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PAIII.I.IIIIENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOME OF LoRD% APRIL 10. Counsel were tullv heard on the Scots Appeal, Berrys st. I Stewart. T., be &ally a joidicateil by the H iuse on Friday. 1 he consid• ration of heir Lordship* judgment in the ' , cots' Cause of Lord Keitl e. Taylors was also deterred till Friday. 'Ube 1.t1R1) CHANCELLOR acquainted the Home that he should be unable to attend the hearing of Cau s e s on We dnesday,l that bents the fir-t day of I crm, and an order was made accord ingly postene the bearings 'lle False Nliasure l'r,Nev.ti Hill was brought up from the Coni.turna by Mr. Wlll'l'6l4 EM), anti read a first time. The Tob.ieco importatlim Rill was brought pby Mr. Rama- TAN; and the dill for the more etf , ctially securing the Liberty of the Subj• et, by Mr. Set jean* ON stow, and others. These Bills were severally read a lir,' time. '4• 7 f EtiCA OF rioNApARTE. The Marquis AV EI.I.ESLEY, after slightly glailcing at what he termed the rapid rise and sud tl4 lan, observed, lie should have to call the atten timi certain considerations respecting the unlooked for resurrection of the pi esent Ruler of France. Of this, the Papers already communicated, contained some details of a transaction, more extraordinary than either, and more likely hereafter to draw the at tention of his:ory. He felt it his duty to call their Lordships attention to the whole of that transaction on an early day. He understood Wednesday was open, and on that day he should move for certain farther Parr; relating to it, founded on some ob servations which he felt it his duty to submit with re gard to the general aspect of the transaction. The Noble Marquis then moved that the Lords be sum moned for Wednesday. CONTINENTAL TRANSACTIONS. Earl GREY notified his intention to take an op portunity on that day to move for the production of some farther information which he deemed necessary to elucidate certain transactions on the Continent of Eur pe. His Lordship alluded to the proceedings at Vienna, and the affair of Genoa. The Earl of LIVERPOOL expressed his wish that the Noble Lord opposite would have the good ness t.i state the nature of the additional information he Intel' !ed to call tor t not with a view to his (Lord Liverpool's) pledging himself either way with respect to the production, but in order to ascertain before that day what information could be given. The Marquis WELLESLEY, iti answer to what fall from the Noble Mit:ister, said, that he had in some degree, or to a certain extent, apprised him of it; but between this and the day mentioned, he should make a farther statement on the subject. The Marquis°, DOUGLAS, seeing a Noble Earl in his place, said, he should on Wednesday, if there were opportunity, move for other P-pers, which he also thought necessary to be communicated, on the milli:et of certain important transactions on the Continent. He more pattiettlatly alluded to the eornmunicati , ns which passe b:tween Lord William Bentinck and Count B •ll•gard, relative to the annexa tion of certain parts of the North of Italy to tue Au strian Yie Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that all the Papers on these topics which were deemed necessary bad been communicated to P•trliament. Undoubt edly, if any Noble Lord had "thought any important ti.euments were omitted, he could bring forward a :notion on the subject. Tie Bills upon the table were forwarded in their teipective stages, and the House adjourned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr BIM°, Sir JAMES Gsailam, and Mr. BARCLAY, pre aeo•ed Petitions trona the Borough of Southwark, St. Martin's in tue I irlds, the pat !sli of M.iry-la-bonne, St. Andrew's, Hol:iorn, aed the W. sr division of Southwark. against the Pavitig Bit! The time fur recognizance nn the Downpatrick Liection Pe ti inn, was enlarged Trout the 17th of this month to the lath of The Cokhold Esta•e Bill MR read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on '1 hursday next. 1 he Pillory Abolition Bill was read a first time, and ordered to he read a second time on Friday, and printed. Mr. ROBINSON postponed till ibis day sennight the Com nlitter on the About on of the slave Trade. .1 Ee False Measures' Bill was read a third time, and paced. Mr. BENNE'T moved that the Committee on the King's Bench, Fi it, and Marshalsra Prisons, have power to enquire into the Jai now building in the city for the reception and sccommoda• tlon of Debtors. On Mr. serjeant ONSLOW's motion, the Liberty of the Subject Bid was read a third tune, and passed. .11,t Poor and Highway Return Bill was read a third time, and Massed. A Petition was presented from the Freeholders of the County of File Tains' certain clauses In the Scotch Jury Court Bill. Air. KINGS lON brought up copi:s of the proceedings of the East ludic Court, relative to the salaries and pensions granted by them. General FERGUSSON presented a Petition from the Borough of Kirkaldy against a clause in the ScJtch Jury 11111. LATHIWP 14 1111 RAY. Si; SAMUEL ROMILI.Y said, that the Secre tary of State having been so obliging as to inform him, that the case of Lathrop Murray, which he had some time ago brought before the House, was not such as to call for the mercy of the Crown, he felt it his duty to present the Petition of which he had spoke() when he had first mentioned the business.— He did not mean to blame the respectable Judge who had passed the sentence, nor did be mean to censure the Secretary of State. He vould slate the case horn the Report of the Shorthinil•writeys: Mr. Murray, who was an Officer, and had served in Spain, was married in 1797, in Londonderry, in Ire land, to a Lady of the name of Marshall. He was malted by a Dissenting Minister. Dr. Black, the Clergyman who married him, had in his evidence said that he was younger than the Lady, and that be (Dr. Black) had seen him Coln Murray) but once at a Dissenting Congi gation. Mr. Murray contract ed a second marriag e with a Lady in London, in 1801, after he had been informed, as he said, by two Civilians, that the first marriage was not valid by law. There was no evidence that the second wife was not fully apprised of the first marriage, nor even was there sufficient proof that there was a second marriage. He (Sir Samuel) mentioned the case on ly with a view to the apportionment of punishment. Mr. Murray was sentenced to seven years transporta ti Dn. This was the severest punishment which could be inflicted under tha most aggravated circumstances for the crime of bigamy. But even allowing the first marriage, and that there was full proof of the second marriage, this was not a bigamy under those aggra vated circumstances. There was an affidavit from the second wife, that she had been fully apprised of the first marriage; and surely there was a wide dis tinction to be made between a man marrying a se cond wife, and previously informing her . that he bad been married before, and a man marrying a second wife and imposing himself miter as a single mut— ' An Honourable Member had said, that if Mr. Mur ray did not deserve his sentence for bigamy, be ds served it for swindling. But he (Sir Samuel) could, not believe that the Secretary would proceed on sush a ground. It was against every principle of laws that a person should suffer the punishment for one crime, which he deserved for another. At any rate there sturld be some enquiry into the reality of the second crime home the punishment was inflicted.— Mr. Murray was most anxious that there should be every enquiry made into die charge of- swindling agaiost him, in the ful confidence that the charge would be found to be wrong. He (Sir Samuel) did not mean to press the petition in any adverse sense.; but lie thought that, at any rate, the House should have the Recorder's report to the Secretary of State, before them. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that there had been every consideration given to the case, and that the Judge whc had passed the sentence, had been consulted on it. Nothing had appeared to do away the criminality of Murray, of whose character he (the Solicitor-General) had never heard any thing before, and on whci'm he should think himself un worthy the situation of a Barrister, did he wish to inflict for one crime the punishment due for another. He then went into a long proof that the first nest riage was every way legal - , as well as that the semis! had been filly proved, and concluded by expressing his opinion, that there was no good ground for es tending the mercy of the Crown to the petitioner. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY said, that he still must think, that a very wide degree of punishment was due to a man marrying a second wife and impo sing himself on her, as single, and a man who mar ried a second wife, but previously informed her that he was married before. Mr. Murray was sentenced to the punishment of a though his case was not attended with any circumstance of — aggravation. He had been brought up at an University, served in his Majesty's service in Spain, and on his return had hoped to participate in the common triumph of his brave brothers hi arms. But somebody made out this alleged bigamy against him, and brought it for ward, it may be thought, not from the best motives. Sir Samuel then asked was there any objection to having the Recorder's Report laiJ before the House ? Mr. HILLY ADDINGTON said that every at tention had been given to this case, and that nothing appeared to justify any mitigation of punishment. The Petition WAS then read, and ordered to lie on die table. CONT!NENTAL AFFAIRS. Mr. PONSONBY gave notice that he shoulJ, on a future day, move for a copy of the instructions un der which Lora William Bentinck acted, not only in Genoa, but in Sicily. Mr. WHITBREAD said he should wish for an Address to the Prince Regent, complaining of the de fective return of papers concerning Congress, in pur suance of the last Address. He then alluded to a document respecting Saxony, which he had seen in a newspaper of this day, and wh'ch lie said stood quite unrivalled in the annals of diplomacy. He wished to know whether it should b.: considered as genuine, as it bad the Noble Lord's (Castlereagh) names° k Lord CASTLE REAC;tI said that it was a trans lation of a translation, and di it at a proper moment he would give every information on the subject, when he hoped the House would find that there were no improper sentiments in it. He apologised to the House for having stilfeied himself to be drawn on to give information bt.f ire it was perfectly advisable to let it go forth. But he was obliged to it, to clear his Majesty's Government and the Allies from the mis. tatements and calumnies which the Hon. Gentleman was in the continual hiehit of indulging himself against them. Indeed the Hon. Gentleman seems to pride himself on taking every occasion to endeavour to drive into preen -tune disclosures ; but he should take care that the Honourable Gentlem oi's attempts, la boured and incessant as they may be, should be vain in future. Mr. WHITBREAD defended himself from the charge of perverting the rules of Parliament, in order to throw calumnies on the different Governments of Europe. What he had complained of in the present instance, was the inadequacy of the return which had been made to the Address of the House, and in sup port of that complaint he had stated that . it was im possible for him to suppose that no annexations had taken place save that of Genoa, which latter the Noble Lord had confessed in the papers that (as it seemed against his will) he had laid on the table of the House. As to Saxony, he should be satisfied if he could hope that the Noble Lord would, at some time, give them information which should let them peep behind the scenes, and see *hat all the Noble Plenipotentiaries (the Noble 1..0rd among the rest !) had really been doing. Th.: Noble Lord had talked against throwing suspicions on the conduct of the Allied Powers. Why, what was the Noble Lord himself about, when in die later whkh had that day been published, and which he hid acknowledged to be his, he spoke c f 44 the alarming and dangerous pretensions of Russia ?" At the same time, how.:4d ever, the Noble Lord, it appeared by that letter, thought it perfectly consistent with political morality to give up the whole of Saxony to Prussia. [Lord Castlereagh •••• 46 Quite the reverse.") Really it was impossible, writing or speaking, distinctly to under. stand the Noble Lord's meanii.g. If the Noble Lord were permitted to withhold information from the House on these important subjects, in what skim• tion did they stand ? The Noble Lord was absent from the country en confidence. He bad no instrue• Lions. He was to be governed by his own discretion. He was omnipotent. 64 He would not allow the ma. chine to stand still while waiting for an impulse from his own Government." Let the House look at the letter of that day, and see bow the Noble Lord ex pressed himself. 44 I attach importance to such and such a principle." 4 4 I conceive die King of Saxony to have placed himself, by his acts, in a situation to be fairly sacrificed to the tranquillity of Europe."--- is I shall not regrot making an example of one of the German States ;" 44 . I can have no hesitation to the principle of the proposed arrangement ;" ss I have no objecticn to confide Saxony to the provisional admi nistration of his Prussian Majesty," &c. kc. and yet after all this assumption, and after the lapse of many I months, the Noble Lord returns re infeeta, as far as re garded that House, having no communication to make to it. He waits until a Member of Perlin ment, having in vain interrogated him, embodier his questions in a motion, to which- modem he accedes, and he then complains of perverting the ordinary course of Parliamentary proceedings. The Noble -Lord, he presumed, would have Parliament do nothing but vote money. He expected a continu ance of the confidence of the public after the letter which had that day appeared, which, it seemed, was a translation of a translation. He should like to know in.what language it was originally composed. [Lord CAhTLEREACIIi t el In English. I—ln1 —In English! He thought the Noble Lord must himself , have been the translator, for really it. was very like his style—it might be put by the side of the Genoese communica tions. The Noble Lord declared that he would not be diverted from his course, neither would he (Mr. Whitbread) be diverted from his course. As the Noble Lord would use the privileges of the Horne for defence, so he (Mr. Whitbread) would use them for offence against those who appeared to him to mis conduct themselves in pablic situations; and this the more especially when a motion was about to be made tor flu. Speaker's leaving the Chair, for the purpose of enabling the House, in a Committee of Supply, to vote 020,000,000 of Army Extraordinaries, in cluding large sums to Foreign Powers. It was no abuse of the privileges of Parliament, to inquire into public affairs. The Noble Lord said, is wait till the Papers are before the House." Did he mean to give them t It happened fortunately enough that the veil which the Noble Lord was anxious to keep over' certain transactions, was some how or other removed. This was instanced in the publication of the letter of that day. Another celebrated instance was the pub lication, by the American Government, of the nego. ciations which were at that time pending with Great Britain, to which publication was probably owing the termination of the war with the United States.— There would, indeed, be little controul over the ex ercise of the power of congregated Monarch,, were it not for the voice of public opinion ; and highly, therefore, to be desired were all communications by which the pubic were informed with respect to the proceedings of Governments. The Noble Lo: d, and Prince Talleyrand, and Prince Hardeuberg, and the other Princes, seemed to treat each other much more folly than they did the WOI U. There had now been an attack and a connter-att Ick between him and the N ible Lord. Tin: Noble Lord might Jo as he pleased; for 'himself he should pursue, undeviatingiy, the course which he had hithotto preset i!:ed to himself. Lord cAsTLEREAGH said he was fully sen sible that rm attempt on his part, however earne or however just, could divert the Hon. Gentleman from pursuing that course of calumniating his Majesty's Government and our Allies. But he was addressing A House, to which he knew reason would not be urged in vain, though it may elsewhere ; and he should be guided in future by his sense of the public interest, without paying any regard to the improper questions of the Hon. Gentleman, who he knew took A delight in asking premature information, because he knew he could make out c;:lumni:s and chuges better from imperfect docummts than horn any others. But in future, if the lion. GA:de:flan poi. sued his usual miparliamentary course, he may ask as many questions as he pleased, and nut have any an swcred. Mr. W ITBREAD then move..l, that tl.c late Address to the Prince R....gent should be re.td, W.tich ve:is done till the Clerk came to the part " as mad• be laid before the House without prkjotlice to the public interest," when, amidst loud checi lag flout the Ti ea sury Benches. the Honourable Gcatleman (Mr. Whitbread) sat down. Lord CASTLEREAGH asked Mr. Ponsonby across the table what papers he would move 1)r ? Mr. PONSONBY said, that he would more in the first instance for papers . respecting Genoa. The further consideration of the County Rates Bill was postponed till Wednesday next. Sin J. MAC KINTOSIi gave notice, that he should on to-morrow (Tuesday) se nnight move for Papers respecting the late declarations of the Allied rowels. CUMNIFITEE OF SUPPLY. The House h-ving re)ulved itself into a Commit. tee of Supply ; The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, that it would b: necessary for him to enter into a tew explanations, lest sem:: of the sums in cluded in the am , !unt he was about to move for, might not be sufficiently clear in the accounts before the House; but he should trespass upon the time of the House as little as possible. From the accntints in question i: would be seen that the amount of the Treasury Bills that had be.n issued for the A. my Ethaordinaries fOr 181 E was very considerable; but he trusted that when the arrangements which had been in that year for the public advantage were con sidered, that the expellees would he admitted to be indispensable. Them was this dill:mice in the ac counts•for the last and former years, that instead of the Bills for the Army Extraord;t:•tries being drawn both by the Pa) master-General and the Commissary- General, the whole of them had been drawn by the latter, and paid over to the former. Thus tipitigh the amount appeared much larger than when the imens were drawn for by different persons, the total o as not more than if the former system had been adopted, while the public service was benefited by the change. The total amount drawn Ix On the Treasury for the service of the year 1811, was 020,931,826, which included 45,000,000 that had been paid over to other departments and for distinct purposes. The whole amount, therefore, of the Army Eztraordinaries was £15,931,0® and up wards ; which exceeded the amount of the preceding year by about A'600,000. If this excess were thought considerable, he could only entreat the House to re collect 'the extraordinary circumstances of the time. In the course of the last year, and even after the peace, it was not only necessary to continue our esta blishments to their full extent, but also to make pro. vision f* the payment of arrears which bad occur , red long before, and of which it had not been possi bk at that period to get accounts. Of the bills that had been drawn, a considerable part of the amount was for foreign subsidies, which our liberality had granted to the Allies, and which had produced such great results. It was also satisfactory to him 4 to be able to state, that there was not any sum, except *bout 4150,000, but what had arisen out of the items already recognized by Parliament. This sum was one which, under more favourable circumstan ces than the present, was granted to the King of Francs, to enable him to return to his Kingdom, and it was included in the amount drawn for by the Coto -1 missary-Ceneral. The total amount of the Bill draws in 1813, was 417,780,000, which was re duced by sums applied lo other military and nayy services by about A 5,400,000, so that 2,300,0 w) r, 'twined for the purposes of the Army Extraordinar:c ; In the year 1814, the total amount of Bills drawn w £15,590,0Q0, from which, when the sums for the sif sidies,ice.were substracteMl ere remained 4I 2,900,01 t for the Army Estraordiliaries. The first head of tI t accounts .ost the table conta i ned tls lie h. td whole d of be f u n obse bills rve lPai d. am o unted dbytile to Treasury, which, a neatly 21 millions. The text general head was for the conveyance of of f icer. to foreign stations.. Another head w as f or t l. e con veyance of specie, for which service it was customary tin allow the Commanders of ships of War oie half per cent. to answer for any s Aiglit embezzle meta that might Occur, .and to pay fur insurance. m in) eases Lad occurred in which emb. ash:call s had been made. which it bad not been in the o f the officers to prevent. There was another beau tA extra pay to officers on foreign se: vice ; and the ac count was closed with the heads of the excess of tl.e grants for the Commissary in Chit f :old the St , ,:e. keeper-General ; the first of which amounted to C 4,05,000 and the latter to £C16‘,640. The am:fmt voted for the Commissary in Chief meo.ly f or : h e services in his department toward: the close of !ast yet was £3,000,000, yet the amount of the tm diture was e::),1-7s;,000. So that the actual exrtet e had somewhat exceeded• the vote, and was aeon( 4200,000 shorts of the catin7.ttc, though larger ts..ci the sum voted by including all the par chases of stores. The House was aware, that wait the Commissary-Gener.:l's 1) parts:le:it rested all means of procuring tho)e great supplies which ..v erc necessary fur our miiitary service abioad. Althoe7!i, therefore, there was an excess in the branch of Commissariat, yet if the articles which caused it lal been raised by the Commissary-General, ~ I.ey must have been raised by some (Alm aims; ai;il by those which had been adopted last year, of phciii; l the whole accounts to the charge of the Cartunis , zi; in Chief, he was confident the public Seriiite Isej been advantaged. The amount of this sum ,01 y raised by the Commissary• General esc.e..fed millions, and the sum of about st10,00“,0;io through his hands in the coarse of the la.: yt.ii. wt. n the House recollected the importance .e.. 1 :- tore of the war carried ou in the l'en -,suss., ..1 . I !e espences with width it was necessat ily attended :.e:a the extreme difficulty of poetising supplies, ti atsi. ness of the rotd, , and stations oostact.s Commissariat had to encounter, they would cca, :c teon,ler at the exp.:ncls of this bianch of setiL!. rhe great Commander, who had CciiilJCled in that country, had, by his energies and coic•-,;.ii, been able to solve a paradox which nobody Liiire him could understand. It had been said, Li tti A great army was to eater Spain, it must be surr...: And that a small one must be defeated. But he led a large army to victory, by procuring for Itae supplies that were necessary, in a country e:i . . had appeared to be totally incapable of alto; d them. Thu House were now called :.n to male g the winding up of the sum that had thus arisen. la past of oils.ch ters.:4;ood to I. liree.4l. A I Hon. Coral:man opposite had, on a fluter occ,i,en, asked him a question rcsrctitig the aniunat of tit Extraottlinariei incurred si-ce the end of tea yt.ir. He had wished to know what was tha amouat ut t Army Extraordinaries which had been pad sine ta close of 1814? 'rile amotri.ti was, after iroln it Certain items, 42,200000 M the tout se or ex last duce morm.s. The deductions were, the st:m for the ordinary services, and the Bills paid Allies. whole issue amounted to of which ar2,200,000 were properly b;•loti, to t:! Army Extraordinaries. There was a pay ,, , making on aextrut of the army in the raw of a million of th liars per moo whole of which account w.,uid be wow, six tno:lths, the Amount remained to beim alicitlL six millious of doll4ls. Oa the he might st.tt.: that the bum requ.re4 f the sdi wiry expellees of the arm), from the 2 D..cember. 1813, to the 21. th of December Ist elusive, would not exceed reS,USS,4:33 which he should proceed to maim. Mr. "VIERNEY wished to know if the uht..'t counts ler the year were made up ? The CHANCELLOIt of Lie EXCIIEQ't an,w, , ted that it .0 AS impostille to inciu.ie ill i 1 a expellees of tltu Aftitricitil contest. Malt) bid name in (ruin America biIICC lhC ACCOsitab made out; but it .opi,cated, that including b ciedil, theme would be about two wiliivus Aid .1 to discharge, but which were already provice In Luther reply to two or three brief Mr. 'ricrac ) , v.e uiJetstia►J the Iti s ta Hun G' ni.in to say, 111.4 the Amount tsould j surcrrd t.l ►he :limy Extr.torini.tries for the peseta y••. 1 Mr. TIER NLY tRn asked if it ss•.a to 0.. ti; ,t')t►d, that ...uw►ld be no f.utl►er public LH' the CS Of the 0111) 'Chu CILINCLELUit of the LX.:.:111:0: repPech much nt that sum as !Ltd red before the 1 25th of M och must be nu& goi lie , r , :sumt-d, V"lt about three mitilous paid in the prestAit year, which might proh.d, f•iund to be!ong to services that had al! cady uccu 1-I, shou!d, thinecre, plopose to LAW a VOW lot . ill ns altogeth.:r. Ur. TIERNLY—Tfen three millions rem. to be about bed in disiba {in } ; de b incurred in course of last year. He would wish to know is the amount of the deot previaus to the Itit •11 comber, 1811, which reimitts to be pa;cl fie only anzi)us to know what situ had actualiy provided for, towards the total winding up of tut year's accounts, and particularly as to what re. to the war with AtlleriCil ? The CHANCELLOit of the EXCHEQU said, he should not enter into any state:ma, ..1 sent respecting what would be the amount ot winding up of the accounts of the wai with Amer' but he did not foresee that there would be any area on this subject, because the money had been as it was required. In sii.taki , ig of the three unlit he must be understood to speak of Army Extra.' naries in the true sense of the word. But we ...ere able to ascertain at present how the balance will Mr. TIERNEY declared he was satisfied that discussion on this point was a mere waste of nor The total sum that the House was called on to wits 421 1 000.0 A It w4s ituickevossitilt W discum ' 4 . :1 • • o; d.. e g C.1•:41n, of II:t L yt.ir. matte r.c. L.C.I LA' Jr J.:: • t J :. I" . • etist I. Az ,N.tr ~.; • vi,l ,gb tat..• !•lia Ur.; two' 11 L.•: W.l! I 1.• U El: L pr t'..e ic3, ITCJIS rAised !lions recut turn. at all vote