Star. — London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

'.trt ! IIPP s. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. ' HOUSE OF LORDS, JANUARY 31. The Royal Assent was notified by Commission to the Habeas Corpus Suspension Repeal Bill. The Commissioners were, the Loan CHANCEIIOII4 the Mail of SearvLaeiT, and Lord Viscount Mn.vitts.—Adjeurned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Th e House was summoned to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to the Bill for repeating the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The SPEAKER, on his return, acquainted the House that the Royal Assent had been given to the slid Act. The SPEAKER also acquainted the House, that, in pursu ance of the Act of the 42d George 111. respecting contested Elealoris, he had received from Thomas Boucher, Esq. a list of Barristers of six years standing at the Irish Bar, competent to act as Commissioners or Chairmen, under the provisions of the said Act.—Ordered to be deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the House. Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved, that there should be laid before the House an Account of all Exchequer Bills issued under the 57th Geo. 111. c. 2, entitled " An Act for raising twenty-four millions for the service of his Majesty for the year 1817," out sanding and unprovided for.—Ordered. A similar Account, respecting Nine Millions of Exchequer Bills issued at a later period of the same year, was also ordered. The Accounts were immediately brought up, and laid on the table. The Irish Grand Jury Presentment Suspension Bill went through a Comnsittee, was reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. CON VICTO UNDER SENTENCE OT DEATH IN NEWGATE. Mr. BENNET moved that there should be laid before the House a Return of the number of Persons, male and female, now under Sentence of Death in Nesvgate; distinguishing their ages, the dates of their sentences, and the crimes of which they were Con victed. He was induced to make this motion in con sequence of there being at this moment iixty-fiie or sixty-six persons under sentence of death in the gaol in question ; and from his having understood from his lklajesty's Ministers during the last Session, that an arrangement would be made for reporting the persons convicted in one Session before the other commenced. The situation of the unhappy persons to whom he alluded was truly miserable, and their treatment more than inhuman. They were confined together in cells nine feet five inches long by seven feet wide, and in these places they were shut up six teen hours out of the four-and-twenty: they were all mixed together indiscriminately, the young with the old, and thus the young had the opportunity of learn ing nothing but the trade of preying on their fellow creatures. He could not help thinking the House had a right to expect that his Majesty's Ministers would have attended to their pledge. If there was not room sufficient in the gaol for the accommodation of its inmates, application should be made to Parliament on the subject. He did not want to interfere with ivhat might be considered the province of the City of London ; but if they did not think proper to bring the matter forward, he 'should feel it his duty to do so. He desired it to be distinctly understood as not mean ing, by his present observations, to cast the least re flection on Mr. Brown, the present gaoler of New gate, who, he verily believed, had done more for the amelioration of the situation of his prisoners than had been done since the time of Mr. Howard. On the question being put from the Chair, Alderman ATKINS said, it was extremely to be regretted that the condemned cells in the gaol of Newgate were only calculated for the reception of forty persons. It never was anticipated that there would be occasion for more accommodation. With regard to making Reports of one Session before the other commenced, he begged to state, that this was impossible. The interests of the unhappy criminals frequently required that time should be taken to de liberate on their cases, and to make inquiries as to their characters, often in distant parts of the country. The Reports were made as often as it was expedient. Mr. BENNET, in answer to the last. observation mittee was peculiarly necessary, and would in all probability sit. often and Mn enough, since his Ma. heity's Ministers had thought it proper not to advise is Royal Highness to say one single word on the subject of economy and retrenchment in the Speech from the Throne, which it was intended to refer to such Committee. From this be inferred, and he feared too truly, that it was not intended by his Ma jesty's Ministers this Session even to preserve those appearances of attention to economy which they found it necessary to preserve in the last year, but that they meant rather to screw up the taxes to the expenditure, than to adapt the expenditure to the abilities of the country. That this remark, which he lamented to be obliged to make, became now peculiarly important in consequence f the increasing probability that Mi nisters would shortly send the Members of the House to meet their _ constituents by a speedy dissolution, of the Honourable Gentleman, stated, that the Re corder had been ready for some time with his last Report; that the delay took place on the part of his Majesty's Government. The delay, therefore, did not rest with the Recorder. The motion was then put and carried. PENSIONS TO INSPECTORS OF TAXES. Mr. BENNET moved, first, for an Account of all Pensions or retired Allowances granted to Inspectors of Taxes, or Clerks in Tax Offices, distinguishing such Officers , the one from the other ;. and for an Account of all Exchequer Bills issued between the Ist of January, 1817, and the Ist of January, 1818, spe cifying the Acts of Parliament under which they were issue the dates of their issue, their amount, the terms on which the issues were made, and how applied. At the suggestion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, the Honourable Gentleman withdrew his motion, and desired that they might stand as notices for Tuesday.—House resumed—Report on Monday. BANE TOKENS. Mr. CURWEN begged to know whether any steps had been taken, to secure those persons from loss who might chance to have Bank of England Tokens, which had been of so much use so the public, in their possession after the period appointed by the Bank for their recall ; and whether they' would not be received in payment by the Receivers of Taxes ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the question of the Honourable Gentleman was not easy to answer. The receivers of ' Taxes would no doubt receive the Bank Tokens as long as the, Bink world receive them, but he was not prepared to say they would do more. He understood there had been some communication from the Bank of England on the subject to the Country Bankers, with a view to facilitate the exchange of tokens for occasioned solely by a desire to hive a new Parlia ment, that would be snore inclined to add to the pre sent weight of taxation than an old Parliament could be expected to be. He trusted, however, that the peAple of this country would be aware of this pur pose, and laying aside all attention to other political distinctions, would strictly inquire of every candidate whether he meant to give his support to measures of economy that might lower the expenditure to the in come, or to rase the income to the expenditure, by adding to the taxes already so burthensome and even insupportable ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought, after the pledge he had given to bring the state of the finances of the country before the House in a substantial shape, that he might have spared his observations. The House would, no doubt, be as much alive to economy, and pay as great a regard to the public interests at the , present season as at acy former period. Mr. BROUGHAM could not agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman that his Honourable Frend's ober• vations were uncalled for. It was true that they were to have a Committee of Finance, but when they re collected how much they had benefited from that Committee before, he was not disposed to place much reliance upon its exertions (hear). In the Speech which had been delivered from the Throne, as his Honourable Friend had justly stated, there was • allusion whatever to retrenchment or economy. All they had to do, therefore, was to avail themselves of the experience of last year, when economy and re trenchment were recommended by his Majesty ; and comparing that with the present year, where there was no such recommendation, form a conclusion as to what their expectations might fairly be (hoar). He trusted that the Howe and the country would keep a watchful eye upon those Gentlemen (his Majesty's Ministers), and that they would, by a strenuous ef fort, during the few weeks which yet remained to them, endeavour to reduce the intolerable hurdle= under which the people groaned. The House then resolved into the Committee. The Estimates for the current year were laid before the Committee; and, on the motion of the CHANCEL -1.011 of the EXCHEQUi, it was resolved—" That a supply be granted to his Majesty." INCOMII TAX. Mr. BROUGHAM wished-to know from the Right Honourable Gentleman, if the promise made two years ago, that all documents relating to that odious impost, the Income Tax, which the exertions of the House had got rid of, and which he hoped never to see restored, had been destroyed as far as possible? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that all the documents alluded to by the Ho nourable Gentleman had been destroyed. OP THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT. Mr. BENNET presented a Petition from Mr. Ben bow, a person who was apprehended under the Sus pension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and confined for eight months in Coldbath-fields Prison, praying for such redress as the House in its wisdom could grant him. The Honourable Gentleman stated the sub- stance of the Petition, observing, that the Petitioner was one of those perso ns who had been dragged, without guilt, and rit into prison by his Majesty's 11. misters. He said, without guilt—because he took it for granted, from the experience they had of those Gentlemen's mercy, that if they imagined he were guilty, he would have been brought to trial.— When this person was examined before Lord Sid mouth, that Noble Lord had promised that he should have a fair trial ; that he should have Counsel as signed him, and be furnished with a copy of the in dictment against him, and a list of witnesses. This pledge had, however, never been redeemed ; and be, along with others—.a thing unprecedented, he believed, in an English Court of Justice—were now found entreating to be tried for high treason, the crime with which they were charged. While in pri son the letters of his wife were suppressed, and, in fact, every species of oppression was heaped upon him. His poverty was such, that he was under the necessity of asking for clothes of his gaoler, who in sulted him by offering him the clothes apportioned to felons. The petitioner was one of those who had refused to enter into recognizance on the Ist of Ja nuary, and who was discharged on the 20th of the same month without recqgnintnre. If it were just to call for his recognizance on the Ist, it was equally just to make the same demand on the 20th. The demand, however, was not made, and hence he in ferred an admission of its injustice. The petition was then brought up, read, and or dered to lie on the table.—Adjourned. other money. BOROUGH or CRIMARIDOIL--011 Tuesday last Mr. Mr. CUR WEN said, that so as means were taken WISITTRID, a Barrister of Lincola's lan, obtained in to secure the public from loss, he was satisfied. the Court of King's Bench, a Rule to shew cause why SUPPLY. a Mandamus should not issue to the Mayor of Cani ne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ,bridge, to admit him to the freedom of that borough moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving as the only surviving son of a freeman, his brothem into a Committee of Sapply. He desired it might having died before they attained the age of 21 years be understood that the object ha had now in view The question turns upon the construction of the words was merely to adopt the usual form of taking into filly: note maxima:. For eighty years past they have consideration that part of his Majesty's Speech which I been construed in the Corporatio n to me an eld es t son , referred to the Supplies for the year. It was always I and the custom has been to admit the eldest son de customary to refer this subject to a Committee of! facki to the freedom, Sir John Mortlock, however, Supply the day succeeding that on which the Speech who is a distinguished L a ti n sc h o l ar , con t en d s t h at itself had been taken into consideration. He had I the English of filler rata maxima is " first bong adopted the earliest opportunity of pursuing this son," and not eldest son, resists Mr, Whittred's claim course. If it were intended to enter into any discus- on that ground. It appeared by the statement of sion it would , perhaps be fitter to defer the question M r . Tomato, who was Counsel for Mr. Whittred, till Monday. On the question being put, that the present Town Clerk of Cambridge and his Mr. SHARP said, he had not risen for the purpose predecessor, both of whom were admitted to their of opposing the motion, or even raising a discussion freedom, were precisely iu the same situation as Mr. • for it was plain enough that such a Com- Whittred. IP 4 upon it • • At ••,1 , • \ • •,.••• Ag„, .; . • • • • 1 DUTCH MAILS. FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIERS, JANUARY 20. The Duke of Wellington is expected back at Cam bray ♦ery shortly. If we may believe the general report, the affairs which the Duke has to negociate in England are two fold, first, to deliberate respect ing the application of the French Government for the speedy withdrawing of the troops of the Army of Occupation ; or, if the Allies will not agree to withdraw the whole, for a considerable diminution, to obtain which a very urgent representation has lately been addressed to the Allied Powers: the se cond object of the Duke's journey is supposed to be some proposals respecting the British corps in France, in particular. The issue of these discussions is of course expected with impatience. Since the departure of the Duke, numerous couriers from dif ferent Courts have arrived at Cambray, who have immediately followed him to London. Cambray is now very lively, and the French Authorities keep up the best understanding with the foreign troops. On account of the debates respecting the Law for recruiting the army, and the probability of its pass ing, people begin again to look publicly at the efforts that are to be made to reduce the Island of St. Do mingo under the dominion of France, which, as it is said, have been hitherto deferred on account of the unfavourable situation in which France was placed. It is supposed, that as soon as the army is complete, volunteers will be invited for this expedition, and particularly that the legion of Prince Liohenloe will be employed in it. It is affirmed, also, that several Officers of distin guished talents have been lately consulted on. the plan by the Minister of War, and that there were several among them who were perfectly will ac quainted with the local circumstances of that bland. More vigorous measures than ever are now em ployed in France against desertion. Deserters are daily brought into the several chief fortresses. The exchange of couriers between the Russian, British, and Prussian Governments, is extremely frequent. Couriers with dispatches of more or less importance, i daily pass through Calais to or from Dover. MOSCOW, DECEMBER ss. Our Emperor has judged the excesses committed on the Wartburg, near Eisenach, worthy of his at tention, and caused his Ambassadors at Vienna and Frankfort to make urgent remonstrances, as well re specting this event, as the increasing licentiousness of the Press in Germany. PETERSBURGH, JANUARY 7. We learn that his Majesty is expected here from Moscow about the 27th of this month, and that he will soon after go to Warsaw. The Court remains at Moscow till February. The value of corn exported from Russia, in the course of the last year, amounts to one hundred and twenty-ive millions of roubles. HAGUE, JANUARY 2.2. SITTING OF THE SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL To-day the Chamber deliberated on the represen tation of Mr. Kemper, respecting the Petition of Messrs. Guyet and Cauchois Lemaire, who complain ed of being injured in their civil rights. Messrs. Kemper, D'Otrenge, Membrede and others, spoke at some length on the subject. All declared their opinions, that the desire of the Petitioners that the Assembly should take up their affair was unfounded, and proved that neither the law of nature, nor the law of nations, nor the fundamental law of the Ne therlands, had been infringed in respect to them ; that his Majesty had the power to permit foreigners to abide in the kingdom, and to revoke that permis sion as reasons of State required ; and that the Peti tioners had not ceased to be foreigners. The As sembly being again opened at seven o'clock it the evening, several Members having again spoken, it was unanimously resolved, on calling over the names of the Members, that the Petition of Messrs. Guyet and Cauchois Lemaire could not be a subject of de liberAtion. It was then debated, whether grounds should be assigned for the resolution of the Chamber, which was negatived by a majority of 50 votes to 37, after which the Chamber adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1818. PURIFICATION or TIM Vow Maaa..—Hohday at the Dank, Excliquer„ and South-Sea House. THE FUNDS. Consols for to-morrow 714, and for the account 79. It is reported, that Irons Twenty-five to Thirty Mallow of Exchequer Bills are to be funded. On Saturday the Bill for Repealing the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act received the Royal Assent. In the Court of King's Bench, on the same day, die roniesv-GineznaL moved that all the Recogni zances entered into by the parties who were lately liberated after being confined under the said Act, be discharged, and they were discharged accordingly.— Thus has terminated the late suspension of one of the principal bases of our happy Constitution—a Consti tution which is the envy of the world. However ne cessary this or any former suspension of the laws may have beet, or may be supposed to have been, we shall ever regret every recurrence to this measure ; for, like morbid attacks on the natural body, though the patient may in the common sense of the term re cover from the shock, nothing can be more certain than that the constitution is thereby undermined to a certain extent, and the day of its dissolution brought nearer, exactly in proportion to the number of such shocks. It is strongly rumoured that a Commercial Treaty is on the lapis with the Spanish Government, and Dearly brought to a termination ; the stipulations of which are expected, in some degree at least, to com pensate this country for the sum of 400,0001. to be advanced by us to Spain, under an article of the late Treaty for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. It is said, that we are to obtain, under this new arrange- w .~..~. ~~--~_ went, the benefit of a direct traffic, ou of moderate duties, with the trans-marine of Spaiu. The Letter from the Emperor of RI Duke of WELLibinrox, requesting him fluence in favour of France against the, to the Allies and their subjects, of which laid a copy before our Readers, was a Memorial, which was communicated, time, to all the Allied Courts, and of , the Court of the Thuilleries. It is mein the political circles in Paris, but it has fished. This Memorial, after a mint of the claims made on France, by wh appear that the payment of them reduce that nation to bankruptcy, ct paragraph, entitled " Fete de l'Esvipetew " In this vote or opinion, the Ear/moos says, , rests were concerned bot those of his awn subjrcts Russian), he should be willing, as in other instances, his claims altogether ; but that those claims being selves, and such as be can have no controul over discharged, subject however to such reduction French Govcnunent au to discharge them. Th e bons, at the same time, his Allies not to suffer to produce any disunion between them Ile • the retie du mid, meaning probably thereby I Isinistn, is ever watching the opportunity of i 7 , and destroying the work which their meemplished ; and finally recommends that With all the messepor due to her situation; ... sandy, as far as Us her lies, all just claims upon tie lead resistance on her part would meet • sited and severe punishment? In this document it is recommen, nisters of the Allied Powers in Pan! subject of their claims; that they take sideration the statements of M. de RI( they subject the claim to a new Int order to put aside all such as are not private nature ; that this being gone M. de RICHELIEU'S representation beint whole of the claim undergo a general be borne in a due proportion by all the To those who argue from this docu (perfect understanding exists between British Governments, it is replied, that tion to the Duke of WELLtucrrow is the part of Russia, by which she takes merit of a liberal suggestion, whether or rejected. The Dutch Mails which were dui night, and brought papers and letters from which we have given extracts in According to these Papers, the late Duke of Wats.tivorox to London, had urgent demands of the French to remove the Army of Occupation—and some proposal, ing the British corps d'artnee in particular, may credit these accounts, the French the reduction of St. Domingo—mad attempt ! A Hambnrgh Mail also arrived this we have accounts that the E►triaoa has directed his Ambassadors at Vienna fort, to remonstrate against the violence dents at Wartburg, and against the inc tionsness of the press in Germany. A letter from Hanover, dated the 1 " A General Order so the Army hu been , mend of the Duke of Cambridge, announcing , cers of the Landwerh have been dismissed Erw having taken presents in the affairs of the service will In future be punished according to the his Royal Highness hopes, that the present , warning to all Officers, particularly the younger perienced among them." The marriage of the Duke is said the 24th February. The Paris Papers to Thursday last arrived since our last. The Chamber of Deputies are proceedia consideration of the Recruiting Bill tide. An Amendment of the Committee, Article has been adopted with a verbal namely, that the. French army shall voluntary enlistment ; but, if that should cient, by a levy. Count BZUGNOT amendment, that no young man should before be is 40 years of age, without parents or guardians. That amendment by 130 to 92. A long discussion took period of service, which was, however. cording to the original Projet. Another discussion of some length the amendment for making the successi' dependent on an annual vote of the ' M. JOLLIVET on that moved the prey' The army, he said, ought not every yt at the discretion of the Chambers. The of their forces was necessary to preserve cal equilibrium. It was a kind of pendi ought to produce a perfect equality. thought they ought not to confound army with the contingent necessary fol The first was permanent, while the second able from necessity. He supported M. CAI:MARTIN, after M. de Sr. CRICQ the previous question, expressed his one would oppose the annual vote wi a just idea of a representative Govern, haps by those who had, but who interest wished them not to enjoy ii enjoy a representative Government, e t:inthe r 4 y„ •v 0 kou Resits l I • dm to use he papaw,: • 1101 1 whi c h we s, - aceompaaeee acco tted, at the lost, of course nentioned as not bee, innte , r w hi c h it sem q as ho concludes 131/1 orresir :" "ITS: rill/ it t thi subject, , p . r iratuues, Ut being jun POI I over, the. frt) MI as maY The L oh., )re after thole • e am a nita them, . ay di: 'l soy* in then *Ta s tt it France In 3: but the 1p I upm her ; tad c tt with the ese 5 %V ded t h at fze of axis meet of ke int o 66: sat fticnEurs . tiro investigaim le si not str i ct i ti 'le through, nit ring admixes,. rev eral reductz, the claimant; h:ic document th n t h e Russian Air that thi s ap ,. , to • din is a mere out &es t o tber it b e aJ , • • due attired . BA rs to the 29 t h Y n another col•. late visit of had respect t o vo !move or - e proposal, t. • )articular. If ach still nad and • in n 1 last night l'aitoit of Rr • vi tenna and F Acme of the e increasing .1 17th ult. sari, " 3 Published, by "g that auto, front the tertitt twice : all welt . Sigin UM; nt SUMO' Wig • nnger and meet id to be tiled ast inclusive Li oceediag with • • ill Article by . • mime, on the Thal asnenthr.% • I be rtcruited should be •„ it moved, as ihould be enlist Put consent of 'mime Ras rejtcat )ok place as tont ever, adopted e ',th took place ci c essi ve conting the Legiylaturt— prey previous gael&l , I year to lx. piat d The permanerl eserve their poli4 pendulum whin itY• M. Brut,Not Fund the efectio r for supporting e second was vu d the annu.tl rots UCQ had supportd is opinion that DO who had formed vernment ; or re , ) by sentiment et Tit.- If they ail the right of ar.•