Star. — London, England, 1818-03-20 00:00:00

4444 % `4l. • • • PARLIAMENTARY %.PROCEEDINGS. .. , i. , •••.---Ip.. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 19. The R Aiscnt was declared by Commission to the Bank Tohene' the iS ilkniand Fishery Oaths' Bill, the Scots o Aqua Vitx r t 'cruces, and to Five Bills of a Private 'or Local description. The Lords Commissioners were, the Loan Cuawczkcoa, the Duke of Morraoor, and the Earl of Snarrsantrar. - The Earl of BESBOROUGH presented a Petition from the Corporation of Cutlers and others of the Town of Sheffield, and the Inhabitants of the District called Hallamshlre, contiguous thereto, in favour of the Chimney-sweepers' Regulation Ball.— Ordered to be referred to the Lords' Committees on the said Bill. Mr. TossiiNs, front the Vice Treasurer of Ireland's Office, presented an Account of the number of Warrants which passed through that Depariment in the year ending Jan. 5, 1818. Mr. Ckaaci, from the Privy Council Office, presented an Ac count of the state of the Churches and Parishes, the number of resident Incumbents, Curates, &.c. in fingland and Wales, pur suant to a recent order of the House. Mr. Joinssoe, from the Chief Secretary for Ireland's Mace, presented the Sixth Report of the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts in that part of the United Kingdom. These Documents were severally ordered to be laid on the table. The Longitude Act Amendment Bill was brought up from the Commons, and read the first rime. Mr. Scan, from the Chamber of the Cit of London, pre sented an Account of the Expenditure of the hans' Fund,and also sundry other Accounts from the said , which were laid.upon the table. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the third reading of the Bath Gas Light BBL The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, what he principally rose for was to observe, that he had strong reason to suspect the Cor poration were not latterly so careful in purifying the Gas as they had been at first ; the consequence was, that in many cases the tuba became so foul as not to afford a free or adequate passage for the stream of gas. If such a circumstance were to become general, it would not only go to deprive the metropolis of light, but, iu fact, be of dangerous consequence to the inhabitants themselves. Ile thought it but proper to state this thus pub licly, in the hope that those cono:•rned may be careful in endea vouring to obviate what was complained of. The Earl of SliA FTESBURY stated, that the present, like all other Bills of the kind, contained a clause, authorising the prosecution of the parties in the case of such misconduct. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, the most effectual way would be to enact a clause, that in case of such misconduct the Corporation should be dissolved. The Bill was then read the third time, and passed. The Agricultural Horse Duty Bill was read the second time. The Hone! then, on the motion of the Earl of tinArrEsauay, adjourned (for the Easter recess) until that day fortnight. HOUSE. OF COMMONS. About half-past three the House being summoned to that of the Peers, the Seeamme, accompanied by some Members, at tended, and on his motion, iaformed the House of the Royal Assent baying been given to several Public and Private Acts— (for which see the Peers' Report). Mr. Junt.srose, from the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, presented the Sixth Report of the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts for Ireland.—Ordered to he on the table. Several other public accounts and papers were presented. Mr. SWA N presented the Report of the Committee on the Waterloo Bridge Petition, which was agreed to. An I , ..count was presented of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Orphans' Fund. ........--.—.. . . . _ Genera TIIORNTON said, that towards the close of the last Session he had given notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a BLS for the Suppression of Public Masque raies ; but, flora communications with several Members, having tcason to suppose that he should have no chance of success, he begged leave to withdraw his notice. The Mock Auction Fraud Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on the 3d of April. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved—" That the Time at its rising do adjourn to Thursday the 2d of April."—Agreed to. Sir W M CURTIS moved—" That part of the Order i directing Returns of the Amount and Fatpenditure of the Funds of the City of London, Accounts of the lit idge House Fstates, &c. as far as related to the latter, be rescinded." He was of opinion that the Honourable Member (Mr. 11. Sumner) bad gone too far in this motion ; as it would seem to require the production of the contents of the Title Deeds under which these Estates were held. Mr. D. SUMNER explained, that he never had any Idea of its being necessary to produce the Title Deeds, and consequently lEt had no objection to the motion of the worthy Baronet. Ills object WAS to have an account of the Amount and Expen diture of the M oneyi arising from the Bridge House Estates. The part of the Order in question being rescinded, . Sir WILLIAM CURTIS then moved in lieu of it—" That an Account be laid before the liinise of the produce of certain Estates called the Bridge House Estates, for five years, ending the 27d of December, 1817, with the uses for which the sums have been invested." After a short explanatory conversation between the SPEACLII, Alderman Aranis, and Mr. Hose Strom, the Motion was agreed to. Sir M. W. RIDI.EY presented a Petitloo from the Inn keepers of North Shields, complaining of the heavy License Llaties.---Read and ordered to fie on the table. Mr. PELL moved fur leave to bring in a Bill to alter the pt.nishment for Private Stealing in Ireland, which was now ci.,.med felony without benefit of Clergy. His object was to repeal and amend this part of the criminal code.— agreed to, and the hill brought in, and read a first time. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved the Order of the Day for a Committee on the Privately Stealing in Shops' Bill, for Eng land ; which being agreed to, the blanks were filled up.—Report on Friday, April 3d. The Innkeepers' Allowances Bill was read a second time. Lord A. HAMILTON moved fur an Account of all Persons who held the offices of Commissaries and Conunissaries Clerks in FKAti4IICI on the nth day of Jane, 1814, as also the authority on whi.:h such appointments were made, and the salary rce.ived by each Person, as far as such accounts can be made out.— Agreed to.—Adjourned to Thi.rsday, April 2d. A return of the Offices held under the Crown now granted in reversion, has just been printed ; and in addition to the grant of the Rangership of Bagshot Park in reversion to the Duchess of (iLoucEsTxn, we find that the reversion of the Clerk and Keeper of the Register of Sasines at Edinburgh was granted to' WILLIAM DUNDAS, Esq. on the `2sth January, 1806, OR the death of ROBERT DUNDAS, Esq; In Ireland the reversionary office of Chief Remem brances of the Court of Exchequer was granted on the 20th November, 1800, CO RICHARD Ai' ELLESLEY, Esq. on the death of the Marquis WELLESLEY ; of the office of Craner and Wharfinger of the Port of Dublin, to Lord Gnome Szvmous CONWAY, dated 7th August, 1802, on the death of Lord HENRY' SEYMOUR CONWAY, during the lives of Lord GEORGE SEYMOUR CONWAY, and GEORGE HAMILTON SEY MOUR CONWAY; and the office of Second Remem branceT of the Court of Exchequer to lIUGH STEWART and MEnvym STEWART, Esqrs. sons of Sir JOAN STEWART, Bart. dated the 26th March, 1805, on the death of RICHARD Earl of DONOUGIIMORIL By an account of the total net produce of the Re- I venue of Great Britain and Ireland, distinguishing that of Great Britain and that of Ireland, in each of the years ending sth of January, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1314, 1815, 16'16, 1817, and 1818, it appears that the total Revenue for Great Britain and Ireland was, in 1817, 61,675,327!. Is. 9}cl. and in 1818, 51,629,6091. 14s. 8-}d. The separate Revenue of Ireland was, in 1817, 4,314,6001 14s. 214. and in I'llB, 4,352,130/. 16s. being an excess of Revenue in the last year of 38 1 000/. beyond the Revenue of the preceding . year. Our Readers recollect the con fident predictions of a falling off in the last year in Inland beyond the former one. The year # lBlB com prehends the Income Tax. The QUESTION betteeen the COTTON SPIN- NEES and their LABOURERS, TO TIM EDITOR OF TIM STAR. Sin—Sir RODIIRT PEEL'S Bill, now under the con. sideration of Parliament, which involves the grand question at issue between the Owners of Cotton F AC tOries , on one hand, and the Friends of Hum A N I ry on the other, touching the extreme men.snres of labour at present imposed on children and others entplved in those Factories, is calculated to interest the feelings of every man whose heart is alive to the cause of truth and justice, and open to the tender claims of weak ness and of youth. As one who is not insensible to any of these impressions, and feels besides some re gard for the reputation of the town of Manchester, I beg to offer a few reflections on this most important and interesting subject to the notice of the candid and the humane. And that I may not lose sight of JUSTICE in re membering MERCY, let me first profess that, deeply as I deplore the evils of a system which seems to me to rival in wretchedness that of a slave plantation un der the torrid zone, yet am I far from imputing cruelty of disposition to the owners of cotton mills in discriminately. That there are amongst them Gen tlemen of enlarged minds and real benevolence, I am disposed to believe, and it is the more lamentable to reflect, that the associations of habit and self-inte rest should have power to warp even the gentlest na tures, and blind the most virtuous and honourable minds. It is on this principle no doubt, that we are to account for the line of conduct which, I under stand, has been adopted by the proprietors of these establishments, in strenuously opposing the Bill now before the House of Commons, for curtailing the present exorbitant hours of labour ; for surely those are exorbitant hours, which oblige children of even six, seven, and, eight years, to toil in heated rooms fur FOURTEEN and FIFTEEN hours in a day, and grudge the little labourers the fresh air of Heaven, ant the noon-tide rest, e:!j7yed by the very beasts of burdcn.— There is a written law, Sir, that will not, I am sure, be denied by the Gentlemen in question, Which says, " A good man is merciful to his beast." How much rather, I would ask, will he be merciful to his ser vants ? Put the case, then, that those servants are CHILDREN, how gentle and how just will be the good man's authority over the meekest and the gentlest of the human race ! But this is a strange world, and so ciety teems with contradictions. There seems to be something in the nature of a cotton mill, I know not whether it be steam or bad air, or the scintillations of lucre amidst the precious flocks, that can work up . . . _ into activity the worst parts of our nature, and deface the best, so that the warp of human kindness (to speak in the idiom of " the trade,") shall become, as it were, lost in the nifyl of sordid gain, and the man be no longer recognized in the manufacturer. Certain it is, be the cause what it may, that in those towering buildings where art and science contend for pre-emi nence, and illumination bursts from an hundred win dows, which are the property and under the control of persons not wanting, in general, either in virtue or philanthropy in those splendid fabrics ; I say, practices are resorted to, and miseries engendered, which require only to be KNOWN, UP revolt the minds Id all good and enlightened men, and suffuse every Christian eye with tears. Shall I disclose the secrets of the prison-house ? Will it be credited by a Bri tish public, that such are the extreme measures of . . _ labour exacted in some of these factories, that it is found necessary to have recourse in the evening to ropes and straps, to rouse the little wearied victims, all 4 FORCE exhausted nature from sinking into sleep in the midst of its dreadful and inhuman task ? Can be heard without emotion, by any man who knows the consequence of breathing heated air, and the tem perature in which these wretched children perform their Egyptian toil, is not unfrequently from 80 to 90 degrees ; that in general no time is appropriated for breakfast, or even the afternoon's repast, but that they must snatch a mouthful of refreshment as they can during the progress of their stated work !—yea, to crown the whole, that it is actually a common practice in most of these establishments, during three or four, and in some of them even five days in the week, to employ the children during the time that should be spent at dinner in cleaning the machinery, and quickening those wheels which revolve for nearly 15 hours a day—too long, alas ! for humanity, TOO SWIFT for Mercy's claims! yet not long enough, it seems, nor sufficiently swift to keep pace with the avaricious propensities of man. Doth my Reader startle at such facts as these ? Seems it incredible to him that he should have been living for years in the neighbourhood of such enor mities, unconscious, perhaps, of their existence ? Let net this too much amaze him. There are intelligible reasons to account for the mystery, and were he near to my elbow, I should whisper them in his ear— Meanwhile let me request so much of his confidence, as to rest for the present on this SOLEMN ASSURANCE, that 1 have indisputable authority for the truth of my statements, and proofs within my reach too many, GOD know•eth ! and too affecting, to leave even the shade of a doubt as to the accuracy or the certainty of these sad realities. It may be stated generally in part of such proofs, and those the most afflicting, that' numbers of the unhappy subjects of this oppressive servitude, become in consequence, deformed in their legs, knees, and uncles, and still greater numbers rs dically injured ere they reach maturity ; and doomed to waste what should be the best of their lives, in lingering disorders which end in an untimely rave! It is with serious pain, Sir, that I have Sketched the outline (for it is only an OUTLINE) of this melancholy picture, moved thereto by no selfish or party•feeling, having no connection with trade, and without a par ticle of jealousy or towards the Gentlemen who are owners of cotton factories—some of whom merit and possess much of my respect ; the facts and reflections which I now submit to you, have no other design than the simple exposure and reps obation of a system which I judge to be barbarous, and there fore unwarrantable, which I know to be the source of unnumbered sufferings to the rising . generation, and therefore feel it a duty at such a crisis to hold ,it up to the notice of the friends of humanity in this seat of commerce, distinguished as it has hitherto been, not more for its trade than for its known philanthropy. Would it earn a fresh title to honourable fame, and raise for itself an imperishable monument of the purest praise? An opportunity is not wanting to augment its laurels. Mercy with a weeping eye in- LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 91, 1818. GOOD FlLlDAT.—}foliday at all the Public Offices. Both Houses of Parliament adjourned yesterday to Thursday the '241 of April. Hitherto the subjects of the different Garman States have been complaining that, notwithstanding the many promises made to them, of free Govern ' ments, on the bask of the Representative System, nothing has been done since the expulsion of the French to realize the hopes that had been held out to them ; but that, on the part of the Rulers, a new league, under the name of a Holy Alliance, had been formed, on which their subjects had not been con sulted—to which they had not been made consenting parties, the objects of which had never been fully explained—or so far as explained seemed to threaten the people with the expressed will of the Sovereigns as the supreme law. In the mean time, the freedom of the press in most of these States exists only in name, and in some of them is not even spoken of. We arc now assured, in an article from FrankfOrt,' that Constitutions are arranging in Germany for the purpose of introducing a Representative System into the different States. It is added, that the Diet will decree the principles which arc to be common to all the Governments with regard to individual liberty, the liberty of the press, the equality of m en i n t h e eye of the law, and the privilege of not being taxed without their own consent. Such principles must ultimately pi evail in Cer ! many ; but they have yet many enemies. The poli tical tempest having been allayed, certain men, :chow hearts were than failing theme for fear. have again taken courage, and persuaded themselves that they can awe the people into silence, and withhold t - rom them the constitutions which were promised. Mistaken men ! The people, who had physical strength to expel an invader, have moral abilities to comniand compliance with their wishes. On this topic the Met:item, received this morning, quetcs sonic obset. vations from the Annaks Pai;; 7 „, subjoin a translation: " Many persor.s r...peat, v..iti: ..! -the Journals present twi 10iy..: .. lie curiosity, and that tI: , ,T, is. :: ~.. teresting political event;. It ;. ....• have ceased to teem with 1.! 'ii .IL which changed the destiny (.1* E;•,,, do we see Kings despoiled ; Ti.r... • dams created; no longer do vo - : c; thers, three sisters, and one acloi•- I governing at one time at N.tplt:, Milan, at Turin, in Spain,in Iluil...rd, no longer do \Le behold an EI H .'. • the borders of the Tiher lo tie.. . . :. Conqueror threatening Europe wi: narchy. " 13'4 if the gigantic entf..-rplii. follies of ambition have ceased t.., .... • ... the world, still the world presc:.:.•... of attention and of interest. T carnage is past : the nations of I: •- , ing peaceably to more ~:i.i .. having wasted, during so ina:.y and their strength fur intere ;.. often foreign to them, tl-e.y are 1...' selves to recover rights of which d dality have despoiled them. A . towards a political regeneration. E lic opinion pronounces itself in tat sentative system. Every where til , .• the Liberty of the Press, which c:: all rights. Opinion marches w it:7 - even armies—it penetrate', and 0.... to in the Camps and Council , . ~: i.i " The time is come wi:ea :;•,7:. • pated by the wisdom oc K T:. been begun by the supprvssi..a c 7' Slaves; even the Courts of MAdi been obliged to renounce it. Sti:i Slaves in the North of Europe ; peror Alexander, gene: oli;ly the age, has abolished the servitude in Courland and Esthonia, and ts:7e hoped, a similar' emancipation will . " The system of representative enjoyed in England, is establi%hcl Netherlands :in many States of Cl,:. nations are now demanding it Frankfort. " The progress is slower in Li i and in the Austrian States; many minds ripe fur a have seen the shadow of it. a•.l th reality. Since Spain has had i t• : tion has lost its autos da : . 'subjected to imposts; the not exempt from obligatory States have been many times traver.. mics; these armies are withdrawn, 1 the age travelling with them, has i Vienna, at Venice, at Milan. " One of the grand characters all Sovereigns appear averse to NV revolutions; that the people expect reason without thinking of extor:.- violence—that the Heads of Sta: to rest their authority upon lav:s c:::. late the exercise of it and to prevL.: "In France the important discuss:,, laws, the establishment of represer.t.eiv the remarkable progress of the new• struction, in spite of the obstacles op] ranee, by passion, and by prejudice ; bels and of pamphlets, the acts the repression of delicts of the pres, ti of the army, the Concordat, the BuJi: of the Chambers, with a variety cf must long serve to furnish ample fo.A riu,ity. The French aie no lo.lger a luus people ; and since they have ri!. to understand them, and to judge fr, position, what they have to hope or ititure." Yesterday Viscount CA STL ERYAI•II STER had audiences of the Pa'. RI tnn House. The Duke of Your: tranbaovd with the PRINCE REGENT. Yesterday the Duke of Sr :srx and Duchess of CI:s:BERL ND. The Duke and Ducheis of CUM 9!. dinner patty yesterday. The Court Mourning for the late K;: terminated yesterday. Its duratie., The French Court has gone into . weeks on the same occasion ; the first black, and the remaining tea in v The ensuing Ball at the Manson-h.lt Monday, is to he conducted on a a:;;gr. extensive scale tlian formerly. Ilithert of tickets issued, (from ,ix to ses - ta thr, only to create th; utmost contusion, point the anxious in the enjoyment The LORD MA von, on the prescnt et: not more than t 2,004) or `_' ,3oll . It appears. fioni P.ipers laid beEre Comrticns, that 59ti Meinotials, B:1:. British protection. have made claim, J, (;overnment under the toilvenik:-. • ISIS. ncarlv (20 The enturen , l6llis they tel (•• 1:.i~ic•:. subjects of the Allies, if converad into at the price stipulatea by the Convc amount to about :O t i Freud' miliiops liquilation of rt•c?.- 1 as 11 • 1 • • voles the man of benevolence at tbic moment to , come forward and support her cause, and make a igenerons effort for her afflicted children. The time pmpitious, the extremity a great one, the evils of the case—how sad ! and how tremendous ! The cries of the sufferers from the houses of their bondage have reached the ear of the British Senate, and found an , honourable advocate in that high Assembly. Honour and success attend him ! Generations yet unborn shall sound his high encomium. The prayers of good men are with him ; his own conscience yields an applause that is better than a thousand tongues — what do I say ? PROVIDENCI itself is engaged on the side of mercy, and promises him blessings, glory, and reward ! And can Manchester behold the gene tons enterprise in apathy and in silence? Shall the friends of humanity hold their peace, and good men be thought to view with indifference the providential invocation? It must not, and it cannot be. Honour' and Consistency are against the supposition: .lerstice,' Compassion, Patriotism, and Religion, enjoin in high and peremptory terms Me opposite obligation. Aliinche.ter, Ahrch 12, 1818. ATTICUL MR. BEAUMONT AND TILE BREWERS. TO THE EDITOR OF TIM STAR. Ssa—The philippic delivered last night by Mr. esxvrav against Mr. BrALMONT, the Magistrate, for the prominent part which that Gentkman has taken in exposing the evils of arbi trary licensing, and in framing the propositions in the Anti,Mu nnpoly Petition, is made in a taste so little parliamentary, that am induced to make a few observations upon it. • • ."" • The iestertion that " Mr. ULAUSIONT is a . diaippointed Magis trate, who had come into the Commission to forward his own interest," is so indecorous and unfounded as to merit only the most perfect euntratpt. But tile imputation of improper mo tives is made—by what fact cc probability alOta %!r. s support it ?—None. And I will venture to say, that no man i.i existence can bring forward a single trait to impugn the putty of Mr. BEA1:110:42% motives or acts, or to warrant the imputa tion. The whole tenor of his conduct flatly deni., the asper sion. Ss) far from connecting himself with any of the lieensing Justices, by which means ha might effectively have "forwarded his own interest," be has uniformly, openly, and indefatigably :apposed and exposed their system, from the lirst hour in which he entered into the Commission. lay; previously it is chew° in the Police Report, that he had thrown the gauntlet i.•to the rat,* of corrupt licensers, declaring, " that when he got into the (7orrituission, if be really found any so mean as to trallir with their votes, he would unseat some of them, or make the in ashamed of themselves." But Mr. Br.aumos.r happens to have land at Stepney and Shepherd's Bush, on which there are at least 160 new houses. On each estate, some years before he was in the Comuiission, he built a public-house for the necessary accommodation of his tenants. These were natural appendages to his estate—but he would not condescend to use any sinister means to procure them to be licensed—and they were not licensed !! Ile was forbidden the use of his property. Houses which had cost him upwards of 40001 e were rendered nearly as useless to him as if they had been fired by an incendiary. The public-house at Shepherd's Bush, if I mistake not, stands empty to this day. l'hese, and similar injuries, were examined into by the Police Conimittec, and their character is strongly marked and reprobated in the Report of that Com:Muer. But according to Mr. CAI-vs - at'. logic, because Mr. BEAUMONT has suffered injuries from the licensing system, he ought not to complain of it. Ile has been oppressed, and therefore, his counsels for the safety of others that conic after him, ought not to be minded. lie feels as an Englishman ought to feel—for himself and countrymen, and therefore he ought not to be believed—but to be abused. My understanding leads me to a very different conclusion. I Can not conceive any person better qualified to exemplify the errors of the licensing system, than a Gentleman who has suffered under its operation, and who (as an independent County Ma gistrate) has since been t !tabled to penetrate into its recesses.— As a fellow member with Mr. BEAUMONT upon the Anti-Mono poly Committee, and in other situations, I have witnessed the candour and public-spirited acts of his conduct, and can vouch fur his being too independent in mind and fortune to deserve the aspersion which Mr. CASA EAT has cast upon his motives as a Magistrate. Mr. Csnvexis " shrewd oinion," that Mr. BEAUMONT " wished to become a popular /andidate and be returned on the 'Moulders of the people for the part he had taken," I believe to be as well founded as the rest. I rejoice, that by the appointment of a Committee, a public opportunity will be offered for Mr. CUTLET to make good his assertions, and for Mr. IlEaemus:r to prove, that his conduct and character are sans pear et sails rep Oge.-1 am, Sir, &c. a. H. J. 78, Iligh-Holboni, March 14, 1818. THE EVENING STAR. 11 • e p nr if Pi . • their colon] • nce. 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Ti.e lengei sum; clam pears to h. yr -r - , It is certai i-i the way rose.: 1 • tens unde \L - cliingto yozi.i-ions Sat t, :1:e ghe llake rt,ti-. stay at Pa .fr not yl r Conlb from \lei the meet 1.... • =chit] of n All mousth i s e :a d aut , to t p ri the Empi to France I rNI 1: • army to Apple :.. thousand late gale i!ei D • du Nord We ar : nounced cf although there ts ~• restor The I much de • lure. 0:- E.: 4 : , " petty. out nazi rto. :.r. t7ectabll .. . ►teen tel L i ter dist Tuft( dation st amidst e earnsta l c • present. -with t h, :• ?hip d e l he .: duri ng most en i 2: rad e . er din ner , S r. j s tar aura e r..d ;in