Star. — London, England, 1817-06-19 00:00:00

ll ri Mr. R. WARD (Mrtiabet tot Hatlettsere) said * he ► j j seen a letter from him so far back as 1813, in v.loch tit had stated that hr had the .reehoid in 1811, e.ghwen months before the el,ction. it the status of the (louse wvuld allow, he c•itild rve use .bsolute 11 : to the transaetinn. Mr. W. wan' said that there seemed to prevail a co ntused ides among the Members on the oth e r 1 ~de. Facts were stated which called tor inquiry, „,,1 it was the duty of the I - lAuse, in support of is • -ivileges, to enter upon that inquiry. Mr. WARD said, in explanation, that it was de. r •ci that the man was a fa g got : he was a real voter. Mr. W. SMITH said, it then came to a question t t rAct between the Petitions c and the Hon. Member. /.... irquiry world ascertain which was correct. !Jr. .BRAND said, if the Petitioner was not what VAS called a faggot, he was almost the only one at electonn who was not so, for he renumbered• be. t the Election Committee-- Mr. LONG rose to order. The Honourrible Mem. tr. A$ wandering from the question of the Petitioner. I RAND submitted that he was not out of or. rir-. (The Speaker assented that Mr. Brand was in :vier). At the time of the Hasiemere Election Com r,:• ee. he understood that all the votets had recently qualifi• d. llr. LONG rose again to order. It was wit corn. :e-nt to an individual Member of due Committee to ..k to the House as to proceedings before that Cc mi nee. Mr. BKAND said, in what a situation was the kielse placed. It they were neither to receive in. , otnution from the members of the Committee nor Iran the Petitioner, since the Committee bad net itt• ►fired into the subject at the time, it could get no in :mation at all. He did not wish to speak then of :::comstances, respecting which there seemed such a Je:icacy on the other side, but he conceived there was irregular in receiving the Petition, which .4s affect, orderly, and decorous in language ; sad e (lamed the House not to close its dons agaica r.:h complaints. The SPEAKER said be thought it proper to ob sirre, that the substance of the petition WAS quite ilifferent from its prayer. The substance contained complaint of personal injury ; but the prayer did not at all attach If that complaint. Upon the merits of petition he should not think it bait:tiring in him to offer any opinion ; but he felt it right to point out the diEculty of the case—the petitioner first com plaining of his own wrongs, and then petitioninl the lionise to take care of its own privileges. It the prayer of the petition referred to the complaint ut the r estioner it would undoubtedly be entitled to every it:tention. Hot in such peculiar circumstances as the case presented, it would be for the House to decide :.yon the generality of the plan on the one hand, and 142 , in the fact on the other band ; that the prayer was by no means a fair index of the substance of the ptition. • S.r FRANCIS BURDETT shortly replied. He telly contuired in the character which had been given of the Noble Lorti ; an that he complained of was, the Iys t.at of borough-mongering, and to that mode of making Mem toc of Parleaustret. lie had brought the matter before the House, but was not accountable to any one for the particular nto• eves of Inv conduct. His object was to expose the system of borough dealing, and he abould nut suffer the matter to rest here, teen if the Hoax should reject the petition. The business was tve. confinz4 to . Haslemere alone, but it aught be said ex as* &me cares.- -.:like House divided, when the numbers were—frot re toying the pets tun I 14-Agaiust tt 47--Alsjoelly 91. • The Sinoggistag Pireention had, the American 1 rade Bill, end ee Pose-horse Doty Bill, were severally read a first time, and or &red to be read a second time xainurnser,--stdjentneds THE EVENING STAR.. I.ONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1817. PRICE OF S I'OCKs THIS . DAY AI TW EI.VE O'CLOCK a Reduced 73ii--Cuosols shot—Comols for Opg. 741 1 S 4 per Cent. 92 Nave, gut—Bank bong Awls. Win Burtch SS a 6 ere.—Exch. Balls So. 13s. pr. A FIFTH REPOKT has this day been issued by the Meet Committee on Finance, embracing the latsu CIVIL EsTIUATES. These Estimates are divided into two classes:— those which provide for suds charges as come under Tbe meaning of that clause in the Act of Union, which enacts that a certain sum shall annually be applied in the encouragement of Agriculture or Ma nutactures, and in maintaining Institutions for Pious, aid Charitable purposes : and those which ate for the Services usually termed Miseeltsneous. ' 'l'►,e amount of the former is 0252,257—0 f the latter, sel 41,660. - The increase during late years, the Committee re mark, has been chiefly in the first branch of the Esti mates, a much larger sum having been devoted by the libtr.lity of Parliament to benevolent and statis ecal purp,ses, than was stipulated for by the Act of Vas on. On a compArison, however, between the Estimates for the present year, and those of last year, the Corn ro;ttee state, that it will be perceived with satisfac t;on, that a reduction has been made in the first branch to the extent of i 1105,377 ; and iu the scrond to the extent of £47,718. The Committee particularly desire attention to the redaction which has taken place in the Expenditure of the Board of Works—a department which has so ftequetitly occupied the attention of the House. The Expenditure of that Department, on an average of four years to January, 160:), appears to , have been A 54,000 ; of four years to 1816, A:31,700 ; and the estimate for the Expenditure of thiz year, is reduced to A 21,500. The Committee conclude with remarking, that Many of the charitable Institutions appear to them to be of very doubtful advantage to those classes of society in whose favour they have been established; and that the expediency is more than questionable yr drawing together into the capital of any country Large bodies of people, desirous of partaking of the , temporary support which these Institutions may afford. The Committer, however, refrain from strz gesting at presort any trduetien itt the afllOttht of their Establishment, underetanding that the people of Ireland have been accustoms I to ldek upon them not only as affnrdips a valuable relief t , ) many easel or gte.tt distress, but as proving the liberal disposi. tion of Parliament towards that part of the United Kingdom. It is certain, the Committee add, that these endowments far exceed nay thing of a similar i nature in Great Britain. The acquittal of WATSON, and the other persons against whom indictments were preferred for High Treason, has been followed by the discharge of seve ral individuals confined on the sense charge. Yes terday WILLIAM Culla and WILLIAM HALL were conveyed from the House itf Correction by Mr. AD- Stse . the Governor, and Assistant to the Secretary of Slide's Office for the Home Department; also CASLY and GEORUE BAITTELL, who were ap prehended at Gravesend, in company with THISTLY,- WOOD, what he was about to embark for America in disguise. A man of the 'tune of MO9GRID:74 Yr,IS also conveyed to the Secret try of State's Office by Mr. Nonoca, the Governor of Tuthill-fields Bride. well. They all underwent examinations before Lord S!DMOUTII, the Law Officers, Sir NATHANIEL CO NAN r, &c.; after which they were discharged out of custody. The case of Mr. FALL, we should hope, is a sin. gular one. He is an engraver or some eminence, has a large family, and is a man of a quiet and or derly demeanour, who has not troubled }:imself wi'h politics lot twenty years. He knew hot on what ground he was taken up, and could only guess at what led to it. He has a slight acpaintatme with a Mr. Mecmunce, and learning that th.tt person had been apprehended as having some concern in Tans rucwoon's affair, he called upon his wife (as his own friends afterwards did on Mrs. Ham.), to learn the truth : soon after he reached his own home he was himself apprehendwd; he therefore conjectures that some spy must have watched him home from Mrs. Moor:runt:es. We have ourselves no doubt that Mr. Hatt•'has I guesseJ the true cause of his arrest. But what a lesson does it hold out to the people of England I tol the Representatives of the people of England I When it is known that such abuses flow out of the system of espionage, men should surely pause before they put themselves and their fellow subjects at the mercy of such miscreants ? We speak now of the case of Mr. HALL (for we have no doubt that some of the per sons who have just been acquitted of the chargi of High Treason would have found great difficulty. perhaps an impossibility, to establish their innocence bad they been tried for sedisian)—but we speak of the case of Mr. HALL, and we ask by what means could he, or any innocent man, imprisoned on the charge of a spy, have brought his case to a hearing while the Habeas Corpus Act remained suspended ? In one word, what shield is left to any man to ward off the ruin of himself and his family if he may be kept in prison, without trial, on the charge of an Oliver, or any such hurter for Blood•money Let us hope that Ministers themselves have only been deceived by the reports of their own spies— that they acted on the belief that their intelligence *was correct. Yes, we can believe they have been imposed on by their spies; for we will not believe that they imprisoned Mr. Ilat.z. or any individual whom they knew to be innocent. But it the Suspen sion of the Habeas Corpus Act may lead to the ruin of private individuals, by the deceptions which may be practised on Ministers, it ought not to be continued for another moment. It is nothing to the purpose to tell ns that whatever powers Ministers may exercise under the Suspension, they will do it on their own responsibility, What remedy does this offer to the individual who suffers in his character or in his pro ' perry ? None whatever. Fors Bill of Ineleasily is generally the precursor of the restoration of the rights of Engli•.hmen. Yes ! Ministers are put beyond the reach of prosecution for any injuries inflicted on indi viduals by the discretion or indiscretion of Ministers, while the laws are at any time suspended. Ministers have, however, on the present occasion, the praise of having, as soon as the falsehoods which were imposed upon them by a Cattle and an Oliver were exposed, promptly liberated such as were im prisoned on their Tale: of Treaton. And it is probable that they will now pursue a new course. We have indeed every reason to believe that .this has been a subject of serious discussion in the Cabinet. On this there are even some strange rumours in circulation; and it would no way excite our surprise, should a hew arrangement of the Administration be the result. Indeed it is confidently asserted that the issue of the late trials has already led to a direct schism in the Cabinet; and it is added, that Lord Livenooot., as a leader in the House of Lords, and Mr. VANsITTART, with respect to the House of Commons, have seve ' rally cleared themselves in the proffer quarter from all charge of participation in these measures. Lords LI VERPOOL, EVENCILR. GRENVILLE, and COLCHESTER, it is now said, will, take upon them the functions of Ministers, and Lord ELoor continue to be Chancel lor. So much for the House of Lords. The other expected changes in the Commons have not yet got into circulation :-we have heard the name of Mr. Maxims Smarr, the new speaker. men tioned, as likely to form one of the new Ministry. Among those who retire, are mentioned the names Lord 010f.furrn; Mr. H. ADDINCtoX i acid Mr. I n DATIMRST ; but in fact the whole arrangements are yet far from being settled * and it is quite imposs , ble to anticipate the client of changes which may arise when difterences once become so furrnilible as tr, cause an absolute schism. There are various rumonrs as to the assertions of crimination and recrimination connected with late affairs, but *e forbear to repeat them.-- . -If• the ru. moors have any foundation, they will no doubt soon lead to an exited. in the form of a Parliamentary speech by one or snore of the parties. Of one thing we are assured, that some Members of Parliament, who we►e induced to believe that the state of the country is actually such as to require the suspension of the usual course of the laws, have withir, these three days changed their opinion, and will now vote against any farther suspension ; and that others have begun to waver, and will not be held ple4ged to sup. port that measure. We conclude our remarks by simply stating, that in every circle in the Metropolis there is at this mo ment great anxiety to hear intelligence from the diffe- rent parts of the country where the victims of Oliver's assiduity are in custody. From the promptitude with which Ministers attended to the situation of the priso ners in the Metropolis confined on treasonable charges, it is believed they must, it the same time, have turned their attention to other districts, and the result k expected to be soon made known through the me dium of the Provincial Journals. KENT COUNTY MEETING. Yesterday a Meeting took place at Maidstone, of the inhabitants of the County of Kent, for the pur pose of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. The as sembly took place in the High•street of the town, and waggons were placed in the open street for accommo dation of the principal persons.—The High Sheriff W. FIRM MORLAND, Esq.) took the Chair, which was an erection in oue of these waggons made for the occasion. The Earl of Tummy first addressed the Meeting, and concluded with moving —That a Petition be _presented to .the House of Commons, praying that the HabeasCorpusAct might be nofurther impended. Mr. RlDalt seconded the motion ; which was also ably supported by Sir - ROBERT WiLsoN. Mr. JuklN DAY opposed the petition, and moved a Res o l u tio n , that the thanks of the Meeting be given to his Majesty's Ministers for the manner in which they had terminated a war so glorious to the British Nation. Upon this an Amendment was moved by Mr. RI DER, to leave out all the words after 4. that," and to substitute in the place of them, .4 The Meeting ex press its detestation And abhorrence of the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers." Mr. DAY then withdrew his motion, and the amend. ment was also dropped, as a matter of course. The question on the petition was then put, and ,caniesi in the affirmative, witl,ottly owe (Mr. Drys) dissentient voice. Mr. RIDItt next moved two Resolutions ; the first declaring tae opinion of the Meeting that the House of Commons had shewn a marked neglect to wards the petitions of their constituents, and had evinced a degree of haste uncalled for, and inconsis tent with the importance of the subject, in passing the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill. The 2d Reso lution proposed thanks to the Earl of Thanet, Lord Sondes, Sir William Geary, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Bar net, and Mr. Smith, for their earnest support of the petitions of the people in Parliament. Thew Resolu tions were carried. The thanks of the Meeting bsving been given to the High Sheriff.-the Meeting was dissolved. Tranquillity and good order were maintained da ring the whole time. and the people subsequently dis persed id as orderly a manner as they had listened to the discussion of the question. MEETING AT CHESTER. Friday last a Meeting convened for the purpose of petitioning against the tarthrr suspension of the Ha beas Corpus Act, was held at Chester, when Mr. SWAN WICK moved a series of Resolutions to that ef fect, atid a Petition grounded thereon. He prefaced his motion with a speech, concluding thus 1 have good authority for stating, that persons have been sent from Manchester to London, ironed as felons usually are, and accompanied with neck irons, to be put on at the discretion of the otlicers who escorted them, and that upon examination by the Secretary of State, these persons have been found guiltless of any crime, and consequently d.scharged. Sir, lam quite at a loss to conceive what arguments our oppo nents can adduce to justify them in opposing a peti tion against an enactment which exposes Englishmen to such treatment as this. What is there in the state of the country to require this,dreadf ul measure f We have heard - of plots and rumours of plots, but the In here, and lo there, of the day and the morrow, have still proved to be no where at last I To be sure, there was some time ago a number of men at Man. chester, aimed with blankets, and some of our fel low citizens, 1 find, are of opinion, that a blanket is a very formidable weapon—they dread a blanket as much as .Santa Nam did, and perhaps for the same reason I (I.aegltiez.) But our worthy neighbours must be told that the Suspension Bill is nu detence against a blanket ; the blanketeers might hive brought their. woollen artillery into action, and thrown up the Boroughreeves and Constables to their hearts contents, il there had been nothing to prevent them but a warrant lying till wanted at the Secretary of State's Office, in London." A:ter a long discussion, Colonel BARNSTON moved a counter-Retool:1, which was seconded by the Rev. Prebendary Mannocic. ne noise and contusion which ensued, as each petition was put, entirely prevented the Mayor from deciding whose petition was most approved of. A division was then called for, and a majority appeared in favour of the petition against the far tLer suspension of the Habeas Corpti4 Act. 'RENCH PAlsgßg. The Paris Papers of ".fon,tay arrive.] this Mottling; Bret contain ng.thing of any intrre.t, E.:ceps the wet. collie intelligence t;f st must promising harvesr, and fall, in consequotice, in the price of provisions. RiCe has (411:11 . 110 , 1 , 16 eel per quintal ; b.rley eight francs per Mid- (twelve Li-hels) aid other grains bare &dined in the same propor tion. This ftll will oot fail, we trust, to be att.nded with a hentfizial re...iction on the markets of our own country, the rising- prices of which, for some time pint, have been a source of no iaccrisiderable prehensios. HAMBURG!! MAIL. The Mail of-this day has btottglit us Hatriburph 2nd other Journals tai the 15th instant. The foll)w. log are the only articles deserving of any noti.ze PRI VATE LETTER. fIIANICFIPT, 17NE. 13. II The Project of a kescilwirn on t!leCotrpeten,y of the Diet is now finished by the Committee Pp pointed for that purpose, and wid, it is thought, b! proposed and decided upon in one of the nest meez lugs of the Diet. The competency of that As , .er::. hly, in all cases v'hcre complaint.: are made of r. c!••- nial of justice, has been decided pisitively in the 0- - firmative, and hid down with the greatest prevision." HANOVER,. JUNE /0. His Rayal Highness the Duke of Cimbritte kr the city again today. to continue his tour of siolamy inspection and retiew of the troops in different parts of the kingdom, from which he is expected to return hither en the 28th instant. Count Munster well shortly return to England. NAFAL IN7RLMGENCE. Extract a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Buenos Ayres. datrd 13th of April : " The private brig of war Regent, Monson commander, at. rived here on the . 2dltistant, with the Spanish East India ship Triton, Captain FAINCI.OI/61. from Calcutta, bound to Cadiz, with a valuable cargo of silk and piece goods, trimated at up• ward of a millimrianit an half of dollar. , captired off the Cape Verdi,de atter a gallant defence of two hours and a half, in which this Triton halthe. arid mate and tio men killed. The Regent was fitted tint at Baltimore, under Puri& colours, an I was only 17 days et sea Ironi .tea: port when *he WI to Wth the Triton. The privat era San Martin, and la Indepietitirr.ce have sailed; the former ,we suppose will cru!ze oil Cadiz, 21t.i the latter oil the Western Islands. In the instructions given tis these cruisen they are directed to be partien at mit to 'stoke; any ship ur vessel under the Spanish flag eruceeding with cargoes mom punt to ports iu the brazils, or num aay part ut tbe Bra ails to the Blear Plate. " We have eodeavoured to iscertsin deal induce tl e Covepninetit to Jamie suck ciders. but we have barn Wee( it. The Privateers Clsarables, labcrtad, and C.O .ei i.n. tta, are etpeeteil to sail in a fcw days; most pruhably they will cruise off the Coast of apain." FAINIOUTIL JUNE, is Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet, nit! for New-York and fhlif.tx.—Wind PLYMOUTH, H.121F. 17. Arrived the HIND cutter. from Francs ; ar•c! Al bion, PERIAM, from Lvgliorn.—Wind • PORTSMOUTH, JUNE td. AMTe 7 4I the Ebenezer, BAR, Iron: ; ard the Guildford, JOHNSON, trom Bengal; sailed 27,h of January, left the Cape 9th April, and art ived off St. Helena the 20th April; but did not anchor. The Mangles, Lady Cairington, mid Lady Campbell, were left at Bengal. The American ship Rufus, Captain CURES had put into the Cape leaky, and would be'obliged to di.chatge part of her cargo: she Was tram Batavia, and bound to Amsterdam. The Nile, from Dublin to St. Vincent's, was spoken ky the Guildford on the 20th May, all well.—Sailed the Foxhound, WaLicra, for New Sonth Wales; and the Brilliant, Matuaut.xa, for Havannah. Wind S. E. DF.AI„ JUNE is. Arrived the Viscount Ezniouth, C.,no, from St. Domingo. Caine down horn the R;ver and the Duke of York, fur Lanka ; '.saraniieno, Santander; and 5.rr.411, for Ktvre.-..Wind N.E. LIVCRYOOI., JUNE 17. The Kingsmilt sailed ►rom hence for Calcutta the 9th instant, and put back to-day, with the h.si tore and umin'top-mastc. Philadelphia Pagers to the 21st May arrived this morning, but contain nothing worth extracting. Letters arrived this morning from Buenos Ayres, dated April 14th, mention, that numbers nt En;itsh have lett Monte V de.), and gone to seta:: at Chili. A Madam Gazette Extra2rdinary was published on the 28th of Janual y, announcing the succevi of the snack made by Major MACDOWALL on a body of predatory horse, in the vicinity of Mooruliee, on the morning of the 151 h. There was scarce any loss on our side, while the predatory bands had a gleat num ber killed and wounded, and lost 1,001/ hoibes sit dif terent descriptions. Mammas, JANLI ARV 29.-a-Sllll'witre.--TiliS morn ing arrived his M.lirsty's -ship MAGiciEsNit, Captain Purvis, horn TfincoMeice, b iara the whole of the passengers which lately embarked on the homeward-bound ship Albion, Ca i nain 01.1%44 for England. This ship was totally lust on Suiiday night the 12th instant, in Trincomalee harbour, by striking on a rock ; we ale happy, however, to be enahled to add, that not a single lite was lost on this melan choly occasion ; the ship did not go, we understeml, to pieces far two Jays atter she snuck. which enabled the passengers and crew to be landed at Trinromale,, but the whole of the cargo arid baggage aie The p.icktr, we hear, is saved. Hia. txcellency the Admiral, atter model lily evor y ass:stance in hey power to the wreck, diipatetied his..!ti p with the le, - ;- sengers to this putt, where they anti Close toe. givahy entbarited item - arrived early tins morning. The following are the passengers that emb;:kei from this place, and are artived I:, the MachciP.N%): Major-General and Nlr. 'Taylor, and Ws. I. wis, Mrs. Griis )2 , , George C.Jern.ia ;41,1 li. 'Le Ilonouralue eorapaay's CVO Sereice. I.y•Si.i aayiur r El•Zii *Cellar, hue T-ylor, ; feb,tnrs lul) Le rage. lttrory botneurt 1 aylur, aria tAlw,r Leoos CAptain CLEAVELANa, of the Coast ArtilL.ry, and Ensign DAvies, of Its Nlajest)'s I landed shortly before the accaJenti.ccuricd, t0....t Oil:: whole of their baggage. A • :1 1 1 ' l a . • El