Star. — London, England, 1816-05-24 00:00:00

-- , . , teet i m giOni periecutai. tie lamed t he country against such protects. He could see no h o peUf happiness for England but in peace, and no hope of peace but in consolidation of the power of the present French Government; because he could see no probability of its being succeeded if displaced, by ir e of more general benevolence—(hear, hear.) Mr.. BROUGHAM said, the tone of assertion and accusation on the part of the Noble Lord had excited so me surprise, and fora himself and for his Learned pieta he should disclaim two principles Which the Noble Lerd bad imputed to the advocates of the mo tion. The first principle which lie disclaimed was, hostility to the B unbolts ; and he also disclaimed any idea of recommending a measure which was most alien to sound principles of policy in all times, and 'Ala in these times was most impolitic—a direct in telfeeence in the Government of France, especially as jo religious matters. And he would inform the Noble Lord, if he could be ignorant of it, that it was possi without asserting the propriety of 'such a mea sure, to ask for information respecting the Protestants 401 France, and what steps had been taken in their behalf, and if no steps had been taken, why ? This w,ts the whole amount of his Honourable Friend's in i t o o e—(Hear, hear.) —That motion had been sup: r ooted by a great mass of information -not only bF the facts which his Learned Friend had adduced, but by the ample confirmation of all those painful details 41 the letter which had been read by the Noble Lord. That statement, which had been read in so triune. pelt a tone o. wae to all appearance ably and can didly drawn up. But what was the impression it had made? Had they not been struck at every sen tence. which interlarded the Noble Lord's observa tions, stetted forth a new proof of the accuracy of his Learned Friend's statement. So far was the let. ter from sliming that his Learned Friend had exag gerated, that though it was in more general terms, (perhaps there might have been More details with w hi c h the Noble Lord did not trouble the House), it pre an idea of persecutions even more extensive than Irs Learned Friend had supposed. They were told by that letter that lOW murders had been perpetrated by the armed Catholics on the unarmed Protestants, b es id es a vast number of atrocities which at was tn. Faith! to relate or contemplate.—(Hear, hear.) The statements of the Noble Lord therefore exceeded that of his Learned .Friend. The Noble Lord had referred to Ireland as an example of similar distur bances, especially to Arline!), bet the disturbances. in France must have been infinitely more atrocious in twit . character; for if the Noble Lord had asserted that 1000 murders had been committed in any pert uf Ireland in three months (except dutiog the rebel lion) his information would be more novel than that which he had given respecting France—(Hear.) — As to the alleged outrages of the Protestants agatils° the Catholics, they were committed in a time of civil war, between which State and the condition of Franc., then the Protestants were murdered, there was anon analogy. But let*the matter be put in any way, it came to this, that there had been a state of cuts Age and animosity ; that the last acts of violence had been committ,:sl on the Protestant party_; and that V). Catholics were pror:rted by the perscos in power.— The interference which he should have recnizimern!ed as to these unfortunate yersons was, not by lios,i;i! memorial, .t by friendly representation. A topic vhich the is; Oat, Lotil was fond of rehearing to, was i the letter of the Protestants, and the mischief which he stated it to have produced ; and he had asserted, that these wile worthy individuals, who, though ac• mated by the posest feelings of benevolence, 1 ad l amen/Um:hid instead of goad. The House were n told, that they were not to take that interest in fate of their Protestant brethren in France which sir ancestors had always shewn, because it was now sc , weted that the nr:re they interfered, the more the objccts of their sympathy would be persecuted.— When they were told there were a thousand murders is Once months, they were forbidden to intertese, not bitinse interference was unjust or unpricedented, but because tilt wre ches in authority vrould make their sufTerings ten-told. He was ate:ire that the Berboes had a task of delicacy and difficulty to *form, anJ he sincerely hoped they %mild establish *motives in the respect of their halt-reclaimed People. But was there not gross neglect. among Local Authorities, when not one man d been borne e to justice, not even the infamous 'Crest:4lllon ? Btu leeeeser the motion might be disposed of, the dinusoue could not fail to do good :—for it would thew to the worldrthat in the Home of Commons of England, the persecuted, to whatever nation they lamged, or whatever name they bore, were secure of soapathy ani.suorro oh& persecutors, whatever tank they fell, or by whateirer authority they were clothed, must experience reprobation and resistance. , ..hord BINNING enforce.l the opinion of his 1 u'ol e Friend, that the unhappy disputes in the South of France wi: e politital, n.it religious. The Pro tetint's happened to be Bomillarttits—(hear, from ''lS. Rm• 14)—and therefore they were involved in the cmsequences of those differences. He objected to the motion, bt . cause he was afraid 'hat little hese ht could be derived by the - parties it. France hum fUc sympathy of the Protestants of ii‘Oi country. So far from 'religious bigruiy being an oivrative princi ple in Preece, he was afraid that the evil sprang flora 'that absence of all religious principle which revolutionary principles had engendered. He was from these considerations glad that his Noble Friend Lord Castlereagh) had given a negative to the totion. Mr. W. SMITH said, that it was evident the Go . ment of France had not interfered, as they ought bare done, when the affair of the Department of a Garde had been brought under their considera 'n—(Hear, hear).—The disturbances, though for moment suppressed, were still in spirit alive, and interference of Government would, no-dOubt, be lutery, if it were properly called to the attention the subject. The letters read by the Noble Lord stlevagh) were anonymous—at least he had given name to the House. Sir SANILTEL ROMILLY, in reply, stated, that • h ; a tint mean to press his motion to a division.— . me would say, that there never was more gross Pmce . done to an individual than had been done to by the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Castle ith) in the course of this debate. He confessed !Is at a loss to accosts for the designing and in goal irenstice that had been practised towards by the Noble Lord. (Cries of (inks'', Chair.)— e (Sir &Orme!) disclaimed ed any • " hltaltlOU giving --~-~-_ lOW ~ - k Vat •-• • " • personal 0 MIS Wu) say, that til could nee no milder terms towards a 'person.wito had most unjustly . charges, bhn with an intention of kindling'the eMbers of religious disturbance in the Departments of France. in Paris, and in other quar ters. He could not coolly look at such a misre• presentation withoirt feeling the force of its injusH tice. The Noble Lord might not, perhaps, have in tended it as such, but sure he was, that nothing he (Sir S bad uttered, could have justified the imputation. (gear, hear, hear.) It wits said, that he had indulged in great exaggeration—that .he had given a strong colouring to crude feelings—that his object was to call for a dangerous and unusual na tional interference. Thi.i was not the tact—he had . done no such thing. lie only wanted to follow up interference where it had already taken plate It was sai.l, indeed, that interference would do iuj try rather tit in service, although it was admitted by those who used the expression, by the precedent of aheir own act, that'll() other course of redress was ope:t to the injured party. The only way in which he pro. posed intermediation was by the good offices of our Government Could any one believe he meant nu t other mode of i n t er f erence ? yet b ot h t h e N o bl e L or d s apposite seemed to argue as if he did. He (Sir S. Romilly) was, however, most highly gratified to fiad, that in all that had been saia against his motion, no attempt had been made to no:lets:ate the facts on which his proposiiion was grounded. It was, indeed, broadly Linted. that he.dera-ed his information from the source of dangerous pamphlets. This was not the fact. If the Noble Lord bad read the Report to which he alluded, he must know, that he (Sir S. ltomilly) lad refrained from the recital of tales of horror, of acts of barb irons and estrz...trdinary cruelty. What then had he exaggerated ? He did, indeed, speak of acts of colif-blood atrocity, with that warm indignation which it became a man to feel At the prac• nice of :Itch deeds. He mentioned them, perhaps, with heat, for his temperament denied him the man ner of speaking with coolness of transactions which roused the strong feelings of his heart—(Hesr, hear.) —One man had been shot in his bed—others had been equally massacred—he, however, refrained from entering upon the terrible detail, lest the extreme outrage inflicted might lead to a supposition that the allegations were untrue, becaux the event of their enormity rendered them i probable.(Hear, hear). — During the time that the B'mapartists were at Nismes, no murders had taken place.—(Hear, hoar).—The Noble Lords opposite admit that that was not the case with the Mice of Am!ouleme's stragtling troops in that Province—but they say, the utmost efforts vere usld on tae part of Government to check acrd _suppress die insab:ardination—that Proclamations were issued to that effect. Why, nobody denied this; 'tut were the Proclamations lollowed ty by the punish • ni- nt of the crintin,ls, or did they limit in some para.! graph; of their contents say,, That the Acts :orn plaint...l of ureic in some de, i ree ;ustifiehle ?—( Hear, hear).—When he was said to have atti:suted those outraees to religious persecution, be had been misre pres-mcd. What he had said was this—that they • . because they Were said to be I3onapartims - , atid they were so denominated, because they were Pro ; regains ; the terms, indeed, had brcome synonimous. The written paper read by the iNioNe Lord cotro burated this fact. Ile had further to complain cf the .imputations most unworthily cast upon iiiill,9l raking up flaAting calumnies and niisrepresentations. Nate, w:,:tt :i st.tted ? 'twat in the department of the G tr u e viol • " • ent persecutions had tagen,ptace, which see: unknown in former times—persecutions that had } ar isen from feelings of a rooted kind, that had been ILu tiered to accumulate. Was this misrepresentation? if it were, the Noble Lord himself was the author of it, who, on the question of the Spanish Patriats, had himself gone into the past history of those districts, to accort for the causes of their present insubordi. nation —(Hear, hear,) —and yet he Sir Samuel) was charged with such au intention. Whatever imputt. tinn might be cast upon him for the discharge of his duty, sore he was that the warning voice of the pro. phetic consequences of proceeding with suck proscrip tion would not be raised in vain. Why, it was some consolation to the cause of humanity, that so obsc:ao, an individual as liiinseli:coald bring into public dis. cussion a topic of this kind, and that there was one place at least in Europe where the °pyres:ea could find appeal, and where, so long .as public justice lingered, acts of atrocity could be stamped with in famy, and men who were suffered to go unpunished, visited with public detestation. It was right for Europe to know that there yet existed one place in which the voice of truth could be raised, and that that place was the British House of Commons.— Here the Honourable Gentleman referred to the ex tent of the perlectitions it the departments of the Garde and the Upper Rhone ; and when it was said that those disturbances were only confined to one dis trict, it ought to be considered that that district con mired a population of 160,000 persons— (Hear, hear.) Allusions had been made to the ;jots of 1780; but was there any comparison between the two circum stances ? The riots which disgraced this metropolis were met on the part of Governmeqt by the must prompt opposition. The complaint then was, even by Mr. Burke, who could not be supposed to have a strong leaning for the rioters, that a useless sacrifice of victims had been made; and if the great leader a that tumult had not forfeited his life, the fault was not on the side of Government. Did such a maui. lestation of feeling prevail in France on the part of Government ? Certainly not.—(Hear, hear, hear.) — It was not true that he (Sir Samuel Romilly) bad represented the Government at France in a cruel light; he had iudecd spoken with the same freedom of the public acts of that Government as he would of his own, and he would continue to pursue the same course.— ; But. in doing so. he begged not to be understood as passing a personal censure on the Monarch on the throne of France, who, he believed, wps influenced by the most pure and benevolent motives, but who. I like other Princes, was of course liable to the Wu ' once of bad advisers—(Hear, hear). —Having heard 1 the whole case, of his Majesty's Government,. he would now freely say, that in the instance of the Duke of Wellington's letter his Grace's communica don was most unjustifiable. The Duke bad said, not from his belief, but from his own knowledge, that the Government of France had done all in its power to secure freedom of worship to the Protestants, and its enstoration, where isterropted--414 assertion not bane out by the feet. 'The Honourahle.and Learned Gentleman concluded a most entry& . . .. • . e ;' . . .. .. . ''; . , • 1.. x.a . '.: ' '. , -. 1 iPply s . by statln4, ibit iti Ai jai mesa to Ore the Noma to a dieisms%. He mi. hoirever, in one res. 10;4 glad that he had lOirodU ce d i t , b ecause b e f e l t that no mifebief could relish, from the agitation of the question, and that good mig'it possibly be the ..consequence. One of .the Prefects, in his reply to charges Against him, obsemd, etat•he felt the im, potation more deeply. because it was made in the face of Europe. He (Sir Santini) felt, therefore, that when the whole question was brought forward in the face of Europe, the best results might with con- fidence be anticipated—(Hear, hew). ' Lords BINNING and CASTLEREAGH, in explanation, disavowed aoy imputation upon the Learned Gentleman for bis mode of introducing this motion.—(Hear, hear.) --The question was then put fr.im the Chair, air negatived Wit . l'Al I a division. On the minim or Mr. BANK:U. the iteport of the Commit-'I tee on the : , .'go, MArlde. was, offer A few er4rd, front Mr. I ittM AI EASLEY, ordered to be referred tithe Cennnitzet: ut Supply, on Monday next. , On the inntibn of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the further con siderati9n of the Alien 'Bill was, after a few wutds from Sir J. MACKIN I'O3H, postponed till furs lay neat. On the motion of le CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Report on the soap IIIU was received, and the 1. 4 .3 urd;:red ter a third reading to morrow (this day). *fife Committer on the Acts rele , ing to Coinage wai postponed till Monday, and the House adjourned at a Q„uuter put One o'Llock. THE EVENING SrAIL LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 24., 1816. • PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK - I Reduced 61,1—Cons. mo. ts2l--for opg. 4 per Cent. 76t y-5 per Cert. 94 94—Bonds 41. pr.. Batik Stock 418—Eels.Rills.1%. di,. 2s. pr. In the House of Commons I:st night Mr. *Vann- FORCE stated his intention not to press the Slave Re gistry Ell this Session beyond the first reading : this was in consequence of a declaration of Lord CASTLEREAGH, that ne:ociations were now pending between our Government and other Powers (probably Spain a:id Portt:;,7:11) f:•T• the entire extinction of that infamous tr.:Jlic. His Lot dship also expressed a hope (we wish we cobld see grounds to Lope) that the Colani Legi .14tures would themselves Clint such a measure, and thus relieve Parliament entirely from this delicate question. The Inisiness which we yesterday mentiAled to have been brought before the Meeting of Bank Pro prietors was last announced icy the CHANCEL wit of the EM:IIEQ:ER, and will be discuSsed on Mon day-. C.ln farther pr4.of be wanting to est4blish the tact on which we have often insisted, that the Bank, by the suspension of cash p tyments, has been enabled to reap immense piefits, at the expense of other indi viduals ? Is it not evident then that the Public should participate more largely ►n the benefits of this systein? But of this on a future day. Mr. Seijeant ONSLOW'S Motion for repealing the Usury Laws—that is, to allow every person to make the most profit he can of his money; xi - of any other species of property — was last night withdrawn, after some 4liscusaon. It was argued, that however correct the doctrine maisitained the "Learned Serjeant might be in principle, it would be found highly incon• vement to alter the practice at d e present moment. Sir SAW= Rosnu.v introduced his promised statement of the Protestants in the South of France, and brought forward a great mass of interesting and irriportant matter. The fact of their sufferings and persecutions was not denied by Lord Casmeanacu, tut the Noble Lord attributed it to the intolerance said to have been exercised by the Protestants them selves when possessed of power during the Revolu tion t—and that, since the return of the Boum)Ns they were only enduring, in their turn, the reaction of an outraged political party, for whose crimes the Government of France were by no means accounta ble. Tire motion having been intended solely to give an opportunty for the statement, was not pressed by Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY. • We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday.— They contain an account of some arrests at Bourges, in the very heart of France. It is probable that these arrests are connected with the events at Dijon and Grenoble, from which Bourges is not very far dis tant. In short, every day's intelligence from France, and more particularly from the countries adjoining, announces that France, nom itbstanding the care taken to conceal the circumstances in the. Journals, is in a most perturbed state. The ringleaders of the disaf fected are generally disbanded Officers : COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OF TUESDAY MORNING. Letters from Bourges, dated on the I 45th of May. state :—" Severe measures have been taken•against some factions individuals : seven have been arrebud." A great number of workmen are employed in the Gardens of the Elisee Bourbon and in the interior to render -it worthy of the illustrious personages (the Duke and Duchess de Berri) who are about to in. habit it. A considerable detachment of the Nation.d Guards of Aix and of the envirins have proceeded to Mar seilles, to attend the Duchess de Berri. PARIS, MAY 20. Part of the equipage of the Court will 14 out to. night for Fontainebleau, where the Princes went today. Upwards of a hundred travellers have arrived from England at Calais, on the 15th and 16th inst.' Among the number were Sir Ulysses de Borgh, Aide.cle.Canip to the Doke of WeUingteo, who ,proceeded to Cambray to the General. NAPLEfh APRIL. sr. Moveable eolumns •are being organised by the . • ardirs Of the Minister of Police; in order to ee 7 ll or disperse the bands of brigands 'ph.) hewer about is the provinces. The Military Comma:tants must deliver up the Chiefs of the Brigands, dead or alive, in fifteen - days,after the publication of the list of theit names which shall be sent to them. Last week a single individual only died in the hot pitals of Rosa, although nineteen patients Were ad knitted. The pacigcatiOn with the Dey of Algiers and the Regency of Tunis, has given great satisfaction here. We expect a similar happy result to our negotiations with the Regency of Tr poli. • At a late hour last night a Dutch Mal arrived.•— An the French included irr the Royal Ordinance the 24. th of.lnly, have beea oreered to quit Brussels ; among whom are General EZCELMANS, and one of BONAPARTE'S Licencers of the cress, late (Directew. Generale de la Libraire) at Eat. rm. There, as else. where, there have been Turnouts of ext.nded conspi. racy having been proved to exist in France ; with re. eats of actual insurrections M Picardy, extending to Laon, and into Chimpaig le, but the latter weio known to be false when the Mail came away. This morning we received a farther supply Du•ch Pap.rs. They present various details, of A complexion similar to what we have stated above, and we can hardly donbt that dissatisfied individuals have been as active, in various quarters, as their circumstances and Means wculd permit, to agitate the public mind, and by the distraction thus excited to increase the chances of being .able to disturb the public quiet of Furope, but especially in France. The subjoined extract may serve as a specimen : LEYDEN . , MAY 21. A private letter from Paris, of the 10th, gives us the following details: / 6 4 The Agents of the Police had seen an individual, I apparently of an inietior cla return home in the I rue de 14 Harpe, at four o'clock in the morning : he was followed, and'he was seen to go, at nine o'clock in the evening, into an obscure hotel in the rue ' Rochechouart, where he constantly passed the night. At the end of .a fortnight he was arrested, with all the persons who met there. They were far the mast part disbanded officers, %Oil had been already pointed out to the Police. Their interrogatories have led to New discoveries—Presses have been seized, and sedt. tious Proclamations, tending to the subversion of the existing GoVernment. It is affirmed that the arrest Of Benoit, and of the Chevalier de St. Aignatt, in Switzerland, has thrown new and unexpected light upon the affair. It is believed new, that it is only a branch of a very extensive pint, in which are impli. cated Fouche, at Dresden; Carnot, at Warsaw; Ex. celmans, in the Luw Countries; and Sonic, at Dus seldorff. • Large stuns of mosey have been afreactr se:ted." New York Papers of the :19th April, Easton of the 25thi and Quebec of the 15th, arrived this morning. Sir GORDON DRUMMOND, by a proclantition, has re. stored the trade between Lower Canada and the United States. The Tariff Bill has not yet finally gone through the Amercan Senate. ••••••••=momposmosom• •••••• Last night, alarming advice was received at Imrd Stowe it's 03iEe of a desperate insurrection b tying broken out in the Isle of Ely ; that an immense body of armed Fen-men had attacked the house of the Rev. Mr.Vactm, a Magistrate, resident at Little Newport. which they destroyed, after despoiling it of its most valuable property, having brutally turned Mrs. VA. MEL and her daughters out of the house, to seek tut asylum at tsselve o'clock, on Wednesday night. Filte.--The fire which broke out on WednesdAy evening, has not damaged thy English Opera House, though it was in imminent danger. Three adjoining old hciuses. the property of Mr. Alttinl.n t were en• tirely destroyed, as also a quantity of furniture in. tended for the new Theatre, with some splendid de. corations, the greed curtain, &c. PLYUOUTII, MAY 22.—Came in his Majesty's ship Hew, from Portsmouth. Sailed the FIEBRUS frigate, to the Westward; SPA RROWHAWIC sloop of war, for Portsmouth ; and the Prince Edward transport, for Newfoundland.—Wind E. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 23.—N0 arrivals. Stilled his Majesty's ship Mtn&Toz on a cruize.—Wind N.N.E. Deem, MAY 23.—Came down tom Sheerness the rli.cat. sloop of war, and remains in the Down s w i t h his Majesty's ships CANYMEPt and RAYrLESNAKE. , --.. Came down from the River and sailed the Hero, MURPHY, for Bahia. Doves, MAY 23.—Prince and Princess EsrEtt- MAZY and suite, landed here yesterday from Calais, and this morning set off for town. Sailed last rii!lit the Lord Sidmouth packet, Capt. PEAKCWICII. With a mail and passengers for Ostend; also, this morning the Lord Duncan packet, with two mails and paSWII• gers for Calais ; and the King George passage vessel with passengers.—Arrived list night from Calais, in three transports, about 400 men 'of different Regi.. meets, unlit for service. InoursT.—An Inquest was last Menial at Ehckwall, on the body of Mullins, a mar, whose death was nccaltuned by his head being caught betwrm the orain•yard and port hole, while assisting in loWering the former.—Acciden:al COlthi-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MAY st 4. Nearly at the close of Wednesday's Mat ket, there was a brisk demand for Wheat, and a tolerably large quantity wai-cleared off; and having many buyers this morning, salei were readily effected at an advance of full 2s. per quarter on Monday's prices. Barley is Is. per quarter dearer. In Peas, Beans, and Oata, there is little or no alteration. BM&HPIELD MARKET, MAY 24. Beef . 4s 03 to Ss 2d ot i Vito) Od to 841 Mutton 4v-led to Si 41d Ptitt 0.1 so Ss 04 kends • es to Ts ad. Beasts 740—Stoep and STRA W, Lambs s,ssa PER LOAD. —r-alsaseso—, HAY AND Meadow Hai 41 Os to a es 1 own a es to 61 es, Straw all' 141 so 411 371 ,