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d i a . no *. ne; such other date is she douse m ight deem pedi more e xente—foohis only object was to establish some protection for these aliens, who had been l o ng resident hi this country—who had contra h u ed to increase our capital, to improve our ammo wefts, to advance our skill in arts and arms—who h a their property vested in our fun Os— who had, in taco sub siste nc e nglish habits, and who depindeii for their upoti the stability of our govern lat He submitted to the consideration and can.' d o or of the House, that no danger .could be appre beaded from such me', and that therefore they should s or to pot out of the pale of the constitution. L ea d CASTLEREAGH objected to the skate, nts i n ing that it would be better to reject the Bills a l tog ether, than to adopt it with such a restriction. The powers of the Bill would indeed be quite illu sry, if it were accompanied by such a clause, and if t he House were unwilling to confide in the discre. 'iota ois Majesty's Ministers. it would be as well oithdraw the Bill. He could.‘not; indeed, disco- Ter by what chain of reasoning the Noble Lord had comet° the conclusion, that if the Bill were neces stry at a ll , it was not proper to place any foreigner t o i ler the surveillance of Government, who happened so res ide in this country before 1814, or any given mod. For what should present those who wished ; es ii s noh us, from making such residents the instru ments of their design ? But if any date were fixed— g any li m i t were imposed, his conviction was that it would only serve to encourage foreigners, who might mink p: oper to' make this country the seat of their schinations, and thus defeat the object of the Bill. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH supported his Noble • friend's proposition, which the Noble Lord - very eens i s t e ntly opposed, because nothing short of power without cootroul would satisfy his views. It was, however, the duty of that House to provide that power should not be liable to abuse—that foreign merchants or tradesmen who were settled in this !gentry should not be exposed to the insidious repre sentations of rivals in trade, who might find their way s a s m eary of State ; for in such a case such fu signers would, without a clause of this nature, be' placed in the most defenceless condition. I t was an err, to suppose that this description of foreigners would ever be liable to be employed as the agents or s pies of any foreign intrigue., For such agents or spies were ever more likely to be selected from among profligate natives, who were always to be found in this as in every other country. But with respect to the apprehension of danger, it was notorious that no partizans of Bonaparte had come to this country be ton 18'4, at which date his Noble Friend had ex pressed a disposition to. fix his clause, and therefore no pretence of danger could operate against that clause. There was, however, no gronud for this Bill at all, especially at present. William 111. and George H.. thought no such measure necessary to guard against foreign emissaries, notwithstanding the plots in !soh reigns to Li,aturb this country, Both riously under the sanction of the French. Government. But the alledged necessity of such an extraordinary measure was a libel upon the wisdom of our at:m ates, as weil as upon the principles of our Constitu. non and 1.01W6, which amply provided against every possible danger. The SOLICITOR GENERAL defended the Bill, andobjected to the clause proposed, which, if adopted, void serve to render that Bill quite nugatory. That foreigners long resident among us would be less likely to lend themselves to any' plan for disturbing our peace, he was ready to admit, but be would ask, whether such foreigners would be less fit to execute such a plan, and would it then be wise to refuse Go. woment the power of guarding against the danger? It was idle to suppose that Government could have y disposition to disturb preign merchants, trades men, or artisans. For such persons had never been interrupted since this Bill was enacted, and they well knew, that they were as safe in this country with the Bill, as they could be without it, if they did not mix in any of those improper political schemes, for the promotion of which the French usually employed aegociants. • Sir J. NEWPORT in animadverting upon the Bill, took notice of the standing order at the House of Lords, not to read any naturalization Bill a second time,. unless accompanied by a certificate from the Secretary of State, which he Contended was quite an anomaly in our legislative habits. Lord MILTON said, the arguments of the Ho. nourable and Learned Gentlertion who spoke last but one, were the most extraordinaty he had ever heard. They were, in fact, applicable not only to Aliens, but would be equally applicable if used in support of 4 similar measure being employed against Iris Majesty's nnural born subjects: firm the same principle that t ra r argued e for th e e present Bill, he might alio move Peal of tne Habeas Corphs Act. He (Lord P o ulson_ ) felt no less objection to the argUments of the "hble'Lord, than to those of the Honourable and Lensed Member. He trusted, however, that the Dill,.._ifallowed to pass, would not render us dioiros n et !t dews, because it would only be a temporary o w re: but he was sure thst if such a policy bad Lim generally acted upon in this country, we should 11 " bait had the benefit of so many ingenious to t eig pert settling amongst us as had done so. He , was convinced the measure originated, not so much i n the Government of this country, as in the connet -4'04 which this country now had with foreign Ga.! 7 er nng , The Noble Lord talked about surveil-1 ' an " , a word which he supposed he wished to have lac ine lPe a r ated in our cons ti tutio n ; but it was our hap., p rid boast that no such system of surveillance was hid seen yet its recognised, though no doubt the Noble Lord operations abroad in a variety of ways, ww co in rendered him a friend to such a power being placedir the hands of Government. He should give, tote for the clause of his Noble Friend. Mr. - H- ADDINGTON observed, that what bad stated on a former occasion respecting a teal& ate of naturalization beisig refused upon the appli- 1 , ration of an H onoura bl e Member, was not perfectly Hue had felt it his duty to make inquiries t 'Pu il u ns tn subject, and it appeared that a very discou a o answer had indeed. been given, but not an ab 4rute refusal was Made. On the contrary, an order 1 / 4 $ actually given to grant that certificate, provided "tans doubts were removed. With respect to the ` lll4 e, he certainly felt strong objections to it ; and shoe oho supported it seemed to reason—he antici- NW a cheer at what he was going to say—(dlaugh) " - WO the measure, as if it were the mes,tyressolcal 124 the mat oppressive ever proposed ;o the legisla- __ • • tors of a free catintryfitiVrear, Lir, /reit she Ornee des).—For his own part, he regarded, it is merely a precautionary, proceeding, and could not see how that precaution could be obtained with Mori lenity. The Government had brought it forward only from a sense of duty. • Sir S. ROMILLY,tn reitly!nihe statement of ail Right lion. Gentleman ipon the subject of the natu• ralization certificate, said he had made it his duty,l and he should have thought himself most culpable if he had wit done so, to ascertain the facts of the case, and he would venture to re=state thn an absolute re-• fusal was given—( Hear, hear.) He had much per. sonal respect for the Right Hon. Gentleman, but rally he did not stern to know what' was done in his own office. Mr. H. ADDINGTON explained. What he had stated vu upon the atvhority of his Noble Relation ; and he would leave the Home to judge -whether his Noble Relation was a person likely to state what was not the fact. Mr. WYNN committed the clause. Lord ALTHORPE said, that with a view to conciliate the objections of the'Noble Lord, if pc,- sible, he had amended his clause, and substituted the Ist January 1818, in lien of the Ist January 1818. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he should feel an equal objection to the clause in its amended state. The House then divided, when the numbers were, For the Clause, 33—Against it, 76. Ikon our re-admission into the gallery,- we found Mr. PONcONBY suggesting the further postponement of the discussion, to which Lord CAscrutattoon as sented, and the debate upon the third reading was accordingly adjourned till Thursday. Mr. littoonso brought up the Resolutions of the Committee of Ways and Means, which were seve• rally read and agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be brought in. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock till Thursday. . I THE EVENINQ 'STAR. LONDON. THE TWO THIRTY THOUSAND POUND PRIZES MU:if BE DRAWN I 0-MORROW, AND I r 14 NO r UNLIKELY ONE TICKET MAY GAIN SIX Y THOU AND POUNDS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1816. Kula CtsMILILS IL les roßea,:—Haliday at the Bank; A variety of interesting topics came before Par liament lase tight.—The Report of the Committee on Sir Ronny Pzet.'s Bill respecting the employ ment of children in Manufattories ; a Petition froM the Victuallers of Reading, praying relief from the Monopoly of Public-houses by brewers and Distillers ; the Report of the Committee on the stated Mendicity in the Metropolis ; the Report on the state of Mad. Houses, with a Bill for their better regulation ; a New Silver Coinage ; the Trinity House Funds ; the Debt due by Austria to this Country ; tlia Cs. tholic Question ; the. Poor Laws ; and the Alien Bill. Some of these subjects are deserving of great at tention' indeed ; and none more so than the Poor Laws. That the present system is perhaps the most vicious that could have been devised or acted upon is proved by its effects—by its invariab:e ; unchanged. and turchangeable tendency to produce a.deleasement of moral feeling and character ; an increase of pau perism, idleness and vice; an increase of taxation be. yond all endurance, and the hardening of the heart in consequence. against modest and uncomplaining distress. It is the duty of every person, on such a momentous subject, to point out any fact bearing on the question, and we therefore call on the Memtiers of Parliament to procure proper returns to ascertain the comparative progression of the expense of the poor, before and since the general erection of Workhouses. We can already tell them what will be the result of the examination of this one point: namely, that the expense has gone on in a greatly increasing ratio since maintenance in Workhouses superseded in many parishes the previous practices of giving relief to the poor in their own dwellings.. Many reasons might be assigned for. this : in too Many parishes those who obtain the snperintendance of the poor-rates have an interest in furnishing supplies to the Workhouse, nor can any law prevent this; for the real thieves,' by their predominating influence, elect their own cm tures into office, and through them get the contracts : but the principal cause of the increase of pauperism is the compelling every person who applies for relief , to ' proclaim his reduced circumstances to all his neighbours, to lay dostn the character of an in dependent cotter or housekeeper, and to go into the Workhouse with his childten4 What could be expected from such a' system but the very effects that basic followed t Disgrace a man and his family in the eyes of his parish, and you de stroy the only remaining stimulus left in the mind of poor ignorant people. It is otherwise in Scotland. The distressed poor aretelieved in their own houses, and are generally impressed with a belief that their neighbours are ignorant of their extreme poverty.-0 The effects are what might be expected : they perse., vere in their industrious habits, and never feel easy till they can again maintain themselves without parish aid. In such patishes as have houses for the poor, none are admitted, into them but orphans, or the aged and infirm who are past labour and bass no relatives to take care of them. ;. is -confislently reported that the Duke arGLOW• ragmen will shortly receive the hand of the Princess MARY. The Doke and the Princess aux both in their 41st year. :., FRENCH PA 1B: ' r , We.have received the Paiii,ThlOirs a of &WIT:L., They contain some fa r th er d eta il s the circumstances attending the arrest of Dituna, the chief of the rebels at drennble, and, a biography of the early part of the life of General CHMITIIAND, who WaLidttii shot at Lille for treason. He seems to have merited an iz nominiotis fate many years since, and to have been promoted by BONAPARTa for his crimes' atone. It is evident that he was capable of matting Why' service, however degrading or dishonourable, which the latter tecitiired of him; Dumtk has been conveyed si dlose prisoner to Turin, in• the first instance. He will afterwards be brought to Effie for trial. A great outcry is made in Switferland against the French regicides who have taken up their residence there, all of whom, ai it appears, %idiom leave or licence. They are accused of secretly abetting the , late instil rections at Grenoble. There is a, report at Paris that Lord Wurrwoans succeeds Sir CHARMS STUAUT as British Ambassador there. . COURIER EXTRAORDIgARY OF SUNDAY SIORNINGe The frigfte Galatea, commanded by Count Mon cabria, Capitaine de Maisseau, set out on the 9th of May irons Bastia, to carry the Marquis of Riviere, the new French Ambassador to Constantinople.— This frigate is accompanied by the galley la Biche ; and after fulfilling this mission it will remain upon the Levant station, where the Zephyr and Fawn French gun-brigs have been mime time. ' It is said that Sir Charles Stuart, the British Am-, bassador from England; is appointed Ambassador to the Bing of the Netherlands, and that Lord Whit worth is to replace Sir Charles Stuart at Paris. General Sebastiani returned yesterday to Paris from .London. Count Woronzoff, who commands the Russian 'contingent in France, arrived at Parii yesterday. Lord Fitzroy Somerset is appoin4d Secretary of the rmbassy to the Court of France. GRENOBLE, MAY 21. The following are some details respecting the ar rest of Didier. After the route of his wretched ac eomplices, he wandered among the mountains, fly ing from asylum to asylum, and at length reached the territory of Savoy, accompanied by sever a 1 /if Lis accomplices. Two of them, fathers of families, smitten with remorse, and perceiving the whole dan gerof their situation, saw that their only hope of safety lay in the arrest of the person who had dinged them into their misery : on a request being made by their families to the proper authorities for an amnesty, their pardon was promised. Sion Didier was there_ fore delivered up to the Sardinian gend'arrnerie, who conveyed him to Turin, where he will be first esa- Mined, and then sent to France to meet his fate. BERNE, MAY 14. .The Regicides, who entered Switzerland, several weeks since,, by the way of Geneva and Neuchatel, on their way to Austria, have not yet , left Berne.— Their unlawful stay on our frontiers, the arrests made lately at Geneva of some suspicious foreigners, pre. sents a remarkable coincidence with the late events at Grenoble. Although the exiled French were expressly prohi. bited from passing through the Italian States, several of the Regicides have set off for Italy but it is not yet known to what part they have gone. It is thought that some of them went towards where they endeavoured to raise Dauphiny, which is the frontier of Savoy, and with more success than those who are permitted to reside in the Low Coun tries, and who incessantly labour' in the adjoining Departments. In the North of France the public opinion is excellent. LILLE, MAT t. The Ex-General Chartrand, has just undergone the punishment due to his crimes. After having been degraded, he was shot to-day in the citadel, in presence of the garrison. He eshi. bited the courage of a French soldier familiar with danger. and his last words were an homage rendered to the Commandant of the Division, for his having softened the severity of his duties with grea chit man i y. " Delespaul," he said, to his Rapporteor (Defender or Counsel) at the moment the soldiers were about to 1 1 fire, "!beseech you to assure the biargois de Junta lac that I die fully sensible of all his kindne s s towards me ; and if I had an instant longer to live it would bz devoted to thinking of him."--Jearreal du Nord. The following particulars of General Chartrand were sent us from CarFassonne, where he was born ; but we refrained from publishing them while General Chartrand was under accusation: DOW that he has been shot we give the article. because it explains, to a certain extent. the reason why the King's clemenoy could not, with any justice, be extended to this cri. minal. Chartrand was the son of a journeyman printer at Carcassonne. At the early ,age of twelve, his father bound him as an apprentice trumpeter in the dra.' goons of Noailles, which Wasia garrison at Carcas sonne--tisis was in 1791. Ho left off the business of a trumpeter in 1793, and General Fabre Fens (brother to Fabre d'Eglan. . tine), took him as his groom. but soon dismissed him because he suspected his bone Sty. Shine time afterwards be. entered into a battalion of volunteers, and served in the armies of the Py renees *ad of this Alps. as was in the 4th teginunt, I I • of the line when it maae the canstiiign 6f 8.6V116 Under Moreau : he was then made a corporal, bad st • quarrel with his Serjeant-Major; who was found mgr dered in a bye -place, and Chartrand jvas tried foe his Murder. Ha was sentenced to be ahotkbot wee ral of his coincides frOdi the neighbotirhood of Car t eassonne, succeeded in getsing his sentence changed ;:1 u. dismissal from the army, with what ip Called a yellotas cartridte•lox, a badge of infamy.. He then went home, and mauled by force, and against her will, the daughter of a farmer near Carcassonne. He thencaMe to live at 'and with hi s w if e , w h ere she fell with and When on the point of being delivered, he beat her so unmercifully, thit she Was scarcely able to crawl back to Cued, from whence he had taken her, and where she died in a few days'. Chartrand immediattly absconded, and enrolled him self in the Conuular Guard. He waa so ill liked in this corps, that he did not rise to the rank of corporal , lot a year, and lien only by dint of importunity. In 1307 he was suddenlY made an Officer, and then a General, for some sierra services which he rendered to Bonaparte. Hii pro.: motion chagrined all the officers of the army, for, like all low-born ard illiterate upstarts, he was inso lent to his inferiors, and fawning to his superiors...• Gault* de France. PRIVATE LETTER. . • , . . " Pitts, Mit !I, " The massacre at Nimes begin at the celebration of a Pro. teuant wedding. The parties viers grossly Insetted by mutts. Catholics: blows ensued. The bridegroom fell in the affray— and in the result, upwards of 160 persons, men, women, and children, were massacred .. They also set fire to the house of tLe Protestant in question, by means of wl.ich, several adjoin:tag hour's were destroyed. " A singular report circulatas here relative to the DoehesS.tie St. Leo. It is said, that the authors of the late tamspirsey being in want of money to carry ft into effect, applied to that. Lady for assistance, confiding to her their plans, which of course heki out to her and her family the Most b r i lliant prospects--that the Ducheis, zfter apparently entering into their vkws, to beeont4 i more dm: ouglil7 acquainted with them,wrote to M. tie Cazes,who was turmerly attached to her person, when Queen of Holland,ind over Whom die is known to have preserved much influence,lo inform him, that she had communications to make to him of the highest moment to the State, add that the kind treatment she . had experienced from the King, prescrilwd it a, a duty to her, to give notice of des bus isi a,gitstion against his life and his throbs, —that M. de hazes, in consequence, immediately rent her ye paid ' ports, lls WMCO she secretly came. up to Paris, and discloses! to the Minister all the particulars of the conspiracy. This refir-t, such as I give it, came from the Court, where they cannot but be well informed on the subject ; bat, front the very circ.:n stance of its prweeilins front that source, it may be, and is con** ‘idered at a lahl.:, cu: rived to throw distrust among the N.To. I cre tarty. ti , ..nnpeorle even ga so far as to affirm, that there 1 never haired at.y coimp:racy a 7 all, save that of public opinion, , w;,:cl: is a secret to in.. n re, end that M. de Cares seeint his in. ! 1 fluency no die deciino, inv.iited this conspiraes hmtself, that the service render,:d by its supposed discovery, !night strengthen hi= in his ministettal teat. lo the mean time, the pubic are kept in perpetual paltriest by reunite of every detcript.on. W'aule, on the one hand, dcubt is thrown upon the arrest of Caulanieourt, it is, on the other, confidently asserted. that General Lafayette has a r se b een ar rested ; but the, I have every reason to think untrue. " Both the affair of Grenoble aid that of Nismt:s, ire neer re presented as not being the result of a conspiracy, but as hash originated in accident. Ihe first of these is attributed to the arrest of a highly respected ir.dividtial in the neighbourhood of Grenoble, whom the l'refect had ordered to be secretly averted by the Mayor; the later having refused, the Prefect desired bin to itiviie the indivie.ual in question to the Prefecttre, for the purpose of n.tre expiatiatioo, promising he should not be arrested. This promise was, however, broken; and the peasants of the neighbourhood, informed of the circumstance, presented themselves variously armed, to the number of IY or iSeo, before Grenoble, for the purpose of drnunding his release. They were fired upon, and hence arose the recent sitsittrbance in t kat quarter." A Mail front Brussels arrived to-day, but its cone tents are uninteresting. This morning we r:ceivel Philadelphia Papers to 'the ;oth ult. and Baltitm,re to the 28tii, but they contain no news of intrust. Our private letters from the above places, of the same date, give a melan choly statement of the commercial distresses iu those parts. It appears that an immense quantity of goods bad been ;Inputted, for the Spring trade, in expecte. tion of a great demand ; but the Contrary was the case, as there was no probability of any consumption, in consequence of the great scarcity of money. Fai. lutes ware daily taking place, and the greatest distrust existed among the merchants. Large losses must inevitably accrue, and the intelligence, in general, is of th most gloomy de. cripti.ut. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Marseilles, dated May 18 There was a vi , dent insurrection at Tunis the beginning of this month. The iesingents killed the Bey, and offered the c r o w n to his brother, who refused it ; tearing they ixere be. trayed, they got posiession oh the g.ileta and forts by stratag..m, and spiked the guns; thy then 'took pos: essioa of five cur sirs, armed with ti.nsind twenty guns each, viz, one brig of 20 guns a.nd .17n men, use brig of 18 guns, two scimonets of 16 guns, with v hich they sailed, taking with them a very rich booty and several of the principal people. It is uncertain where they are goue, but it is supposed to Constatt. tinople." esterdity, the Grand Metropolitan Pert Cult had their Anniversary Dinner at the City of London Tavern, Mr. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM in the Chair.—. A great number of Noblemen mid Gentlemen were present to assist at this comntemot ation of the event ful political era in which we live, and several elegant and well-merited eulogiums were pronounced on the high character of the great Statesman, whose loss bag been so universally deplored. morning, about two o'clock, a drea& ful Fire broke out at the sign of the Plough"; Clap= ham Common, which raged with unabated full until the whole of the premises were destroyed : we are 'happy to say, the inmates were,providentially saved; but all the property in the house, and the stables ad joining, have fallen a. prey to the devouring element. The awful hour at which it commenced caused a dreadful sensation in the neighbourhood, many of the inhabitants being compelled to quit their houses watts scarcely any covering. ► CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MAY '29. Although we have had very I;ttle Whe4 since lidofiday, there was an abundant supply for this morning. Irons the quantity ltft unsold t market day. and having but tew buyers sales were very heavy, anJ scarce any WAS disposed of, but prices condos)* as on Monday.—O.us maintain their price, but go off sold rather freely, and at lavt Jay's pttces.—ln Pelf, Beans, and other articics, thcte is lark or no VAllatice. ,