Star. — London, England, 1818-06-03 00:00:00

emetimes to cornea their appearance by legal pro ,• s . 'This ,hewed how inapplicable this lumber of rid au thorities was on this question-4 Hear, hear.) when sifted to the bottom the authorities were merely :retinal. As to universal suffrage, the Honourable „ v eer Was much more pushed to produce an aueho y, His arguments from the King's Speeches were itit more strained and flimsy than these from ancient retie The words on which he founded the erg*. rvt , were the s e-44 all freeholders summoned to the etert, and others," and it was alleged that the words, aed others," included the whole population. If so, ..net were the ancient Acts et verbose as those of the r:eseat thy, for here were eight words where one was edficient. The arguments on the words pleb .e, vulgar, raireeney, commonalty, were equally futile. His Honourable Friend made very light of riots and tu malts as likely to occur if elections were more fre eeent and suffrage extended, and the Honourable Baronet cited Westminster, saying, that the elections there were conducted as quietly as the proceedings at a parish vestry. But the Honourable Baronet for got that no man dared venture to contend for the representation of Westminster. He must tender his tribute of applause to the citizens of Westminster, for re-electing the Noble Lord (Cochrane) after his expulsion from that House. He confined his praise, however, entirely to the motive which he believed iefiuencel them in that proceeding, and which was their resentment of the infamous sentence, including the punishment of the pillory, which the Court of flees Beach had passed Upon him, and but for which sentence the Noble Lord would probably not have been re elected—( Hear Ater, hear).— lie then charged the Honourable reelected—( Hear, with being as inconsistent as his opponents ; for whilst he pre y:ad:4l to draw no line to limit the elective franchise, he in fact drew one, but a little lower down than the rest. Why, for instance, did he wish to exclude men under 21 years of age, and do, as well as the friends of his plan, a cruel and incredible injury to the in fees of the nation. Had not many men distinguished themselves in arts, sciences, politics, nay within the very walls of this House, before they had attained that age? Why then were they to ise robbed of the .eritt of election ? There was a still more interesting las, the pride and ornament of society, whose ceirits were enlightened, and whose judgment was g ood, though perhaps liable to be lea away by was that c'ass to be omitted, and injured by the Hdaourable Baronet's plan? He then alluded to the opinion published by Mr. Bentham, tt whose private character, and studious researches, he raid a tribute of praise, but who seemed to have studied books more attentively than men.— This Gentleman was the only taw, consistent, and undaunted Reformer, for he wouli admit to the elec tive suffrage, not only all men and all women, but even all persons of unsound mind, on the ground that they could do no harm. Ile conceived it the duty of every honest and wise man to make a stand -ling such wild theories. Mr. Fox, as Chairman, one occasion, signed his name to a set of Resolu ts, one of which was for Universal Suffrage. He is met by Mr. Burke, who observed to him—" You re signed your name to Universal Suffrage, but, ievc me, you will soon be beaten by the—" and oftener if need be!" He was aware that many Gen tlemen did not understand whit was meant by this iervaticri, but it meant to convey, that if he were advocate Annual Parliaments or Universal Suf- Lye, o•r the ground of former Acts, which said that Pa:li.unents were to be held at stated times, " and texer 't need br," there would be no end to these in • ,:vaticins, and that one concession would only . lead to theclaimofanother—(lkar, from Me .11inistertal side.) take one step would only be giving those men a foundation for asking for another—(hear, hear, hear, 11;1 the more side,) till you must bid for their favour a base dross of compliance and submission, going ...far as the most ignorant or most unprincipled of them demanded, or if you wished to be quite sure of them, going one step farther--(hear,hear,-h . ear : froni is none side.) He assured th,,House that i f his opt :Jim was at all altered on the subject of Parliamen tary Reform, the change was not occasioned by any interest of a personal nature. It was impossible that :could be benefited by it, for he retained too many points of difference of opinion, even on this very sub ject, not to separate him from any thing likely to gratify ambition or love of power. He was too great a friend to moderate Reform and Triennial Parlia ments, to let the little which he had given up fill up the difference which still subsisted between him and those who denied the necessity of reforming those abuses which he passed his life in endeavouring to re- , more. He then repelled the assertion made by the Honourable Baroner, that the Revolution of 1688 had produced a bill of fare, but no dinner—(hear.) le‘ars it nothing to have ousted from this country an arb•trary power, supported by a biggotted church ? i , ts the demolition of Papacy nothing ? Ile con :iuded by expressing his sincere belief that his 110. nonrable Friend's motion was not consistent with the :rue spirit of the Constitution and that of the age, nor the present state of society. He conceived, at the tame time, that it was necessary, wherever flaws ap rared, to remove them within the limits which he tad mentioned. And he vras equally opposed to those who denied all reform, as to these who wished '.'ry thing to be surrendered—(bees, hear). :Ir. PARNELL maintair.ed that the references aile by the Honourable Baronet to the past were 'whilst the inferencei drawn by the Honourable .;I Learned Gentleman were unfounded. Ir. CANNING, in !icing to move the Order of t o+y, expressed the high gratification which he ":?erieaced at having found such an ally as the llo f-.:zable and Learned Gentleman, with whom, how t'tr, he did not agree in many points. He objected moderate reform because it would lead, by de- Zees. to th e ver y , object which was now proposed to V t . bow- Every intermediate s tep obtained would as a stepping-stone to attain that end. Was 1 .01 use to begin by admitting that the present ras faulty, and deserved reform ? Then there t'w , modes of reforming it—first, by bringing ' to th e form in which it had been originally _secondly, by reconstructing it altogether. He t.,tt' d ask the Reformers whi c h o f t h ese two mo d es P r red? If the first, then l e t th em name t h e (11 raic'n they choose as their criterion. If the lot the m explain their principle. The H0.4,t4b.e .4 ,t4b.e Baro net h a d m i xed a little of these two to i7t..:.ier; sod be ;Mr. Canning) would take this as his arid ark . a.rn at sOtai period Parliament had beett constructed in a better Moffar than at present? When it sat annually (it it ever did) its functions, as vrelloas the whole face of society, were very sliffervnt from what now existed. What national interests or individual concerns, brought before this House, were not discussed, not only with the deepest attention, but with the most enlightened views and abilities? The Honourable Baronet thought that the will of the people was not sufficiently direct on the measures of the Government ; hut Government was not a matter of will, and the whole machinery of monarchy had been constructed to prevent that direct influence which the Honourable Baronet advocated. lf, to our misfortune, we had found a popular assembly :existing under the direct controul of the people , forced to - obey its will, and liable to be dismissed br its authority, it would have been the duty of wise Legislators to diminish that overbearing influence, and to substitute in its place a deliberative freedom. If, instead of this, it were again proposed to curtail the duration of Parliament, he would contend that it would increase instead of diminishing the evils of which the Reformers complained ; for more frequent elections,Viith the present limited constituents, would give a great advantage to those who sat for close bo roughs over those who stood for open and popular places. He felt much gratitude to the Honourable Baronet for having at last brought the question of Parliamentary Reform in a tangible shape before the House, for it would then be in the power of all to judge whether the present system was not preferable to all the plans proposed. There was no danger in this. The only danger was in those vague and gene. ral discussions about Reform. It was said that the House did not sufficiently represent the people. If the House represented the people as it was under stood, and the will of the people was the rule of go vernment, then King and Lords would be nuisances and excrescence. Let the House look at the last year of the reign of Charles the First, and it would find, in its own Journals, resolutions taken by the long Parliament, and containing a very correct ex position of the Honourable Baronet's theory—(hear). They would read that it was resolved—First, That the People, under Gon, were the original of all just Government. 2dly, That the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, chosen by and representing the People, had the supreme power in these king doms. And Sdly, 4, That what had been enacted or declared for law, by the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, had the force of law, and the people were bound by it, although the consent of the King and the Lords had not been had thereto."— These Resolutions had been followed by a Vote, de claring the House of Lords no longer useful ; and won after by another, dethroning the King, and tak ing away his life. Yet could it be denied that the theory of the Honourable Baronet was contained in these Resolutions? Whoever said that this ought to be the principle of our system, spoke of a pure de mocracy, and not of a monarchy. But the House and the Country would be contented to rest under the shelter of the Constitution as it had been esta blished at the Revolution, for it had been found suf ficient for the prosperity and the glory of the nation. He thought the Honourable Baronet had discussed the question very fairly ; and therefore, instead of meeting it with a direct negative, should only move the Order of the Day. The question was then put from the Chair upon the Amendment. Mr. LAMB supported the amendment, ridiculing Major Cartwright, who had stood forward as the Prime Mover of Reform, and yet had not been able to understand that the words Brevia Parliantentaria did not mean short Parliaments—(Hear, hear). The Hon. Member was persuaded that the Hon. Baronet, in bringing forward this motion, acted from pure motives, and from a persuasion, that its adoption would be for the benefit of the country ; but he was convinced there were others that acted frcm far dif ferent motives.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. W. SMITH was glad that this subject had been again brought forward, because every new dis cussion was one more step to the attainment of Re form ; not indeed the Reform proposed by the Hon. B.u.onet, but rational and discreet Reform. Sir F. BURDETT, in reply, complimented the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) on the openness and candour with which he had met this question; but thought that the Right Honourable Gentleman had been peculiarly unfortunate in his histr.rical illustration.— He bad referred to the early proceedings of the Long Parlia. ment of Charles I. but No seemed to hare forgotten that the arbitrary measures it had adopted were owing to the abandon ment of the system he now recninmero.ed. Had Parliaments been annual, the Long Parliament would never have existed, nor perhaps would any of the unhapre consequences have rc. suited, which the Right Honourable Gentleman had so decply deplored. The ground taken by the Right Honourable Gen tleman was fair and open—that no evil prevailed, and that no remedy was necessary; but this was a mu ter of fact, upon which he was at issue with the majority of the subjects of the country. He (Sir Francis Burdett) thought the attack upon the worthy Major uncandid and uncalled for : the ridicule of his ignorance of Latin only sheaved that his arguments could not be contro verted, though his scholarship might be disputed. An Honour able and Learned Gentleman, whose eloquence and talents no man would dispute, had not behaved with the same candour and fairness that had been shewn by the Right Hon. Gentleman. His speech had been certainly very amusing, but it was far tram convincing ; and though a sort of salmagundi of sarcasm, argu ment, verboseness, and panegyric, ( Hear, hear,) the words ap peared to be more abundant than the ideas, and the irony than• the argument. As to the Hcnourable Gentleman below (Mr. Lamb), he seemed only alarmed at dangers of his own creation, like children who screamed at ghosts and hobgoblins which nowt saw but themselves. Ile (Sir Francis Burdett) was rejoiced that this great question bad been once more discussed, and that the distincto _;5 with which the propositions had been brought forward had been so gratifying to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Craning, : of him it was not, however, to be expected that a convert would be made: he was teo well satisfied with the present state of things ..nder which he flourished so luxuriantly : he could see :to detect to be remedied, exclaiming:in his warm admiration of tke perfeedons of the existing House of Commons, " I look at thee but with a lover's eye, " Thou bast no faults, or I no faults can spy ; " Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I !" The gallery was then cleared, and the House di vided— For the Amendment Against it Majority - —lO6 Eir FRAMS Eleanor and Lord Cocaaarz were tellers. The Regency Amendment Bill was committed, read a third tinte, and passed. Lord COCHRANE presented a Petition from Mr. W. Cob. bet', late of Daley, in favour of Parliamentary Reform ; it was of m eat length, and when the Clerk had proceeded some way through it, Mr. PAZAK ER LEY moved that the House be conoted,and as only ld Members were present, an adjournmect of course int mediatdy took pine: at a quarter to 11 o'clock. STAR. LONDON. To-Monnow, £l,OOO PSN Afirrtrtt £40,000, £23,000 1 or L'22,000, For Sixth-d 7 aunt Prize above £l,OOO. 3 of £20,000-107 CAPITALS IN THIS LOTTERY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1818. THE FUNDS. ' , Ritz OK STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE 0 4 CLOCK : Reduced 78-li—Con. 78f 79--for Opg.79if 8i per Cents. 88-4 per Cent. 960 Navy Anns. 108 !OM—lndia Bonds 85 89 pr. Ezch. Bills 16 20 pr.--Omnium par, t pre. Lord ERSKINE'S Bill for declaring the law re specting the powers assumed by Magistrates to com mit persons for libel before indictmextfound, was lost last night, on the motion for a second reading. The consideration of the Alien Bill tan; next before the Peers, when a question arose on the pro priety of suspending the Orders of the House for the purpose of having the Bill carried through two stages iri one sitting, which caused the House to be divided three times. Lord Stnnotrnes motion for suspending the Order was finally carried, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. In the House of Commons, last night, Sir FRANCIS . BURDETT brought forward his promised Resolutions respecting certain Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage, which were combatted by Mr. BROUGHAM, in a speech of great temperance and ability; and on a division, (if such a term may be used where all but the Tellers were on one side,) rejected. It is impos sible, we think, to review the arguments used on both sides, in any thing like a candid spirit, without con curring perfectly in the concluding observation of Mr. BROUGUAN, that those who deny the necessity of all reform, and those who contend that every thing should be at once surrendered, are equally opposed to the sound reason of the case and to the best interests of their country. Thit there is great occasion and great room for improvement in our Representative System, it must be hard, we think, for any rational person to deny ;1 but that a change of so sweeping a character, amount ing to nothing less than an utter revolution in our civil constitution, as that moved for by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, can be adopted with any thing like an as surance of safety, is a proposition which bears as strong marks of political folly as any that ever came under our observation. What sort or extent of Re form it may be prudent to adventure, is a question which it will be time enough to discuss when any plan of a nature really worthy of being seriously enter tained, is brought forward ; at present, it is enough for the public to be satisfied, as we think all the thinking part of it must be, that Parliament have done well in throwing out, in the decided manner it has done, the rash and visionary schemes of these West minster Reformers. We have received this morning New York Papers to the 30th of April. A brig from Antigua had brought intelligence that Admiral BRION called off that island on the 7th instant, and sent in a boat to request permission to enter with his squadron and re fit, but which had been refused. The squadron con sisted of two brigs and a schooner. A Cabinet Council sat yesterday from two till four o'clock. The PRINCE RECENT had a numerous dress party last night. Monday, the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, prevsous to their leaving Cambridge House to go to the Queen's Palace to be re-married, allowed a num ber of peroms, the friends of the household, to stand in the hall to see them pass. Cambridge House was yesterday thronged with nobility and distinguished characters leaving their cards of congratulation. Lady ELLENBOROUOII'S long-talked-of Ball and Supper were given, on Monday evening, at the superb family mansion in St. James's-square, which was fitted up for the occasion in a style of infinite taste. The drawing-rooms were most brilliantly illuminated ; and the coup Bail was in every respect complete. Dancing commenced soon after eleven o'clock, led off by the accomplished Misses LAW, Colonel SEY- MoUR, Lad) , GEORMANA BATHURST, the Ladies GRAHAM, Lord WEYMOUTH, Lord J. THYNNZ, &C. &c. The Supper consisted of every delicacy. Quad rilles and waltzes prevailed alternately, until half part four o'clock. One of the most magnificent Balls the season has produced, was gived by Mr. WALTER FAWKES, of Farriley Hall, Yorkshire, on Monday night, at his unique residence, in Stanhope-street, Mayfair. M. de MAUBREUIL, who has lately taken refuge , in this country from the process instituted against him in France, with respect to the Er-Queen of WESTPHALIA'S jewels, has deposited what he calls a Protest in the hands of the LORD MAYOR, " as the Chief Magistrate of the capital of a country, the Go vernment of which was no party to the treasonable deed, (the assassination of Napoleon,) which be was ordered, but refused to, perpetrate," against the judg ment latterly pronounced against him by the Court of Douay. He has also lodged a similar protest with the French Ambassador. HAZARD and Co. the Contractors for the present Lottery, respectfully acquaint the Public, their Office at the Royal Exchange will be open till TWELVE O'CLOCK THIS NIGHT.—TO-MORROW the Lottery be gins Drawing ; in the first 20 Minutes 20 Prizes will receive 10001. each. The Scheme contains 107 Ca pital Prizes. HAZARD and Co. sold Five, Prizes of 20,000/. in the last years Lotteries, and in the former Lotteries, Prices t the amount of Millions. even that duty ago; on o thin! 1115 have belie often den • obit for Arai Pas °Re the, To I. foot .from in a as f; thet thet the iioi kite he, poi jets t- griJ of rat th • ab ) m , • • ha arl di cl, la • T A her Sr an e r , to ab d • th an • rr ; h f. I m • 1).• co at. ect Lc ti _n• •te n • nts th • ras th hot sax th Curl' tth ,ary s, 3' cottitt O kfridd liENcit, • BENTENCIi. OF MIL MrtiCSAON. At ten o'clock this morning, Ldrd ELLansoitofihial together with the Justices Bnyte.v, Hocnoifd, and Astd - r, having taken their seats on the &twill Mn; Merceron appeared at the Bar to receive judgmene for embezzling 9261. Is. 2d. of the Poor Money 64 , longing to Bethnal-green Parish, end for improperly Lieei..ing Publk-houses in the said Parish. Mr. J.:-tics7l; sl-t.fiv proceeded to deliver the jag:: ment of the :'hurt ; anti before doing to, observedi that on an impartial review of the whole evidence in the ease, and of the affidavits adduced in extenuation, the Court were perfectly satisfied that the Jury had come to a conscientious conclusion ih their vcidici: The offences of which the defendant stood conviCted i were both of a most iniquitous description—the Lit: ter especially—since the morals of the people de , pended on nothing so much as the proper regulatiort of all places of public resort ; and it was a paho mount duty of the defendant, in his Magisterial ea& pacity to allow no private or corrupt motive to in terfere with the whOlesome exercise of that gstardian+ ship over them, with which he Res entrusted.--- , The Court had at the same time taken into conside ration the circumstance of the Defendant's having refunded the 9251. Is. tel. and also 2141.195. interest on the same; as well as the future visitings of con. seience by which the Defendant must be assailed dining the rest of his lite, in consequence of the de graded state into which he had now fallen, The sentence of the Court therefore was, that the Defen dant should for the first offence he recommitted to thecustody of the Mar.hal of the King's Bench fur Six Months, and pay a Gne of 2001. ; and for the second, be imprisoned Twelve.Nfonths, to commence after the expiration of the six months for the first offence. Mr. Justice BATLEY added, that the case should be laid before die LORD CHANCELLOR, that his Lord ship may use his discretion as to striking the lkfen dant out of the Commission for the Peace. The Defendant bowed to the Court, and retired in the custody of the T:pstaffs. The Court was crow ded to excess. THE ARMY. Monday the first division of the 10th Royal Hus sars, marched into the cavalry Barracks, near C.ni terbuiy, from Elighton, and were followed by the remainder of the icgimer.t this day. They replace the 9th lancers in the Kent District, from which the last squadron marched on Monday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The ATLAS, from China, has arrived ef Plymouth. 'lle Too . .s.ks (lnENvttitit and CARNArte arrived off the Start on Sunday eve: in; : they I,:t Caloitza 0:1 the 13th of 3larch, and St. Helena un the 4th of April. PoI:TSMOUTU, JUNE L Wind W.S.W.—Passed through for the Downs, the Princess Chaihnte of Wales, (iiitamAt, from Madras and Bengal. Sailed the Vansittart, DALRYMPLI, for the liver; and his Majesty's ship GRASSUOPPEit, fur Halifax. DARTMOT'TII, JUNE I. Passed up Chanuel tl,i3 morning, the-Francis and STu V.tnT, from Nladras, sec hich place she left on the 2d of January, and the Cape of Good Hope en the 19th of March. This venel landed a Mail bete. Also the Bridgewater, Hutatzt, from China. COWES, JUNE 2. Sailed the Barton, CORNISH, for Tenetiffe. LIVERPOOL, JUNE I. Arrived the Tom Hazard, HOLDRIDGE, from New York ; sailed ‘29th April. On the 6th May, in lat. 4.2. long. 50. spoke the Ben Lemond, from the Clyde fee New Brunswick-17th, in lat. 51. long. 19. spoke the Venus, —, from Sligo for Quebec ; same day the Venus, M'IvER, from Liverpool fer Newfoundland. DEAL, JUNE 2. Wind S. W.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Charles Mills, JACKSON, for Bengal ; Hebe, BRUNTON, for Jamaica ; Orwell, MUDDLE, for St. Vincent's ; and several others. GRAVESEND, JUNE 3. Arrived, the Peter Jacobus, Widiams, from Antwerp ; this Drake, Whiloe, from ditto; and Hanover, Adamson, maica. Sailed, the Malta, Breame, for Archant Hurls, for Madras, &c.; Vittoria, Southam, Liberty, Thomas, fur Dublin; Perseverance, burgh ; Pomona, Sparks, for Flsineur, &c. ; ker, for Gibraltar; New Blessing, Roberts, Amphitrite, Rahouln, for Rouen. The following letter from Petersburg) 17th April, is from the Baltimore Gazette April :—" Arrived the Lucien, Rossi vcrpool, forty days from Dublin Bay, from Cape Clear. The Captain informt, Experienced heavy gales from the North' Chops of the Channel, for '2O days wi -- On March 31, in lat. 43. 30. long. 42. saw a large field of ice extending as ward as we could see, but could not tent of it, ran 25 miles before he came extremity ; the field appeared to be c could perceive noopening at 3p. m. On another large Island of Ice, and several five p. m. saw a very large island, NO we saw." UNTIL TWELVE O'CLOCK TO-Nloll_ ces, 9, Cornhill ; and 17, Ludgate -street, Open until Twelve o'Clock To-Ni ht begins dtAvving TO-MoRROW. Will each r'bceive 10001. in addition. contains Three of ?0,00/. and 101 otl WEBS sAd Four CapitAs I.3st Lotter. 30,0001. very late?), All in Shares. 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