Star. — London, England, 1816-03-15 00:00:00

I I. a ts ef xr to is 11.1, prean lion k might ke proper to matte, it would be for t he House to consider on going into a Com. • e e on the Message. In deciding on this cities. be doubted not they would mark their attach. t to the Royal Family by uniting that Übe - mitt' , ids became the character of the country and the dour of the Crown, with that due attention twi ny which ought never to' be lost sight of in arlianient. There was only one consideration w hi c h e w ould press on them, as that which he was an xious they would keep particularly in view. He epe d that in making a provision suitable to the high s i tuat ion of the parties, it would be so framed, on d u i int settlement in life, as to guard against the ty of recurring to the liberality of Parliament lau d t ime. He then moved that an humble and aesife i a ddress should be presented to his Royal a i ms the Prince Regent, to convey to him the, t ab s o f that House for his most gracious Message _ the su bj e ct of the intended marriage cif the Prot ', M ete Charlotte of Wales, with George Fre. s"''. Lo o s Prince of Saze Cobourg, of Sallfeld ; cler : fuela their entire satisfaction at the alliance to z te t as o be formed with a Protest tnt Prince of so it a family ; an alliance which, while it pro., m i n d to increase the happiness of his, Royal" High. ; ese ' die Prince Regent, and• of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, promised also to prove ia j with the best' interests of the country. To o we him that that House would immediately pro.. ad to the consideration of his :twit gracious Mes. fa r and to make such a provision as should mark Or just sense of the great and eminent virtues of ber Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, and he N imble to the honour and dignity of the Royal Fat roily and the nation. (Loud Cliseringfrom all Avis of thrlfsair.) The question was put on the Address, and carried se, car. The Message was ordered to he referred to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. neenoNs IN IRELAND. Mr. DOMINICK BROWN moved for leave to king in a Bill to limit the duration of polls for the election of Members et Parliament in Ireland, and for other regulations touching the return of hlembeas to parliament. , He cumplained much of the clamour that bad been raised against this Oil, and particu. fall of the conduc t of a gallant General ( Mathew), ',belted moved that the House should be called over, hinder to prevent the introduction of the Bill on a tamer night. Mr. rittr . TlE seconded the motion. Sir F. FLOOD should not oppose the Bill in the fun instance, but he did not pledge himself to any line in a farther stage of the business. Sir J. NEWPOIa would not object to the princi ple of the Bill, as he felt that polls had been otten cted to an injurious length in behind. In teed i lw e o llelf knew one instance where A pail of less than 1000 freeholders bad been spun out fur 18 days. Bur at the same time, he feared that such inteitereuce as the Bill contemplated would be dangerous to the freedomot election, without stronger provisions against the powers of Returning Officers than existed at pre. sent; as, without sonic provisions of the kind,;t would beta the power of Sheriffs and Returning Officers to return the candidate they chose. Thus the power of election would be entirely in the hands of Govern. eient. When also it was • considered that the ex penses of petitioning the House against undue elec- Isms were so exceediiiAly great, as that no man of middling property could afford them, the Housee iheuld be very cautions in committing any greater power than already existed to Returning o.llcers. Mr. V..FITZGER ALD considered the object in riew most desirable, it the provisions of the Bill were degnate to the attainment of that object. He begged lave to say, he only leaned to the principle of the 1;11, without giving any opinion on the provisions till *IT should come before the House. Mr. BLAKE complained of the return of the free -1 Mfrs of the City and County of Galway that had Ws laid before the House List sessien, as not sutli- ' dy full or accurate. LotdCASTLEREAGH said there were two evils ; y to be avoided by this Bill : the first was the r of false returns, and the second tile injurious Irotraction of elections. He could speak from his Inexperience of the great length to which elections !tellable to be pretiacted Ireland. When be %tint returned to Parliament, the election was spun aim the Ist of May to the 24th of July. He did kftreamit himself to any opinion with respect to the Pilau of the Bili, but its principle deserved the gre"eittention. was ignorant of the Election Laws Invalid, and so, he believed, were mist of thi a ' Members. He thought, therefore, that the loud readi ng of the Bill ought to be postponed till Ifte Easter, when the Irish Members would b. pr,t- All seemed to have but one feeling on this sub. ,and one object in view, and he thought it a fa ble opportunity to assimilate the Election Laws both countries. Mr. V. FITZGERALD concurred in thinking the postponement of the second reading of the ~illtill after Easter, when the Irish Members would anid, was expedient. Aker some farther conversation between Mr. Tien :Mr. VEZZY FITZGERALD, Mr. D. BROWNE, and 'GIN NEWPORT, le.tve was given. b lit. BLAKE m ove d t h a t there be laid before the font a return of the fort y shillings Freeholders of %Town and County of Galway, on the 25th Fe- Ilttry, 1815. HE LSTON EL ECTION. 1 (r• SWANN moved !or le . Ave to bring in a Bill / awe the putity of Election in the B.,rottsh cf 11 r. PRESTON cr:ntended, that there was-rot A gh in the kingdom freer from con upticn than 0 11. There was no borough under patronage in kingdom in which more undue influence WAS not „e„d• Why, thesefore, begin .with Helstoil If H Gentleman bronrYht in a Bill for the purity Election in. all t;:e Boroughs of Cornwall,- he Id pledge him se lf to g i ve h im e very assistance in hi slnwer. There w ere ot h er B o roughs with Which lit Honourable Gen:l::•maii could more propc: ly be t% But he thougl:t there was something invidious 'Particularising Helston. 2 4 - SWANN was actuated by no private or party gin the butinesa t He had the honour to be re (or a Borough containing 360 voters, aid not Tbq 801 l was founded on a Report I Coolou'uee o am—House. That Committee . : 'hart fOend that 4e election, in Helstrin Writ In the hands of the 'rosin Clerk Wind two in,hers:.. ; ElV was himself totally rineamrected with that Mit i but having been nominee to toe committee, hie was re. quested to draw up a - Bill on the subject. `Should, however, the sense of the Entise appear to be against the Bill, herhould be gild to withdraw it, and tit he treed from a very troublesome duty ; but tilt then he should persevere in what be conceived' duty bound :him to. • After v. few words trout Mr. Pnezrov, leave was given. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the, Mutiny Bill, which %vas read a first and second time, and ordered tn be read a third time on Monday. Mr. D. BROWNS brought up a Bill to limit the duration of Polls for the election of Members of Par. liament in Ireland, which wag read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. A return wss ordered of the vames of cutters and vessels under the Board of Excise, with the seizures made by them in 1815. BANK OF ENGLAND. Mr. GRENFELL wished to kno..v whether h Was the wish of the Right Hotirmrahle Gentleman (the Chancellor of the - Exchcceiti), that he should post pone his motion relitive io the 13.m1; of England? The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER thought the Honourable Gentlonan had better pro ceed with his motion, as, from the Meat press of public business, expedition was more necessary at present than usual. Mr. GRENFELL had not intended to proceed with the bisiliess this nigfit, an,l therefore he would 'isave little more ro do at present than to submit to the House certain propositions whit!' he held in his hand. He had not proposed' to trouble the House with many itservations on the _subitct, as he could not have expected any opposition. But now as lie understood that the Chancellor Of the Exchequer would oppose his motion, he should beg leave Ye make one or two observations on the subj:cy, re serving AO himself the opportunity of making such ob3;rvations.as 11 should think proper on -the other propositions, which he should have the honour to submit to the House, on a future ccc isi.4l. The propositions which he should stibinit to-night were the s:tme as the Resolutions which he had iai,t before the House last Session. l'hey metely contained facts and accounts which were mov•- - ii for last Session, but not laid before the House till so late a petiod, that the discussion of them.had been deterred to an early period of this Session. He should not at present do any more in tie bujoess than lay tfloe propositions before the House previous to the oils of next month, when all the agreements relative to those facts and accounts would nave expired. He thou ;tit the House was bound in duty to the Pu'olic to go into an inquiry on tin! subject. Lie had wade a motion to this effect last Session, but that motion was negatived, not However nitilsit Willa: that the cIITCt was not worthy of inquiry, but that the mode in which it was sought was not the best. At the present moment of unex ampled distress, the House and the Public ought to look to toe Bank fur warty millions to be applied to the service of the State. Ile was at a loss to know on what grounds the Batik ..f England could possibly object to Resolutions containing a dry statement of tact, and accounts, unless, as they had done fur the last 2d years, they wished to involve their conduct in tnystAty and concealment. But it the Bank did object to these Resolutions, it would Knee that there was something in their conduct and transactions which would not bear investigation. The Honourable Gentleman then rend his first Resolution. Th. CHANCELLOR. of - the EXCHEQUER did not think that any iiives:igvion into this Subject was now necessary, and theretore he should move the' Order of the Day. Mr. iII:ANDY was clearly of opinion, that the Chancellor of the Exclieqiier was completely under the power and lash of the Bank, and that he must be without a sixpence in his pucker, unless the Bank chose to a2vai:ce him money. This was a stale ot degradation unworthy of a Member of the House ot Commons, and it was indeed a most pitiable sittia. tion for a Chancellor of the Exchequer to be placed in. It was just as if a man were to leave £lOO in the hands ot his hanker, and when he asked tor it, should be told he must not lw.ve it iinleis lie paid 5 per cent. into est for his own money. Mr. S. THORNTON conceived, that the House ought not to interfere' in the conccrns.et the /Sauk, who were trustees for their proprietors. Sir-JOHN NEWI'OR I' observed, that the Bank Directors w ere always adverte' to Committees, be cause when they dealt with blinisters, they acted as, masters ; but when with Committees, they met their equals. He strongly nbjected to this dependance of the Government on the Bulk Directors, who profited by the public distress. He deprecated this power on the part of any Chartered Company, by which it overawed the Government. He deprecated the prac tice of any Chartered Company Mixing in political questions, by which it was enabled. to exercise an un due and dangerous in fl uence. He recollected that in 1806, the Bank of England refused to accommo date the Government, merely because the Admini stration of that day was not palatable to the Bank.— They refused an application for making an inter change et money between England and Ireland, al though it was demonstrated that no inconvenience could result. This was done merely out of dislike to the Administration. Mr. THORNTON declared, he never knew any instance on the part of the Bank, of partiality or pre judice towards any Administration. . Lord CASTLEREAGH conceived, that the Cell. sure thrown out against the Bank was very harsh; and so far as he understood, there was no public body that ever conducted itself on more equitable 1 principles than tire Bank of England. He confessed, it he were a Bank DU-Lew, he should hesitate before he exehanfted English for Irish notes. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. NEW roRT replied, drat the proposal was not her an exchange et dotes, but for facilitating the transfer of money between one country and the other on the best securities, and in. a manner which could not have put the Bank to the slightest inconvenience. Mr..BA RING said, he must differ in one point• ,from hit /tight Hon. Friend.—that of the Bank Di,- recteis having been influenced by -political partiili. tics. If such had existed, he sliostial be vnworthy -of a seat in that Plrection ; and he declared he never knevi an instance •of the kilia. As to rousing :1w accommodation alluded to, it was merely a tviall to . , • aYbid 'an Trish cannection wltich did not properly coma within the ptuvince of tlie Boni. There were oertainly balances in the hands of the Bank; they amounted to about five millions ; but fiir these sum ' cient cotnparation had been made„; :sad was it to he said, that this great body, as the bankers oldie Pub. lic e *ere to give np all their depositsi Besides, the Bank Fully compensated the public by lending throe millinns without inter:v. . . Mr. HAMMERSLEY conceived that great dam. ger would arise fiom those Fontiou ai att irks on the Bank, which bad produced convenient advantages to the Public. The Directors were Men. of large pro perty, and of the highest respectablitv and if such attacks as these should have the eS;et of driviny , them from their situations, the Direction might fall into the handy of inferior persons, and the country might be ruined. The Bank was a private establish ment, and as inch it afforded the'greatest accomml dation to the Pia!die. What the Busk had Lady done was a positive gratuity : Thi s b us i ness cou ld never be cl-ne by private bankers : the latter would never run the risk of issuing tokens or affording other accommodations to the Public. Mr. FORBES ohserved, that if the Hon. Gentle man had beers making an attack, it was at least dis interested. If the Chancellor of the Etcher:per did not avail himself of the opening that was off.aed to 'avoid the Property Tax, he would have more to an swer for than he seemed to be aware of. Mr. SWAN conceived, that the Bank Stock Pro prietors had actod with great liberality, and did not think there was any ground for an inquiry into their Mr. MARRYATT was persuaded the Bank was deriving too many advantages, and that an inquiry must !be ptoductive of great benefit to the country. Mr. GR EN FELL !poke in reply. He denied that the pu'olic had the power of withdrawing their ba lances from the Bank, because there was •a special clause to prohibit such a thing from being done, in the Bill by which the Bank was to lend six millions to' the public. In the time of Mr. Pitt, the balances were only three millions; but if he had even antici. pated that. they Cvould amount to six millions, he would have done something to prevent such an abuse. There was now in the hands of the Bank no less than nine millions, which was the property of tne public, and in these times of general distress it was fit the public should derive the b.:nefit of this money. Sir JOHN NEWPORT hoped that if his Ho nourable Ft iend ,viuld not carry the Resolutions to-day, he would bring them forward from time to time, because he thoug:it they ought to be entered lon the Journals. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCI4EQUER observed, that the Honourable tleadJa: would be at liberty to move the ites!!utionS after the Orders of the Day had been gon throat h. The Amendment for do: Order of the Day was then put, and cart .ed. The otig•nal motion was of cousse negatived. ALIERICAN INTERCOURSE. The Report of the Committee on American Inter course was brought up ; agreed to ; and on the motion that a, Bill he brought in— Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he did not object to this measure; but he wishcd the House to recollect, with what clamour Gentknien on the other side had formerly declared that they :should protect the ship ping interevs of this kingdom. Mr. ROBINSON s Ili, the great object and ad vantage of this measure was, that it woald promote an amicable intercourse between this country and the United States America. Mr. ROSE spoke to the same cfrect. Mr. BARING highly approved of the Treaty: The Biil WAS then Grdered to be brought in. BANE ADVANCE BILL. The iintise resolved itbell into a Committee on the Bank Adv:ince Bil. On the clause that 4 per cent. orcrest should be paid on the six millions borrowed iroin the Bank, Mr. GRENFELL repeated his former statement, and proposed as an Amendment, that no interebt should be allowed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the effect of such an amendment would be a new arrangement with the Bark, and he put it to the Honourable Gent'ennui, whether such a measure could be advisable at the prt sent moment? The bar gain now entered into was more advantageous than any which lad been made at a former period, and OE public could not expect better terms now than in other times. Mr. 'I I IERNEY said, the murder was now out. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of making a bargain which it might be in the power of that House to rescind, made his bargain, and then said, " You must not now undo it, because that would throw the whole system of finance into confusion." But we were bound to save the public ,11240,000 if possible ; and though the Bank played well at the game of brag, he trusted we should prove thestronger party. The Bank would not throw away £2OOO because they could not get £340,000. He (Mr. T ) believed that there never was such a bargain as that now made, he thought that the Chancellor, with all his goodness of heart, lamented in reality at having been so gulled, and be called on his candour so con fess that he had been imposed r•n. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER dexied thalo he had been imposed on, or had ia any way disgraced himself f and urain,tained that the Right Hon. Gentleman's argument proceeded en tirely on a fallacy. Mr. BARING remarked on what appeared to him the extravagance of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Grenfell), in contending that the Bank, in return Lor a deposit of five millions, was to make an advance of nine ma. liens to the public. Estimating the public balance it eleven millions, he would assert that at the re newal of the Charter the consideration of six millions of these 'balances, then formed the general average. This consideration consisted in the loan of three mil. lions to the public, for a certain period, without line rest, and in the Bank lending the whole of their capi tal of ten millions cu the public, at an interest of three per cent. He would assert s therefore, that there were now only five millions of Balances tor which the public were entitled to any consideration, and this appeared to him amply provided for by the present Bill. Indeed, in his situation of a Bank Direct°. ,he thought that an extremely hard bargain had been driven with the Batik, and, as a Member of that _...., J H Home, that a very favoattile one had been rna''e for the country. Mr. BAN KES, nn the contrary, th nein th at ttle course pursed by his Right H Friend, ti Chaneelinr of the Etcheotter, had hope very iinfa, rourable to the pnSlic. He haul no ..I..uht Alt his good statute had been impsed -upon. in this bargain, and thought that. ,it ar, inters'st of two p. r cent. had been niferrd to the Rink, they wnsild have.assented to it. His .iwn vie,4 was, that isektmeadment to that effect sh.naill be ma le..and he n' tight possibly snake a motion to tit It effect on'the brieginie up•of the re. port.- In the mean time lie slinuld he clad km* what his Right . Honourable Friend ronnced to do resp-cting the unclaimed dividends in the bands of the Wank ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE'.2UER stoical, that what struck him as expedient on that subject. would be to p a y o ver t h e di vi d en d, uncla i med for a cocain p-riod, into the bands of 'tile .Commis. sinners for the reduction of the National Debt, to be by then] applied to th tt object—they at t!‘e same time. being liable to pay thlse dividends.to such persons as stionid make good their claims. it might be cnissi d•aed also, whether after a certain prescribed period, these unclaimed dividends might not be regarded as esche its to the country He the ught, however, that these dividends slsoul.f not be taken, unless t!.ey' had remained unclaimed during four Trailers. In esti. mating the amount of these dividenes. it should be . considered ah.,t Cie returns before the House included all the unclaimed dividends up to the end of the cur rent quarter. Mr. TIERNEY trusted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer KuuLl claim in an authoritative manuer the dividends which remained in the hands of the 13411 k. In the present aspect of the sentiments of the Committee,' he would recommend to :is Honourable Friend (Mr. Grenfell) to widsdraw his motion, And propose two pee cent. instead of fuse, on the prin. ciple of taking the half when he could not get the whole. Mr. S. THORNTON trusted that due care would be taken to secure immediate payment • of dividends to which, though unclaimed fora while, claims might ultimately be ea:a Wished, otherwise some alarm might be excited. He knew an instance the other day of nineteen years dividends having bow paid nn a trust, since which they had all that time been unclaimed. Mr. SWAN was convinced,' tliat if two per cent. were inserted' in the Bali instead of four, not Ali the • power of the Direcors, not all the influence of Mi nisters, would induce the Bulk Proptimirs to accept of it. . • • Mr. GRENFELL withdrew his motion, after which Mr. B,►4KE; proposed that three per e.-ot. should be inserted instead offoir, which war tieg.itived vvithuut The dther cittwes of• the Bill were L!.:•n vine through, and the Report was,ordered• co be :cceived to• mor row. Mr. NEY =vet! fn. a Return of the E.timates of the D'epartmems of t.ord Steward and Lord Chattily n , f. r :ye year SlSt ?.; and al,o for an Account tqw the A .00,0 • ar..• ted to h;s M4:sty last year, and not fornOry part of the oreioary Civil Liit, had lied applied.—Ordered • • . '1 L.- second reading of BMSVartoft! " Pistody postponed to Monday. Tile Heil:ten Elecion Bill was read a srst and seem' I Om*, and ordered, to be prittud, and read a third thus on ,bis day se'nnlght. Mr. 1.U31-lING I'ON brouiht up an . itecount of the number of the Coilec the ASJUICLI taxes is Scotland. Aufeutoc4l at l'welve o'Clock, • A Cott t of C.,rnmon Council was held on Wednee. day at Guildhall. The Navigation Committee pre. seated a meson .or opposing theSouthwark 8-idge Bill an the House -1 Lords. which was read And 'aired to. The Committee for General Purposes delivoled in a report, recommending 5U guhit as to be subscribed as the gift of the Court, in aid of toe luads -I the London Auxiliary National School, upon veli.ch very long discussion took place,. an-1 an amendment being made that £2OO only should be siibsc!ibed, was carried. The Court resolved, that a piece of Plate, of the value of 150 guineas, should be presented to Jo. arms Lauti and Joust REAY, Esq-s. the late Slit.rdis. in consequence of their having held over that i;t ice much beyond the usual period. Mr. %Varna! or gave notice, that he should at the next Court make a motion that a Petition be presented to the House of Lords against the Property 'PAX, and the immense Militia., Establishment, in time of peace. Boxisto—One of the bravest specimens of snanheind witnessed for many years took ;:lace yesterday at Conhe Warren, in a '24 feet squire, for a subscription purse of ten guineas, hetweea Oliver's Black, for whom there is at present no - other name, Lod Bieuier, the Navigator. Round 1. The Platt made play, and was rot:ragetsusly re. ceived ; a resolute rally followed, and the N IvigatGr went Aiwa, but neither had rec...ived auy material injory . a A rally, in which the Black had the best of hitting. Fe. veral severe blows were exchanged, and the Black Ned at the mouth. Each rail ed until the Navigator we, thrown, and strength was evidently on the side of the Black, who wa, backLd at tt, to I. 3. The Black, with some impetuocity, want in and rallied, ptid he Whs most manfully tecsived. A severe rally tiliuseed, and t'.e Black ulthuately ran hi, adversary Juwn undo: the rope,. 4. A6other severe round, and the Navigator nhule some good returns, but his action was awkward, and Ni a cluse the Black again 'hewed seperior month. 5. After a smart rally Botcher hit down his adversary ; but it was scarcely a blow w , ich would have &cid:4 the pulm. 6. 'I he Black much fait-fought dtis man in this rotind, but many severe blows v....re exchangea:, aid the Naolga:or m 14/1• from tenirorary weakness received a hit in going down..--6 to 2 on the Black. 7. In this round the Navigator turned the fighting, an! after both had exhausted thetnae•ves bv tinting, the black was ctrafily knocked down by a hi.Ew in the ducat-6 to lon the,Blat.it. Thu ntcit determined fighting tollowed in the hex( *lateen rounds, with considerable fluctuation. 24. Ancdh.ir haul-fought round; hut here It .was evident, however the Navigator's game might prutrac• the Apt. he h. 1.1 no chance of winning bin by accident, as the Wads pes.ee , oed equal game, more strength, best wind, and soma out hitt him. Nin e teen oth. r rountiN however. were Lravtly c4usede.l, the Navi4ator's mettle often. 1 7410 hint tensi-mry advantages; but he was at length taken off the ground by direction of the umpires, or another round or two :ingot have proved dangerous. In the 39th round the Black had his adversary smpeuded upon the ropes, and he wailed away with tylifted brills when he Might have settled the business in one hit: The same thing rc curred on another occasion in the fight, when the same geueri.i.s feelitig was sitewn; not by a white, bat by a !stuck strait , trained to our itat;ona) sports.— Ihe battle tasted 4/ minutes, anti 13 rounds were fought. A more bravely contested battle never was fought, nor was tb.r.- a stop attempted. The black is the itio.t cora. ; l.,te t:.4 ever WV', and lit relied on his strength a. 1.1 tiaf ure. '1 ate navi gator is a selkaUght fighter never excelled. I.ike a wbool:Fiay, ambitious of Mine, be has been kening among the tratetaity of navigators until he has go' completely master of natural fniliting, and with the assietance of science it would be &Scale Cu mid above one or two in life Loudon ring who could he at him. Ike black has challenged any white, anal sine will lead so some apart • .. • L--!..1. ; i - J ♦ _. ~~ I