Star. — London, England, 1801-03-24 00:00:00

-4 I I fi r ength of rebellion had appeared to be b?oken.' To this evidence, which his. Lordfhp maintained, was of itfelf a ftrong prciiimption of the neceflity of the mcafure, there was added the teflimony of thole Honourable and Noble Pea ti.ns in both I lonks of Parliament, and this was fo clear an d d & in ve , that no realonable doubt Was left of its mice:Fay. Lord CAERNAR von reta - obActl the Bill as a libel on the Britilh Conliitutif.n, and a copy orprifialle of the a6ts of the svortt Jacobin Government of France. There was 10) other proof of the necef fife for fuch an extraordinary meafure but mere .ittertion. It had been tried for two years, and having faittil of attaining its objeC, was a lid fiient arpMent to prof,: that it would he wifer to !etint to another fy dem. The urincipal argu ment relied on in. fupport of the meafto c was, that the progrefs of municipal law was too flow for the litinithment of trealon ; yet that municif al law was too quick in kluging culprits to trial, was the ar gument urged by the fame party in ftfpp, rt in2; the Bill for the fufpention of t.:4e Half-fad Corpus Ae. The bill on the table, he contended, would give to the Lord Lkutenunt, or any pertlin to whom he might pleafe to delegate it, a power to imprilim or alratrinate any man in the commu nay, while it precluded the friends of the perfe clued or executed men from appealing to a Court Juftice, or to any Tribunal whatever for redtvl. Tice public would have no confidence in Parlia ment if this Bill was paired without fome previous invelligation as to its neceftity.- It would ill ac cord with that attention to popular freedom, that jcaloafy of power which they thould always full upon, find which the people had a right to exiled from them. He felt to much horror in contem plating the fufferings of Ireland, that he declared he Ihould rather Ice a French ;fly:Limn in England than have it the theatre of Inch difgraceful tccnes as had occurred in Ireland during the lad two years; for if the Conflitution was gone, what re mained to ftruggle for ? Lord CARLLTON explained. Lord CLARE denied that he had jttrihuted a bloody difpotition to the Ira people. He had alluded merely to a fervant of his own, who, when leading to execution for Realing arms from his' bottle, declared to the priell who accompanied him, on being asked how he meant to make nth of ' thole Arms, that it was his intention to thuot his Lordship on his domain, and that wretch having thbfided for 3o rears or. his father's bounty and Lis own, nothing, he conceived, but a love of blood, could aduate The Archbithop of Cast+ EL, in a fpeech clofely logical, and of nervous and claffical eloquence, fitted, that when, in 1796, the frills Parliament armed the Crown with the authority of martial they did fo upon the fcrious inquiries of the Secret Committee ; that when they continued it in 1799, they did not fo without a new and full invelbgation of fads ; that they exercifed the ut moft caution when, in I Soo, they again continuedl it to the 25th of Match, aot ; that, as an incon teftible proof of its being 11111 necessary, he could Rate the trials under it to have been, in the fall' two (or one) years, not fewer than 200; thofe with in the laft two months, even to the number of 6o; the condemnations out of thole 60, not fewer thaw 34; that, not a noble Lord then hearing him, could affirm, on his honour, that civil juflice would have its due courfe, if the Courts were not under the prote&ion of martial law; that the only thing he could regret ,in regard to the Bill, was its not extending the power of martial law till the time for the probable commencement of the next Sef lion of Parliament; that he would therefore give his vote decifively for it, as good and falutary fo far as it went. Lord Kin° rote only to make a tingle obferva tion, namely, that the ground of necefEty urged for paffing the Bill, a Bill which (truck at the root of the Conftitution, and of the liberties of the rub jeft, Rrongly reminded him of that fort of argu ment which Roberfpierre's innumerable trials be fore his novel tribunals might have been defended by. The advocates for the Bill contended upon the great numbers that had been tried by courts• martial, convieted and executed, as a proof for the neceffity for reviving it ; in like manner might Roberfpierre have Paid, 44 you cannot pretend that my fyllem of conduit in the adminiltration of juf tice has been ineffedual. I have put hundreds upon trial before my unprecedented tribunals, and I convieted and gullotined them all." His 1..0rd- Alp raid, he conceived, that the number tried and convißed before Courts-martial in Ireland, and executed there, was an argument again) rather than for the Bill; conlidenng at the fame time that the inefficacy of the former Bills (obnoxious and repugnant to every' notion of Britifh Freedom as they were) had been acknowledged by all the Noble Lords from Ireland to be proved, he there fore malt objeet to the prefent Bill's palling. The Earl of WISTKORLiND defended the Bill, as fuited to the dangerous eircumßanees of Ire land. He Rated the various progreffive Alts which had paired in different reigns, for the punilh tnent of Rebellion, and denied that, by Parlia ment's adapting fuch Alts to the circumftances which occurrecfat the time, any jun inference was to be drawn, of a defign to infringe on the liber ties of the fubjeet. In return for obedience, and thc facrifice of perfonal rights, Government owed [notation and argued, that without fuel; a mca fore as the prefent, the protation of the lives and Properties of the well-affeeted fubjeets of Ireland, c. , a1.1 not be enfured. _ _ Lord DAR voLtv fupported the Bill and declared ) .Onf,lf pCrfeetly fatisfied of the need:ay es:Ming fcr it from the Noble Lords more particularly eont.eat.d with Ireland, but he condemned the frith Government for producing that neccffity by their mifeondua. Lord Ramona expreed his intention to rote for th e Bill at prefznt, but would not again, without very fall enquiry. The LOAD CHAVCILLOR fliggefted that this was the time to propofe an amendment, if any Noble lard intended it. Tim Marquis of DowatilltE raid he Mould wills the Bill to be continued to the next Seffions, but sy.is unwilling to propofe any amendment, left it lapuld delay sts progrzfa. He was but dna weeks from Tretard. and he er.nfi tefl:mony io that of tl - ,e Nob!;; Lea.'.: on the other fide, as to the neceflity ‘rhich called. The quillion being ralli.l for, a dirifion took place—Contents So—Proxies to—Non•Contents 7—Majority 83.—The Bill was accordingly read a third time, and paired. • The Irifh Habeas Corpus Sufpenflon ACI was alto read a third time, and palfed.—.Adjourned. HOUSE. OF COMMONS. The R'ght Honourable [haus- ADDI Nto rot. , tank the Oaths and his tat. Petitiln was ptt from the Truflees of the 13r:(.1 Niufvom, pr.itnit for Parlianu.ntary t, lie the *l'ahlt:, and an account of the tuna granted to the Nlukunt to be Irid I, fore the Houle. Sir our• MI LIMA r bmutht up a Bill to enable the Clergy to let Ledo of their lythcs fur a limited time, which wit; read a firft time, and ordered to he r.ad a frond time on the 14th of April : and in the ti , c to 1w prnittd. A MClTige front the Lords informA the Houle their Lord• fhips had agreed to the Irith Duties Bill, and the frith Malt and Diitillery Bill, without any an:old:wit. Sir WILLIAM PLILTENZY gave notice be fhould rove for leave to-morrow, to bring in a Bill to leffen the. 'ran re of Foots' Rate, by encouraging the cultivation of Potatoes ea cer tain common Linos. Mr. BRAnnt. Isrougtzt up the r.dt-InC.ia Goods Bill, which was r:ad a fait titor. :411d ordcr , :d to 1,.7 - rad a lecond time to morrow; and alto a repnr- fal" thr Yapiting Laws Bill , which was ordered to h•: t c-committcd to-morrow. hiI.MA Nr; moved for au ateouni of thy quantity of Bri tifh Plantation Srgar mid Ruin imported, with the amount of the Dutic, ther,:ii, from the jth of Ja.mary iBO. , to the sth of JanuAty The Apprentices In.:,iituns Bill wi fccond time,and committed for to-more.w. BASK OF IFNCLA,ID. Mr. NICHOLLS moved that there fhould be laid before the Houle a copy of any retinue:on of the Bank Dire:lon of England, to increafe the Divi dends upon Bank Stock, or give any bonus to thi Proprietors. lie thould, he faid, content himla with limply moving it, conceiving no oppolitinti would be made to his motion. Mr. THORN rox (Governor of the Bank) defiret l to know with what view and to what end this pa per was moved for i Mr. Mc:MOLLS replied, that lie intended to mov, the Houle on a future d. , y to prevent inch divi !ion, and to retrain the Bank Ii on any increale of dividend until they made payments is catli. Mr. THORNTON fait% that die Lank wa ready upon all proper occarions, to give any i:forro.: tion that could prudently be commiviieated to th, Houfe, but this war not a quellion of iofornritior, but an attempt on the pal t of an ber to interfere in the niaaag, mein of:llc+r aifairs, in a manner which he trotted he fhould prove to the Houfe to be totally unwarrantable.—!n the ' iirit charter granted by Wiiliant and Mary, %%0;141: was afterwards ennui mid by the 7th of Anne, the Bank were empowered to make fuch dividends a s they fhould think proper, provided the capital re mained entire.—Thefe powers had been renewed by feveral fubfequent Afts, and Wily, by an Aft of the fait year, when a renewal of their charter had been granted for a valuable conlideration.— Would the Houfe now be guilty of a breach of the contra& on their part, to fay that the Proprietors fhould not enjoy the fair profits of their trash: ? The Hon. Gentleman might fay there were en creafed by the fufpenfion of payments in cafh.— To this point the Houfe had ihewn a jealous at. tcntion, by calling from time to time fur the amount of their notes. Two returns of there had b.!en made during the prefent winter, and he would venture to fay, the encreafe was not more than the circulation of the country, and the payments of its dividends to the public creditors required. Mr. Nictioets Paid he did not think when he confented on Friday to withdraw his motion, and give notice of it for this day, that it would then be denied. As, however, the Hon. Gentleman had entered romewhat into the dircullion of the queftion, to which this motion was only a prelimi nary, he was prepared to difcufs the fubjetk. He denied that the Bank of England was now in the fame Rate as in February, t 797, fincc it had not only become infolvent, but had broken its faith with the public creditor, and fubfequent to that period had been guilty of delinquency in iffiting notes to the amount of fixteen millions and a half, when before they had only ifued to the amount f eight millions. The Bank were bound to purchafe bul lion and carry it to the Mint, but it was well known they had carried none daring the IA year. They ' had eltablifhed a circulating medium of paper in- Read of gold, by means of which the price of pro. vilions had very materially rifcn, and a large quan tity of gold had been fent out of the country, whilft Parliament had been tinder the neeeffiry of proteding them from the demands of she public creditor. He trolled, therefore, the Haute would, as it was bound to do, interfere to restrain the Direftors from increafing the Dividends upon the Bank Stock, until the public creditor was paid, as he ought to be, in fpecie. Mr. Born and Mr. H. THORNTON both (poke againfk the procluaion of the paper, and laid it would be an unwarrantable interference in the pri vate affairs of the company. Mr. Tnoarrow Rated in explanation, that there appeared an increafe in the halt return made to the Houle of Bank-notes, but that fuch increafe was ' only temporary, and they were now returned to their accullomed level. He save his thanks to the Member who had flopped this motion on Friday, and fold he hoped fuch motions would not be per mitted to pars as a matter of courre, for that great injury might be done to public credit by hely and inconfiderate motions being made in that Houfe for the produdion of papers which 'could not be granted with fafcty, and which through the Bank might materially affed the interells of the State. Mr. Boyd, Mr. H. Thornton, and Mr. Thornton (Governor of the Bank) explaircd. Mr. Tama could not conceive what injury could arife from the produSion of a refolution which had been already publilhed in the front of molt of the newfpapers. After a (bort converfation between Mr. Tier ney, Mr. S. Thornton, and Mr. Nicholls, the mo tion was pot and negatived without a divition. The ATTORNEY GINERAL moved for leave to briug in a Bill for the more diet:Wally preventing the forgery of Bank-notes and Bank Poll Bills.— Lcavc given. COLLECTION OP POOR RATE;. Tho ATTORNEY GENERAL, in purfuance of the notice he had given on Saturday, moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better collation of Poor Rates. He conlidered filch a Bill to be aridly necelfary, as at prefent, econfequence of a very trifling error, the whole rate affelfed in any par ticular place, was liable on appeal to be quafhed and it might happen that in confequence of Inc ar?eals, the Overfeers would be wholly difabled rrom providing for the Poor. It was an evil which had been laid to have been long com plained of, and for which there appeared :in other tern:-.iy than a Bill fungar to that moved for. The SOL!CITOP. GENERAL feconcled the motion. _ _ Sir Wm. LOWTHER complained of the Petition preti-ated by the Attorney General on Saturday, being prefented on an unufual day, the objaa of which fcemcd to be to call a iligma on thecharac-' ter of a Noble Lord (the Earl of Lonfdale), who had no notice whatever of any intention to prefent fuch a Petition. The SOLICITOR GENERAL thought it a tit)arille wholly new to the Houfe that an individual Ihould not be at liberty to prefent a Petition without giv ing notice to a Noble Lord, or any other perfon whole name might happen to be involved in it; cx elufive of %%hich, the Petition alluded to Lad Ilatcd nothing injurious to that Noble Lord, but merely a fimple fa& in which he happened to (hare. Mr. JoLtifrt fail a few words. Mr. :.:AT t IRTHWAIT F. was proceedirig to give a detail of A trrnfaFtiun in Cumberland relative to the ttbatements of the Petition prefented by the Attorney General, when he was called to ordyr by Mr. A cpor, who thought that as the Bill moved tM. was on a gcner.il principle, a detail of any partietthir tranfaCtion was ittegular. The Sera La thought that as thy was-avow edly moved lOr, in conkquenee of a panicular ilatemcnt, lome detail relative to that might be Mr. SHAW LEFECRe fnpportcd the motion. 11AINWARING expretred hirt/felf jealous 01 :my infringement upon the Statute of Plizabf.th, which the Bill moved for went to alter, but would not (ppd.: it being brought in. After a I,:w words from Colonel Buxton, and a rzply from The ATTORVEV GENERAL, Who vindicated him ;.lf from any intention of prefenting the Petition ..11udcdto by furprize,and contended for the neccf ,:ty of the meafarc he had moved for—Leave was to bring in the Bill.—Adjourned. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 24. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D kY AT ONE O'C'LOCK : Cordult s7f—tor accrunt, 57 t.-5 per Con. 9z; 23 °imam 41 prcm. PRTCF. OF SIC,CKS YISTFRIIAr : Bank Rtoelt fLut 3 per Cellt.kcd. fhut 3 per C. CO.& 57:i 4 per Cent. Shut I per C. Navy 9:1 93 92} Ditto Loyalty glut Lon Ann. Phut per Crnt. s#c Imp. Ann. tt 3-16 India Stock Orntann 31 4 Conf. for April ri 1 The laft dirpatches from Sir RALPH ABER NtOM III are fail to bring an account of his having re ceived advices from the Red Sea, (hang, that the Bombay army would be ready to co-operate with the force.; under his command by the sth of February. It is raid to be the Intention of Sir RALPH AIERCROMBIL to diftnlbark his army at Aboukir. Advices are faid to hate been received at the Admiralty, that the Mt acuity has taken a cor vette in the Mediterranean, out one day from Tou lon, and bound to Egypt with arms, ammunition, ' and flores.—The fame velfel fell in likewife with ' a fleet of twenty merchantmen, from Saintes bound to Toulon, and freighted with wines, bran dy, &c. for the ofe of Gat( rn r aunt is fquadron : of thefe (he captured fifteen, and fent them to Malta. The above (hips were convoyed by feveral gun boats, which 11;cered off as loon as the frigate made her appearance.. Report Rates that Baron d'Ensta swans, the Swedi(h Minifter in London, prefcnted a note on the 4th in ft ant to our Government, demanding the rcleafe of the Sevcdifh and Danifh veirels ; but not being able to fucceed, applied to the Secretary of State for a pafrport to leave the conntry. It is added that the ?airport has been granted, and that he will loon quit London, and proceed to the Con tinent by way of Dover. ' A mereantil_ both at Leith has received a let ter from a corrcfpondent at Hamburgh, dated March to, which contains the following important intelligence :—" Ydierday, an exprefs puffed through this place, going from Copenhagen to Berlin, and it is generally faid that he carries with him the agreement between the two Court s to maintain the free navigation of our river. What corroborates this report is, that the order given by the Daniih Government to ramble all the militia in this part of Holilein has been re called, and this alto makes us think that the dif ferences between Great Britain and Denmark will fpecdily be fettled." A letter from an officer at Fort George, dated March 16, fat's—" This garrifon was alarmed !aft Friday evening the 13th, between twelve and ore o'clock, by the cry '.t fire. One of the wooden chimney tops in the State Prifen fomchow caught fire, and in a moment WAS in a great blaze ; whlcb, from the idea of the accident at Invernefs appen. ing the day before, created general alarm. The fire engines being inftantly procured, and the re giment in garroon immediately turning out, it was loon happily 21,11.74. DECPMBER 20. General Sir RALPH ARLRCROMISIE'S Army has jolt completed its re-embarkation for Egypt, hav ing been on there here for a month pall; a convoy with all kinds of fibres, both for the navy aid army engaged on this expedition, is hourly ex paled from England to follow them, Govern ment being determined to fupport it by every means poffible. Abdut five rail of the line, with feveral frigates, under Lord Kirru, will be the cream—The LOUISA man of war brig, Lieutenant TRUSCOTT, has lately arrived from England will] difpatches. The French are fitting out an expedi tion at Toulon, and Sicily is rumoured to be the objet.—The 4oth infantry, having two battalions, with a company and a half from the Royal regi ment of Artillery, and tome officers from the corps of Engineers, have jolt been added to the garri fon of this liland.—The fibres, &c. found in Va letta, have been valued at 2 to,')ool. the whole of which will be given up, it is tilt tight, as prize-. Imoney, in confequenee of the hardihips the troops underwent during the blockade. NAVTICZA. INTL7.LIGENCE. FALMOU FH, MARCH 20. A heavy gale from the S. W. (Lill detains the LADY I iondar Packet, with the mails for Halifax alit! New Yotic, and the GOWER PACKET, with the mail-. of the vitii intl. for Lifhon : the former read.; the tignal for failing ycflerday, hut the wind fllifting from the N. W. to W. prevented her. The Aucx LAND, for the ad Well India Mail of the month, is alfo ready for fea when the 4 . teeives the PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22. Came in the Swedith 110 Neptunus, of Stock- • holm, Capt. KF.L LEP vritost, front Tenerife, laden with wine, for the life of the Navy, and to be landed at this port : the is not detained, her car go being imported by licence from the Privy Council. Capt. DP% x s, with many others, late of the DUKE of CLARENCE Packet, of Falmouth, (captured fome time ago, and carried into Tene rife), and feveral Gentlemen «•ho were pairengers on board the (hip New Lionel's, bound to the Weft Indies, which was alfo captured and carried into Tenerife, by la Mouche privateer, are on board the Neptunus, in which they came paffengers they failed from Tenerife three weeks ago, and on the day they left the Auld, that is Saturday, the sth init. a very heavy cannonading was heard • m lat. 34.5 i .10ng. 1 5. 14 W. which hilted fix hours from 7 A. M. to neon, hut they do not know from what caufe it prceteded. The Doer of Cr.. XENce was taken by a Spanith privatecrof 14 guns, after a chacc of three days and nightc, then on her homeward bound voyage from theWett Indies: —The St. Uriato of 400 tons hurthen, and la Madre de Deos, of 9.7.0 tons, both Portegnefe, with very valuable cargoes, bound to the Brazils, have he en taken by French Prii-ateers, and carried Lao Tenerife. Letters from Lifbon nate, that the French Go vernment have offered to take one half of the so millions of money, which they demand, in dia monds; that the Moiirao us was in dock repair ing, having made five feet water in her hold, dur ir,g the Rolm : and that about a third of the (q.t. ward bound Mediterranean fleet were fill miffing. The Monssrt, RESOURCE, and DIDO frigates, armed cu./lute, which failed from this port in November la% with detatchments belonging to the different regim.lits fervice in the Mediterra nean, have arrived at their refpative tkaivationa. PORTSMO UT} I, MA R CH 23. Put hack the LAPWING, of 28 guns, Captain ROTHERA hi, with the Oporto anti Ltibun couvuy::, from Portland Race. Arrived the NEPrtY E, of 98 guns, C:mraiit VASHON, from tile Channel &et, And the DoL- P H IN cutter from a cruife. SHFERNESS, MARCH 23. Sailed this day his Majefly's (hips LATOYA. of 36 guns, Capt. Sono:►OA, and the kJ of 3: guns, Capt. itsesac ; alio the fire Ships, the tour, Lieut. TILLIARD, and the NANCY, Lieut. °war, for YARMOUTH ; and the PRorlrelcce and Qyassiottounn, hired cutters, on a critize. FROM 1.1.(n - D's LbT. The General Moore tranfpert is on (lore at Dartmouth, and %%ill be obliged to nu 10.1,1. The Charles, blurt, HY, from Cork to Lifbon, is taken and cm] ird into Maros. DF.AL, MARCH 23.—Sai1ed the A%-iCR FOB, on a cruife.—Wind W. GRAF fSESD, MARCH 23.—P4'rcd by the Sove. reign,Mirrcsri.r.,fromSurinam ; from Cork ; and Vi&orv, Daunt. As, lion ; H i : bon.—Sailcd the LORD THURLOW, DALF, far In dia; Jafun, WATT, and Portland, ALL r', f r Jitmaica ; Hunter, Kit:., for Nev. frin,;l3 , ):l ; Felicity, SrintE HOU SE, for Oport,, ; Vrmy —,and Werwagting,DE JON 31.,f0r 1 - lion!Jur 4 :h. - ARRIVED At Londonderry.Artan7ie, C rran, from At Ch.alatun—Cireyhotnid, Prot, from ; .•;t Archani.-1, frau Lor..ion. At Br.:tnun—Landnike, from S;.l7,am.ts'a. At Oporto--Eanticra. Pa k, fr •nt I.rno. At Laixon—Hop.., Nt.arin. fr.,m I ru Brnthrrs. ; Princcfr of Prazil,Carnmeil; and Rain:Al, . I .ak< , fr o m Nrnwh, Lave; Harrnr , r , e. ; 1. • , ; Trciawny, Durk. fnin At at C 3 Geo..] Hope—l Walt 01, from I.ottdotr. At Hamburr:.—Ttitoc, NlArt.tr• ; 1 ndr.q..hr,..--- ; bane? 1101:e. ; I Itiira, 1 L.V..0.; Luuila t jafgo, !fla t t-nal A t I pe,r2ool--H-rriott, alattt, ir,ao Virstitin =4 Cr Nctv York. A t lid.alt--Hibernia,Congbey; and A.:venture, London. Afria--Sixedwell, N:ead, Iron I.4udva gist 0t