Star. — London, England, 1815-03-21 00:00:00

• -A.- 4 f( ( , t • A ". 4. - 1 . 7111 ER 8751., BIRCH, MAYOR, t COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Cham. h(r of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Monday, (lay of March, itl1:1; That this Court has viewed with feelings of asto . -lit :los wief,the proceedings in Parliament relative to a • in i ; further Restrictions upon the importation of Corn. ' • •:, :wish.taittiteg the veice of the country has been con ?(• and most decidedly declared against that measure .:13, which in point of number, and the number and re , „I,t) of the signatures thereto, have not been exceeded in : I ;.ury of these realms, the Howe of Commons has passed .141 Bill; and its proceedings thereon have been marked ttlia precipitarty, and a pertinacious adherence to the most oh ,Niou• hatures thereof, which plainly evinces an utter disregard the trait gs of the people, and of that public opinion whose i:‘iught to be. z• Thit we have observed in the other House of Parliament the i recipitancy and the sante determination to resist Ihrther spiry. or to hear evidence, notwithstanding a Committee of ..at Itii;ht Hon. House had !rated last Session that the investl - was not complete, and that funher enquiry would be ne. s,ty before any alt,Tation takes place in the laws affecting the ult.t., of the Growers and Consumers of Corn. •fh t 3 ; have seen the Mini.ters of the Crowo, with the same . f regirJ of the genera voice of the country, and whose especial xi it was to watch over the interests, not merely of the Land- Arne , . hut of the community at large, lend the sanction of their y to the support of a measure which in its operation can , a :.:1 of proving most seriously hijurtotis to the manufacturing • coatniercial interests or the kingdom, in a very high degree to the Fuor, and dangerous to the tranquillity and .!!ey 0! the empir:. n..ra humble l'etition be presented to his Royal Highness It OUNCE RaGCNT, praying him to extend his Royal Protec or to int eret su cl..sely conotcted with the prosperity of these ;,y withholding, on behalf of his Maje-ty, his Royal As -1: to the said Dal; and further praying hi, Royal Highness to ; , s e.e, the Commulls Hzuse of Parliament, who have furnished •It• in , st en r:u.ive evidence that they do not support the in- Itftr , , nor rqre , ent the feelings or opinion of the People. Roolvi d, I hat a Committee be appointed, assired by the ttv Othcers, to withdraw and prepare the sane ; and, being re x:, d, presen• ed the Draft of a Petition to his Royal Highness P+ince Rector, which was read and agreed to. F.esolvetl, .1 hat the Thanks of this Court be given to the .:;at Hnn. Lord G Nirtl.l. e, tor hie vet y firm, able, and pen n t iros, in opposition to the Corn Bill, and particularly for ,t re.:!2r.d lbiiity with Wok's he supported this City'* Petition t the same. ftts, Wed, Tint the Thanks of this Court be given to the :h: lion. Earl Geer, fur his zeelons and able conduct on the vraston; and to the rest of the Peers isho opposed the . . '. gill. nrwlvecl, That the Thanks of this Court be given to Mix- 7is i3Asiso, E‘q. and FRANCIS HORNER. Eitl. for their shit &fatigable exertions in opposing the Corn NU in the Ho. • . House of Commons. ,Iveti, Chat the Malik, of this Court be given to the Re tto:nts:ives of this City in Parliament, and the rest of the , lothwr; of the Honourable House of Commons who opposed Corn Bill. WOOLYIHORPE. E.187-1A 1)14 h OUS E, February 92, 181 S. iIHE COURT of DIRECIVRS of the UNITED I. comr,tivre - MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, tradias hereby give notice, ti!e Quartisly General Court of the said Compaoy, ap .n)lttsi to be held at their 'louse, in Leadenhall-street, on VEDNESDAY, the 9.M March next, at Eleven o'Cleck in the drcuoor, is made Special, for the purpose of laying before the ':oimeturs a Report hose the Committee aPPolined b 1 else at' u.:-I Court un the Yild June; isle, to inspect the Bye Laws. 11.4: Court of Directors do hitcher give notice, That at the General Court a Resolution of the Court of Directors of the ~ . h ult. permitting the Rev. Dr. }UNLIT to retire from his 1:.• as Principal of the East-India College, upuu a Pension of Annum, will be laid before the said General Court for tikir a ill...U.:lien, agreeably to the 19th Section of that tith Chapter he Cornrany's Bye-Laws. Ali; a Resaution of the Court of Directors of the Ist in.: appohait.r, Mr. Richard CAIN GLYN,of the Bengal Civil :mce, a temporary Assistant to the Professors in the Oriental fartment at the College, with a salary of £4OO per Annum, and allow:tat': of ,CI 00 per Annum for liouse-rent, for the period thr riracity, will ai,u he Lid before the said Ge tral*Court for their appt obation, agreeably to the 18th Section the Wh Chapter of the Company's Bye-Laws. ALAI that t. c Coact will also he 111 , 1 d on other Special T.:10 J.IIIIES coBB, Suretrty. EAST-LNDId lIUJSB, Illarch 1, 1815. CO UR/ . of DIRECTORS of vie UNTIED GO:. r! . / Mi. Xi:HANTS f E4VGL4 ND, trading r 1.:3, da krek,-ive Actice, Tbat at the Quarterly Gent r.. 1 - Court of the said Company, .7po'ntetl to b.: held at tht.ir liotase in Ltatlenliall-strett, on aroNEALIY, the zt.'d at Eleven o'clock in the Fore ▪ a nawiou wall be made, " That Mr. WILLIA at BROWN, !at' ! tht• T.l i !ras Oval Establibliment, be permitted to return 'r-t, 10,1 rark tot CO!(B, EAST INDIA 1:OliSA, .111 arch 15, 1815.. TIHE COURT if DIRECTORS of the UNITED COAIPANT of NIEBCF!.4.INITS LNGLAND,tr.div die EAST INDIES, iv hardv,h..! n&ree, That at the ‘;‘,..rtttly General Court of the sal! Company, yi•oititill to he zt tLeir House in L.eadenhall.street, on i.I.)NitsDAY, at Eleven o'clock in the Fore. mottvii :t..dr, " That Mr. THOMAS ADRAIIAM, of the EstaL:idnnent, be permitted to return lath hie rank to toe.ta JAMES COBB, Secritory. .P.41(.1.141.V.EN1X22r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE Cr .1.G1 1 ./3 4 , MARCH 20 the counsel of the jut:!cial bu;ines,, their Lirlships gave at 11:I the ttiluvriug causeq: t.' Aro, Part. v. Ltr:l.Laz:%—gf.m!tue! islet fur !ortLer :nn t'e•;a,lcm. .nJ others v. Mra - dre.h—Revet. ed. 11. e rl ~ 1 Traquair v. L t -rased ai.dvilitri—Affevuted. I . .: , . v. Grant— Revtrstsl. " 11.1 .;• trfkipe thrm dur:r.f nd at Ire nelantd. ri , •;4!.act o Excise Duties Ti,r and one or tw.i nthers, were '•whr tr.in the Commt.ll4, and read a firc.•.;dir ;as Wore a btr of P:ivatt Btlle, }~~.aerated by lira C. lido:ox, J. L;r. K S. N , ar.clothrrs. Arco art of t h e q,, z ,,, :tt i e! Of Grain Imported into Great .:,an, the months of J:m.ary February, '4 ! P.',oishitig the countr:e6 the same W 4.4 imported from, Wit , ...!otttl the Bar by Mr. Itv.ng, the I,,sieetor Gracia, and tt..i on the taile. f.ccuutus from the Treasury %etre also presented by ' :.e. e..n=i , leration of the Treaty with America was, on the 01 :Lirtiplis Wirt.t.t..;Lty, vortpotiesi till aft, r the ceceas. Ig.NIL: MS IL C.',PECTINI; rlltt CORN 81l L. A v.ta varlety of these, the far gre.tter part of x!,!:11 w,ts ai;ainst the measure, vas presented by • tilt Peer:. A PtlUOfl , presented byVisccurit MELviw, from in Scotland, was, atter sonic convftirsation, IlltArawn, on the score of iotormality. Lai of CUMILEVILLE presented a Petition in Latour of the Corn Bill from the 'CoualY sat icatiow. The Duke of Sussof presented a retOott from ik verleY, in Yorkshire, against the morn: The Earl of HARROWS ! presented NOWA from Stafford, respecting the Corn 13ill. Earl of Cumtuvaut presented x Petition TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1815. from the County of Louth in favour of the Corn i Bill, which was rea d at l engt h, an d or d ere d to lie on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWVZ presented a Petition from one of the Irish Counties in favour of the Bill. These Petitions were severally ordered to lie on the table. Earl GREY presented a Petition, numerously signed (he observed), from the Staffordshire Pot teries, praying that the Corn Bill may not pass into a law. The circumstances in which this Petition was pre sented gave rise to a conversation of s►rne length.— It appeared that no signatures were affixed to the particular sheet on which the Petition was drawn, but that the •signaturei were on detached sheets.— After a few words in the way of explanation of this circumstance froukthe Noble Earl who presented the Petition— The LORD CHANCELLOR observed gene. l rally, that if any Noble Lord conceived that the ob. ' jections which he felt it his duty to make, with respect to some Petitions of the kind, proceeded from any view or wish of his to prevent such Petitions from being received, they had greatly mistaken him. He had no object therein but to exercise that duty he felt he owed to the House. He had merely but to state his objections, and it was fur the House to determine how tar they were valid. EarISTANHOPE conceived the question to be one of no common importance; if there were such an established rule as that alluded to more than once, it was fit that Petitioners should act up to it ; but he thought it could not be so, for he had known more than a hundred Petitions to have been received ender such circumstances as thy! present. The Earl of LIMERICK noticed the circumstance of a Petition from the County of Roscommon, in Ireland, in support- of the Bill, being rejected by the House, for the very reason the present was deemed inadmissible, and he thought it should shun the same fate. Earl GREY observed, that if there was a uniform established rule upon the subject, he should be one of the last to wish to depart from it. And at the same time he admitted, that what the Noble Lord on the Woolsack advanced, was in the execution of his duty. But were it only from what his Noble Friend (Earl Stanhope) had stated, from his own knowledge, he should conclude there was no such uniform rule, and he adverted to the rapid progress of the Bill as a reason why retitimiers had not suffi cient time or opportunity to proceed in a more regu lar and deliberate way. Viscount MELVILLE was of opinion, the rule and practice of the House should be strictly attend:al to on occasions of this kind. E•=rl STANHOPE poke in explanation. Earl BATHURST Gbserved upon the propriety of adhering to the Orders of the House. Lord GRENVILLE scenic(' to think the appli cation of die rule in the way it was proposed, to object it, could be attended with no cuavenicoce nr advantage, as signatures may be easily attached, so as to obvi de its contr, The LORD CHANCELLOR, in expllnation, argued, that if the signatures were to be phiced in separate sheets, as he had objected, it may very easily happen that 10,00) persons may sign, wh. , never saw the petition they professed to subscribe. All he could say as to the circumstances alleged by a Noble Earl, that a single petition of the kind never came through his hands without his having made the objection. He repeated, that he felt it his duty to point out the inflainality, and its possible effect. The rest their Lordships were to decide. Lord G VILLe and the LORD CHANCELLOR Spoke in further explanation. Earl GREY felt the question of so much import ance, that he should take the sense of the House upon it. The Earl of LIVERPOOL was of opinion, that such a question as the present could not be settled upon general principles, or upon general reasoning, but strictly upon precedent and practice—whatever was the general or understood practice of the House. He meant, when the attention of the House was called to such points, it should decide the present question. Earl GREY pressing for a decision, the House divided— Contents . 19 Nut Contents . 44 Majority azainst receiving the Petition SI Earl STANHOPE presented two Petitions from the County of Wilts, both very numerously signed, against the Corn Bill, and one from the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield to the same effect. His Lordship also presented Vetitioes Irom the Burgh of Stirling, from. Falkirk, and from the Pa rishes of St. An.:rew, Hoiboni, and St. Chine the Martyr. The Marquis or DOUGLAS presented several Petitions from different parts of Scotiand.. Lord GRENVILLE alio presented several Peti tions against the Bill--among which were one from the City of Bristol, signed by more than 4.2.000 per. i • sons, from Leicester, from Bishop Wearmoutle from C;osport, and from the town and neighbourhood of Paisley, which were ordered to lie on the, table. The Maiquis of BUCKINGHAM observed, k would be highly proper, before their Lordships should proceed to the. Order of the Day, to consider the effect of what had recently transpired, or had taken place. It appeared, there WAS a rule, not rest ing upon any standing Order of the Houle, but one of practice, which had been departed from in many instances, which had the effect of pfecluding the sen timents of numerous Petitions being. submitted to their Lordships. There was much difference of opi nion upon the point, in the Houle itself, and it was not to be expected the Petitioners could know more than their Lordships. On these gammas be tho u g ht these Petitioners should be allowed:tome furth e r time . and opportunity of -- appealing againtit a measure so prejudicial to their intertsts s and.in order to effect • . this, that the third reading of the Corn Bill should be postponed for a certain period. The Earl of LIVERPOOL difDrecl in opinion materially from the Noble Marquis, on the question to which he had referred. It clearly appeared that such an uniform general practice . cxisted, on every occasion in which the attention of the Hoose hid been called to the point. On those cases, Vien the objection had been made, the Petitions were uni formly not received, and such decision was of course known to their Lordships. They were bottnJ to pay every degree of proper attention to the Petitions of Iris Majesty's subjects, and such aca•r?ingly w.is the Oniforrn practice of the• House. But with all that respict, they were bound also to attend to the est t- Wished course of order of their own proceed*, ; and when Petitions should not be cnnf • cutiable to them, they c•wld not consistently receive them. On such a ground, therefore, he could not see the legit reason for postponing the third reading of the Bill referred to. A short conversation took place betucan the Earl, of DARNLEY and Viscount MTLVILLE, Uespcczing cer t:tin of the naval papers move J for by the ro:m..tr on a preceding day, and which vretet , not yet laid b:lore the House. The Noble Viscount briefly adverted to the impracticability cf producing those allttLlA to within the time, particulaily that which respected the expenses of the armaments on Lake o:ttarict. The Earl of DARNLEY then expnlssed his wish, if possible, that they could be prlduced before the Recess, so that they could be printed, mid their Lord. ships have an opportunity of considering them. THE CORN mu.. Their Lordships then proceeded to the Order of the Day (upon which they were summoned) for the third reading of this Bill. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM said he would take that last opportunity of protesting against a mea. ! sure so pregnant with injurious and alarming conse-, quences, as that now before the House. He ,hcold not trouble their Lordships with any detail:A argu ments upon the subject ; but would protest against the principle and details of the measure, and above all, against the rapidity with which it was carried through both Houses of Parli.tment. The Noble Marquis then generally touched upon some or the j leading topics which had been urged against the mea sure in former discussions, and urged their serious and attentive consideration to their Lordships, ere it was too late. For his pant, he had the satisfaction of feeling he had discharged his duty, and should' give the farther progress of the Bill his. decided ne gative. The EArl of WESTMORLAND answered the objections of the Noble Martinis at some; length. He defended the measure on several of those grounds on which it had !sects supported by Noble Lords on his side of the question, _aroi coptended fur tht necrts Aity ot . giving doe enc‘qtr...etnent to agriculittre, to coable the country to render herself independent of fortigners fur the supply of an article of the first nt:cessity. The Bill was opposed by the Earls CA Kr.isr.s and AsuarE, and by the Lords KING and Guasviu.k:. It was supported by the Earls BUCKINGIIANISIIIIM, I-Itrutown;, DARNLEY, LIVERPOOL, and LALDEIt- DALC, and by Lord REDE%/AI.E. Eall STANHOPE opposed the Bill, as pressing hard on the poor. The Noble Earl concluded hiNt opposition by the following sentence : ." 4 If ever I abandon the cause of the industrious plor, rwty Gitn in his vengeance abandon me : I will not temporise, but I move that this Bill tw rejected.'--A division took place at the end of the debate, when there appeared In favour of the Bill, NO—Against it, 21—/vla j, rity, 107. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed, and a Message ordered to acquaint the Commons therewith.—Adjourned at One o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMI)N3. • A Petition was presented from she Lord Provost of Edinburgh against the Scotch Jury Bill. A similar Pet.tion was presented from the County of Perth. The East India Sugar Bill went through a Committee. Re port to •niorrow. The Report of the Customs War Duties 13:1I was :treed to.— Third reading to-morrow. • 'The Excise War Duties Bill was passed. Sir 1. NEWPORT i'ostponed his notice relative to the Revee nue of Ireland till the .sth ot April. The False Weights and Measures Bill was read a second time, and committed for the 6th of April. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the several Resolutions agreed to. Mr. ROSE brought in a Bill for the better providing for the payment of Seamene Wages, and executing of Seanietis' Wills. Read a first, and ordered to be read a secosid time tai-morrow. 'I lie Pauper Lunatics' Bill was ordered to be rend a second time on Wednesday. Mr. ORENEELL, adverting to the state of the silver coinage, and also to the earl:mite issue which bad take,' place in various couinies, of wiper tuketo, which, as the law now btnod, the parties biting were DOC compelled to tak- again, it /sestet! his foraser observations on the state of our silver cola, wirch, lie said, in many instances, was deteriorated nearly half its value lie wished to suggest to the Chancellor uf the hx:-Itequ:•r, w:ae ther it would not be possible to adopt sense mt:asure to .ert vent the counterfeiting of silver coin ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEOVER said, it wined b. : difficult to adopt any permanent regulation on the set j,:c; of our silver coin, whilst the Bank Restriction lasted. One mode, however, of atio•titlieg it, would be, for the Bank ft) issue auk ,ts of a smaller value, to which he saw no objection. Some conversation took place between Sir I. NrWrOPT, Dr. DUICIChAN, Mr.WUJTCREto, tilt; CIIA.DCLI.LOR of the I.x::itc-, qI)E K , and Mr. AKeUTNNOT, on the subject of the Salary to the Auditor of the Naval A.ylum. The Resolution, however, wAs til,nuattly agreed to. kif 2 < OCR FOREIGN RELATIONS. Mr. WHITBREAD rose, pursuant to his notice, to submit a motion to the House on' the subject of ou:- foreign relations, and-the transactions of the Con ioess at Vienna. Thw4loble Lord in the Blue Ribband, who was now particularly the objecrol his attention on this occasion, had been run ning a brilliant career of several months.—(Hear, hear).—Selected, as that Noble Lard had been, by his colleagues, and approv d by his Prince, not one of his political opponents had objected to that ap pointment. He had run a career of glory ; but not one opportunity which the Noble Lord had enjoyed PRICE Srxrtmcr-nAispr. of distinguishing himself, was i,t his (Mr bread's) opinion so much to be envied as was that now afforded him, returned as he was, a Commoner, to take his seat amongst his fellow CAmmoners, of giving an expl !nation of his conduct, and clearing it from those misrepresentations, if such they were, which had gone abroad respecting him. —He (Mr. Whitbread) sincerely wished the Noble Lett] might he able so to explain himself and his conduct, as that he might retire from the House with the same marks ot unanimous approbation With which he had been re ceived on a former occesien. It mieht here been tx pected, however, that when the hreht! Lord went to ti:e Continent a tecend time, that he would net have re turned without completing the great wort: en thick he had been sere ; and that he weirld have cnte'ed the House with a Ticaty in his hind ready pi epa!erl, to give to the Him a and to the country that erhla nation which all were so anxiously loekieg for. The Noble Lord might certainly have been prepare:l fer such a commemeation. Fle had no lack of Minhtere or Co:lntel at the Congress. He v th,le, as it might be sale, in the inhidle if his family ; eli!ct it was rather a slur on these persons, a d she g nat lens they pos s e s sed, that as soon as the No ble heed quitted Vienna he was ohliged cell the Deice ~ f Wellington froei Paris to sopely hi, place, and c m plete the work which he h.id begee. Thh. preceed ing was singitlar. The Duke of Wellington had been sent to Paris, and it it was neciesery he sheuld be sent there, it was neccss try he slumhi have tend tinued there, and not have been called away te re place the Noble Lord at Congress ; though, perhaps, it was fortunate that the Noble Duke was absent, under the existing circumstances in France. But not to look at the present situation of Continental affeirs, but to consider what it was when the Noble Lord left Vienna, it was indeed singular that he should have been called away ; and it might have been supposed, that now he was returned, be would hive been anxious to display all he had done—to spew that he had well • performed his task—and that net only in words, but in deeds, he had sought the liberation of 'Europe.— (Heer.)—The Noble Lord had chosen to leave it to him an individual to call on him for explanation, and to state to him what had been done in his absence. The charges which had been made against the Noble Lord in his absence had been deschbed by his col leagues as personal ; that they were so he (Mr. Whitbread) denied. The Noble Lord had Cqlli• plained of so many questions h tying been put 'luring his absence, and whilst negociations were going ot. ; did the Noble Lord forget the continence seinen hid been placed in him during his turner absence in Paris ? No questions were wen put ; on the contrary, adjournment after adjournment had been agreed to until the Noble Lord returned. There, however, nothing had taken place which called for questions —bin not so here. On the present occesion state ments had appeared; armies had been marching; people had seta the partition of Europe; it might almost be called the regeneration of Europe, and that without waiting the termination ot the delibera tions of the Congress. Lately, instead of cries of exultation, nothing had reached us but exclaim aliens of despair ; and, under these cheumstences, notwith standing the Noble Lord's absence, he, for one, had thought it his duty to ask questions and to seek infor mation. Perhaps the Noble Lord's colleagues might have complained of his not leiving furnished them with better materials ter answerieg the vestioes which had been put to them. Perhcps they might have informed him that bey had repe:irtdly said, in reply to thesquestions which had been hut to them, that they had stated the Noble L 'rd week:, on his return, explain every thing te the Ilteihe ; and data' for them and himself a well-earned triumph. The House had frequently been told this ; they had also been told, that 'on the hi-Ask Lo:d's return all the Papers relative to Genoa and Poland would be pro duced ; this a Right Hon. Friend of the Noble Lerd's had promised ; but that promise it WAS afterwards found convenient to retract. The Right Honourable Gentleman was informed he had gone toe far; and on a subsequent occeson, he begged the House to forget all he had said on the occasion. There was no wish however on his (Mr. Whitbread's) part to oelige that Right Hon. Gentleman to retire from his official situation, although he had tailed to redeem his pledge; nor had a single question been put ler the purpose of embarrassing Ad menstretien ; who, • when the Noble Lord was absent, appeased tot pee sess no arms with which to entet into the combat. Ho and those who acted with him had pout certain gins. tions, because they saw a system about to be adepted which gave dissatisfaction to all the Continent, and was in fact the system of him whom the thief ts of the Allies had removed ; and it was for the purpose of enter;:;}; a protest against such a system tat tries- Lions hid been put. The Noble Lord had s aid, the great Powers or the C o ntinent had been celuirseiated in the assertions which had gone abroad. He (Mr. Whitbread) had papers which he wished to subeiit to the coeseteration of the House, on ehhif he h ad emaded his assertions. Ir these papers were not, u• theistic, then Congress had been calttor.i.ord ; bet if they were authentic, then the Ailed Pewers ot the Noble Lord had not been eelumnieted, and the he e h tion s which had been put were jestiiiable. The Noble Lord would not deny th it the Ailed Sove reigns had advancedinto Fiance—he would not deny the declarations of their Generals, whilst acivaocing, that they did not come for conquest, either there or elsewhere ; but that having reduced Fiance to her o ld limits, they would then give peace to the world. The NotithLuici would net deny the declaration of Frankfort, and other declarations of a sunder nature —what position could be conceived so grand as that ot the allied Sovereigns on Mont M .rrtrc, mar Paris; if they had died there, they would lc eve died hn the summit of glery. But, hom what had since tressed it appeared, that they had f orgo:ten a ll t h e i r tot mec declarations, and had immediately proceeded to tread in the steps of him they had overthrown; and since that tare nothing but the pilfering, paultry, is C 1 ii 7 ik 7- 1 ,' . . Y -• . ..4- Vef ICI a 1i.. 1 g/1 Pair t ifirMit I . 1 Nit's :.....-...-=0 , r. Whit- i 'I I