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- - --- _ r ~~ 7 _____ cost/lintel more *twilit* ' _ PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. ! find in Scotch or in English bciolti . e e teee e ee 1 I ;Ile purpose: He cotild have - HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER 17. . - - Went provision should have • -ei,:,the reduction of these few KER V. THE DUKIi OF ROXBURRH." . hope that out of the excess such The LORD CHANCELLOR, in continuance, made. But afterwards he found proceeded to call their Lordships' attention to the principle upon which the excess observations which be had made upon the merits of He looked at it as one entire„tra --- this case on a former day. He had at that time ipect to some of these/nu all the Judges of&toe rt stated, to the best of his recollection, all the facts of Session were of opinion, they could . not be sus. : which his recollection could supply up to the death , tamed, for instance, the felt of the mansions. The ere. of the late Dukeof Roxburgh. When this anbjeOleeption of Fleurus was no better than leaving a soli.: after beihg first under the etineidtration of the Court's tary house, a stone quarry, within which the ,Noble of Session, came afterwards before that Route, it I F am i ly of Roxburgh were to be perm i tte d to 'dwell, was thought necessary to remit it tothe consideration with leave to have ingress and egress through the of the Court of Session , with respect to many points , landi of the vassal. He himself saw no ground upon and objections, and in consequence the present inteoqippoieh thevihole of these few wank' be sustained.— locutor had been pronounced, fading ifileneral the This must be all good or all bad. If selection.was to whole of these fee: to be bad. He should this dal{ be made, could he say the fist is good and the second Donee bring under their consideration the case of thei 4iad, or eleven were bad ? He lamented the result, Dtrke of Queensberry, in which he intended presently • but his own mind could make no distinction to war to move that judgment be affirmed. This casein : rant the House in making the reduction. To- morn aw many of its points, and in a great part of its doctri n e, ' b e should move the judgment accordingly. was similar to that of the Roxburgh. He could nor, 'Upon the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, at least touch upon those points which were necessary ilia the case, the Duke of Queensberry v. Earl of for their consideration in the ha:* of the Duke of i Wemyss, judgment was affirnied. - Queensberry, without, at the seine time, treading I Upon the motion also of the LORD CHAN. upon all those which. were necessary to consider in CELLOR, in the case, Hawkins v. the King, judge the feu: of the Duke of Roxburgh. His Lordship ment was affirmed. ... here referred, as he had done on a former day, to IocCLESIASTICAL BILL. .. . . the deed of tailzie with respect to the restriction of I The LORD CHANCELLOR. said, be could Set disponing or alienating any part of this property.—. refer to this Bill on their Lordship's table, without ex- The fact was, the Duke of Queensberry did, in 1801, , iiressing approbation of the conduct of the Archbishop make a lease for 97 years , increasing the fine, but di . of Canterbury. This Bill was to add a valuable living minishing the rent. The question was, whether sucl to the slender income of the Bishop of Bristol, thoug h a lease could be good in- Scotland against a deed i t was vacant, and, he need not add, in his Grace , s particularly made to guard the property for all the ' representation. - heirs in tail who might afterwards succeed? Some I doubt, in that Duke's life-time, had arisen, and f or the purpose of quiking the same, be instituted pro ceedings for the purpose of having this subject decid ed by the Court of Session. With respect to this and other cases, his Lordship thought it necessary not to ehter -further into more points of litigation than were necessary. He would confine himself to this, it was a lease for 97 years. It was true, that in this coun try various modes had been adopted by our Courts to bar the entail, and yet they were fieunded upon fiction ; he at the same time apprehended it was questionable if this mode of cutting off . the entail had commenced now, instead of centuries ago, it would not have been permitted by the Legislature.— Ii was true that fetters were not to be raised by im plicatien, but that was not the fact in this case of the Duke of Queensberry. If permission existed in a deed of this nature to lease for life, it was not by implication that other leases could be made e besides, where tricks were prohibited, leases of long endur ance could not be permitted: Though fetters shall , fret be - provided without the generic term, still a per. , Ip'ssiou on-the same deed, with a prohibitory clause, shall be construedio extend no further than its terms will, consistently with that clause. - In adverting to the arguments of these who contended a lease was no transfer.of property, therefore no alienation, and then supported the validity of the lease in questiOrk his Lordship obseived, that upon the doctrine they maintained, what would be the consequences as to the law and property of Scptland ? A man would then have it in his power to 'defeat the claims of heirs in tailzie, by immediately not alienating his lands,.but by granting a lease for 10,000 years, with a condition of renewal, -if a lease on that term of years couldbe supposed ever to need renewal. It was extraordinary, in his mind, if such could ' ever be the law, and ilk was the law of Scotland he thought it still more extraordinary that thole who had pro. petty restricted by this sort - o' deed, had not fre;• quently availed themselves of this power of leasing. English leases were originally, be believed, similar to leases in Scotland. They could not be of long i COPPER COINAGE. . duration ; Craig had' laid down in his time, they The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not-be for moo,. than nine years, and in Coke said, he trusted it would not be deeined irregular on it was stated, that they might be granted at the his part, to take notice of a subject which, he had longest I'M' 40 years. In our own times, if no legal heard, had been productive of great public. incom ome fetter prevented, a lea s e ight be for. a thousand I niefice, oarticularly amongst the lower classes ? In a years. Such a lease in,oyr raw was considered an pate conversation with an Hon. Gentleman opposite, alienation, and yet the estate so granted was Const- he had stated, as clearly as possible, what -were the dered less than an estate for life. That under intention's of Government respecting a new issue of such deeds a man was. prevented from making. Copper Money ; but a certain misunderstanding had leases of unreasonable endurance, was as obvious tcl gone abroad, which threw discredit on all copper his mind, as if words defining the length had been . coins, except those stamped for Government by Mr. inserted in the deed itself. .. With regard to the I Boulton. This was the misconception, which had n o case of Orme and Leslie, he did not exact l y coin- foundation on what he had said; and its consequence, Bide with a Noble and Learned Lord (Redesdale) 'as he was informed, had been,-that many persoiu refuse as to the principle ; upon which it was decided.—' to tale the old Tower halfpence. He should therefore However, upon the general power of making leases, ! repeat, and he wished the circumstance to be made generally under these circumstances of long endurance they I hnow„, that the well-known old halfpence, coined at agreed, and he should support the motion of the No- i the Tower at various periods of the last and present Lie and Learned Lord made the day before yester . - I Reigns, are as much the l ega l coin of the r ea l m as day, that the judgment be a ffi rmed. The Roxbur g h i the new copper pieces by B o elton ; and bein . g , a legal case new under,consideration evinc e d to t h em i n the tender, he hoped all misapprehension respecting them deed of 1648, what anxiety , the possessor of estates would cease for the future. 'He would repeat what of this noble family had taken to preserve to those he had said before, that it is the intention-of Govern lice had selected at a line of heirs the integrity of ' ment lo receive these halfpence at theil. current va these estates. His anxiety, however, must go for i lue (Hear, hear), as soon as the means devised for nothing, if he had not inserted words sufficiently corn- `redeeming them could be carried into execution.— petent to effect his intention. Under this charter, it This, however, would be a work 9f time ; but as the was true,frus might be granted, and had been granted subject was once more placed in its proper light, he without destroying _the prohibitory clause. He in. hoped there would be no farther 'objections on the stanced eighty few granted in 1644 to cotters ren- part ortie Public. . 1 . Bering rent—they were not large, and upon change, Mr. GRENFELL complimented the Chancellor tote feu duty was to be doubled, situt um est. He of the ExelfeQuer on the -candid and satisfactory Leg adverted to the feu which was made by Wil manner in which he had explained the intention of Earn, in 1663, and was contended to have had .an Gnvernmente For himself, he understood the expla honorous consideratiorr. In his mind, there was a nation ors.a former esening, in the very clear light in difficulty in reconciling this feu to the terms of th e which it has again been placed by his Right Hon. cl.arter. But because William had m a d e suc h af ar , at their fell value. He therefo re and it had been acceded to by the f am ily, y et i t was t , be Friend, eit:telarnely l that the old Tower halfpence wer e impossible to defend all others which m i g h t b e made " raised by in opposition to the charter upon the pri nc ipl e o f t hi s hoped, that ho farther clamour would, be i interested .per s, as he trusted that nothing would one. The question now for their c ons id erat i on was , 'whether,thelau of 1804 could or could not stan d ac prevent his Hon. Friend from per s evering 'in t h e measureproposed. cording to the charter of 1648 t In regard to th e - , •. . • J R6YAL ASSENT. The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to the East In dia Duties Bill, the Circuitous Trade Bi 1 , the East-India Ship. ping Bill, the Police Bill, the London Militia Enlistment 11 , 11, the Irish Illicit Distillation Bill, the Irish Peace Bill, the Dorset square Improvement Bill, the Bryanstone-square Improvement Bill, the Montague-square Improvement Bill, the Sun Fire-Office Bill, the" Sun I,ife Insurance Bill, the West of England Insurance Bill, and a private Bill. • The Commissioners were, the Loan CIIANC6LLOR, Viscount MILVILLE, and Lord WALsINGUAM. • The Five Millions Exchequer Bills' Bill, the French Wines Bill, the County Fire Office 8.11, and the Imperial insurance Bill, were read the third time and passed. Mr. Cou RT [NAT, and other Members from the I louse of Com mons, brought up a Message, stating, that the Commons had agreed to the amendments made by their Lonlships in the Frazzle Work Knitters Bill, and the Spirits Interchange bill. Adjourneil till to-morrow (this day.) • HOUSE OF COMMONS. At a quarter before four, the Deputy Use" of the Black Rod sununoned the House to the House of Lonl4, to hear the Royal Assent given, by Conunission, to certain Bills.—(For which see the Lords.) -. Mr. ARBUTHNOT preiented the Report of the Commis sioners appointed to superintend the issue of Exchequer Bill► from the 'I reasury. A Message from the Lords acquainted the House, that their . Lordships had agreed to the East India Circuitous Trade Bill, without any amendment; and to the Fraine-work Bill, with 1 some amendments; to which they desired the concurrence of the House. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE ODER, the Lords' Amendments were agreed to, and a Message ordered to acquaint their Lordships witl►ahe name. Another Message from the Lords acquainted the House, that their Lordships had agreed to the Exchequer Bills Bill, and to the Imperial Innuratice Bill, wishout any amendment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEVER (in the absence of his Noble Friend, Lord Castle reagh) acquainted the House, that The should move, " That the House, on its rising, - do adjourn to Mon. day next ;"—it was also the intention of the Noble Lord to move, on that day, for an adjournment of the House during the recess until the first day of March next. Jgl Co 11 . nova acquirii , which arose out of (Ai far debt, they were ' SUPPLY. rnack previously, Qui did no come within the bow* The House sent into a Committee of Supply, when of the prelent question, After a variety of miler Mr. 4RBUTHNOT moved a variety of Miscella servations his Lordship said, he would move fo-mutr, • tmous Estimates for 1814. They were chiefly the row that judgment be affirmed. The reiolutiodlie i'usual small,annuities for the 'Superannuated Servants shbuld propoie would beionuded on genetalgma t its! of Government. Amongst the sums was £2919, for —the preciie terms of *filch he should in the uzs.ete.geairing Henry the Seven t h' s Ch a pel, f or 'lB-14.. time consider, and upon which ,he slicusid • mon Motions were . agreed to, and , the ft,eport % was the interlocutor should be con fi rmed ; anxiety Ordered to be received on Monday, •I' ..„ had been great on this subject, arid he wottld yen. The Bill in aid pf the Land Tax was read a Aist iitte to say: it was irof esSibl; tQ hay, mid ietotsd Offic t 4:4ClioUlaed till Monday. • 11177 ).Cll PAPERS. VOITSLUYS, iSzczmsta 16. here -that Antwerp is invested' by are daily passing through this place _ - ROTTERDAM, DECEMBER 14. We have received intelligence that the French Ge neral, Baron Lorcet, late Commandotpt .of the De wittt of the Mouth : of the Maese, at Gertrinden bass is made prisoner by,the Couacks. 0171c14L INTELLIGENCR. " Rotterdam, December IS. ge The Burgomaster of this city hastens to inform the good Burghers of the following intelligence, com municated to him by the Imperial Russian General Von Benkendorff 41 That the important fortress of Breda is taken by his Imperial Russian Majesty's troops; and that the French garrison, 1800 men strong, in attempting to retreat to Antwerp, were attacked by the aforesaid troops with such good effect, that 600 of the French were made prisoners. " Given at Rotterdam, Dec. 11, 1819. (Signed) 41 I. F. VAN HOGENDOPFP." DORDRECHT, DECEMBER 10. Deserters are continually arriving here from this fleet at Antwerp. Two days ago, seventy men, headed by a Naval Lieutenant, came over to us in a body. , DEc. 11.—On the quitting of Willemstad by the French, and of the flotilla posted there, every one who was not a native Frenchman, as well of the gar rison as of the ships' crews, deserted. The French themselves fled in the greatest disorder, by the way of Steenbergen to Antwerp. It is with no less pleasure that we have to state that the whole of the crew of the ship Chatham, lying at Antwerp, in so far as they consisted of Dutch sea men, quitted the ship en masse at Antwerp, and are on their road hither, and the quarter-masters are al ready arrived here. According to the quarter mas ters' report, this crew consists of about, two hundred men, and on their departure the greatest disorder reigned at Antwerp ; so that this large and impor tant city will certainly be gained to the good cause, on the first appearance of the Allied Troops before its walls. DEC. 18.—The passage of allied troops, both in (entry and cavalry, and of several batteries of artil lery, through this place, by the way of Papendrecht, has never ceased since Friday last ; and on Satur day we likewise saw a party of the same pass through here. They all took the road to Hardinxyeld.— This day English troops are likewise to pass through Papendrecht, who will cross the Meese, at Hardinsveld, and are probably destined against Ant werp. The amount of the Allied Troops which had al ready crossed at Werkendam, was,- - e.sterday estima ted at upwards of five thousandtten; and - many more must since have crossed, or will cross, at the same place. 'rwo bridges of boats are thrown over the Lek, viz. at Kulenburgh and at Vianen; the first was comple ted on Saturday, and the other yesterday. According to certain intelligence received, the ad vanced guards of the Cossaiks have already taken post within an English mile of Antwerp ; but of the cap ture of that place, however probable it is, and al though it was declared this morning as certain, by persons who arrived here from the Brabant side, we have as yet no authentic intelligence, -J• _ • Every thfigg.. DI books he had for e wished tha ' . 4 ). HELVOi been made. '' It is reported I was suggested, • Allies. uch a provision could be: British troops a found that there was tio , for Willianostadt. :ess could be determined. ROTTI e.transaction. _ With re- We have r ecriv AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER ii. In order to compel the fortress of Naarden to a speedy surrender, the Governor-General of this city, Krayenhoff, has determined on forming a corps of observation, to secure the villages and isolated dwell. ings in the vicinity of that fortress from plunder and murders. In Naarden there is already a great want of every thing : yesterday the bakers left off baking, as they had no more supplies of flour on hand. THE HEREDITARY PRINCE'S BIRTH DAY. HAGUE.—The .6th. was the happy anniversary of the Birth-day of his Illustrious Highness Willem , Frederick-George-Lodewyk, Prince of Orange and 1 Nassau, eldest son of his Royal Highness our dearly beloved Sovereign Prince. His Highness having on that day entered into the 22d year of his ago, the same was solemnly and joyfully celebrated here by the firidg of the guns, ringing of the bells, and the dis playing of flags on all public buildings, as well as private houses. His Royal Highness our Sovereign on the same .day gave audience, and the Court was very brilliantly attended ; and after the audience inspected a very numerous corps of English troops, which had disem barked at Scheveling. At the house of Baron Collot d'Escury, where his' Highness at present resides, a grand dinner was given to the principal Ministers of State, Generals, and Staff Officers of the army and** the troops of our Allies now here. In the evening, his Highness honoured the Dutch Theatre with his presence. As soon as he entered his box, the national favourite Willie/In- van Nanowenb, was called for, and executed by the Orchestra.— ' The loud applause and cries of Vivat Oranje, Viva Willem den 1. our Soverei gn Print e ! deeply affected his Highness. At night there was a general illumination. Th% French stamp is still continued on the Dutch Papers. They are marked " Vise pour embre Extra. ordinaise Besse-3 Centimes." In all the Dutch Papers, there are advertisements frcim Committees which are established in each town, for the purpose of supplying • the wants of families left destitute in consequence of those who supported them having, from zeal for the deliverance of their country, joined the standard of independence: These Committees, in general, sit from ten in the morning till or.e o'clock, to ieceive applications, and to inves tigate the claims made upon them. Prices current are advertised to be published as usual, at Amsterdam and Rotterdain. In some in=. stances, the prices of articlet in advertised sales are mentioned sometimes ip Frew* 'Nosey—franks and. centimes, Portraits of the - Prince and Princess of of' Orar te44 the Hereditary prince and all the (midi, are for sale by booksellers in the principal towns.'' •••': - • The price of . &ttineits 4g Ainsterd4m)_ on t (kb - ' instant, as appears by the Amsterdam Cat/east of the 7th. was 47 florins and a fraction per ounce. There are many advertisements of ships for Eng land. The Theatres are open in all the principal towns, and it seems that the Dutch are very fond of drama. sic entertainments.- The pieces chosen for represer. cation are chiefly of a patriotic nature, and founded on interesting events in Dutch history. The follow ing is frequently advertised—hit Turfichifi, of & Vire, voiles vats Breda: i. e. 44 the Turf Boat, or the Cor. quest of Breda." This play has been performed with great success and applause, at Rotterdam ace the Hague. The following is a Theatrical Advert:seraent fru:- one of the Amsterdam Papers : THE THEATRE. ,—K.AREL EN K AROLINA, a Drams. Acton—Heeren Westerman. Von Hold, Katurhayzen. Ram bath, Majutsid, Zeer rs, Wyman. Actrice—Mejufrow Itatimbuzren, formerly Snook. Followed by OD WI HET LANG GEWENSCHLE VRIMGDEFF.EiT ! of, Hrl KAMPMENT DES KOLAKKEN BUJ I F.NDE - ivitnpri POORT DE AMSTERDAM—[The Jong.driirrd F‘stivA, , or, the Encampment of the Cossacks before the tiktider Ga . " at Amsterdam)—a new Ballet, with now Decwati3a6. The same Pieces are advertised to.be performed or. the following day, for the benefit of the families N. the unfortunate sufferers at Woerden. REGNIER, DUKE OF MASSA. BONAPARTE'S GRAND JUDGE. The resignation, or more probably the distni.s%l of this faithful and zealous Jacobin, who has ce:- tainly for many years been BONAPARTE'S right hand in the interior government of France, is a most fa vourable omen for the restoration of old times to that unhappy country. It was probably one of the cause, which contributed to keep up the French funds.— Let us see of what materi.ds this Grand Jude is composed, lest he shOuld offer his services to any of the allied Sovereigns. REGNIER is the son of a waggoner near Nancy : educated by the Jesuits from charity, and by a sub scription of some noble families at Nancy, afterwards enabled to pursue the study of the law, the French Revolution found him an humble davosate of little practice, and less talent. He persuaded both the no bility and the clergy, that he was not only a loyal subject, but a sincere Christian ; and the united into. rest of these, the two first orders of the state, pro. cured him in 17S0 the election as a Deputy of the _Tier.: Etat to the States General, soon after called, and better known by the appellation of the Consti tuent Assembly. , Among these men REGNIER condticeed himself with,a- duplicity which he called prudence ; because he deceived all parties, while he was toutt:d and paid by them all. He was, howeier, both from birth and inclination, attached to those innovators who, like fiimself, had no property to preserve, and no morality to prevent them from regarding all the riches of France as their patrimony. In October, 1784, therefore, he was chosen by the National As sembly a member of the Financial Committee; and in May, 1790, of that of Legislation. put he never declared himself in any decided manner, either in de. fending the prerogatives of his King, the rights of his benefactors of the privileged classes, or the anar chical and destructive opinions of coospiratore, rebels, and atheists. On the 22d of June, 1791, he was sent as a repre sentative of the people to the department of the Rhine and of Vosges, to keep np the public spirit in favour of the Revolution, and to prevent an insnrrection, which the Natio s nal Assembly apprehended would be the consequence of the unfortunate departure from Paris of the betrayed Louts XVI. and his family at that period. Except some few arbitrary imprison ments and requisitions, he acted during this mission with moderation ; being yet, from the sentiments that he beard expressed every where by the majority of the inhabitants, uncertain whether loyalty would not finally crush rebellion. At his return to Paris, LA FAYETTE, the two bro thers LADIZTU, TALLEYRAND, BAREAVE, &EYES, and the other leading members of the Assembly, had been bought over by the Court; and to wear his crown of thorns some few months longer, the good, but ill-advised Lours XVL had enriched instead of punishing those traitors, to whom alone he owed all iris sufferings, and his subjects all their misery. Of these spoils of royalty REGNIER had his share; be, cause, after the KING had been forced to accept the code of royal democracy decreed by the Constituent Assembly, he went back to his province, and sud denly exhibited an affluence which was an humiliating and dishonourable contrast to the distressing situation of those plundered, beggared, or proscribed noble-. men and gentlemen, to whom he was indebted for every thing, except his ill-gotten riches. Hitherto REGNIER was looked upon as a man of moderate rather than of violent notions ; as mot:: .avaricious than sanguinary; as an intriguer, but no: as an assassin. But meeting with a well-deserved contempt, when, with the insolent airs-of an upstart, he pretended to an impertinent familiarity with his former patrons, he entirely threw off the mask, be ame a terrorist—a President of the Revolutionary :Committee at Nancy—and, as he signed himself, une .of the purveyor: fur the republican guillotine of Mc I itertnan*of La Meurtbe ; and among those whom he thus melded. far, and recommended to inevitaVe destruction s , were two noblemen who generously articled him as clerk to an attorney, who had elc, vated him, and paid for his board and lodging dui W WI ir tel hii of t It a c 1