Star. — London, England, 1810-06-14 00:00:00

• 'AV.i.a...:411.44.1 A pinarly,i. • [SMICE SIXPENCAMALFPENNY. - - • . ~..i . .p: i i iff , Wil! " t ITO ;, . 7 1 c , - 1 ..::........... . 4 . -.. , j :A y„ .! .11)''..... r, 72621 THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1810. . ' . ORIMIANCB OFFICE, Axe 1, 1820. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MA JESTY'', ORPNANCII, de hereby ghee NeOice, That Proposals will be received at their Office in Pall-Mall, ea er before Friday the 22d Jane instant, front such Persons as may b• willing to undertake the supply of Foreign Timber and Deals for service of this Department, for a period of one year, from is' lulu next. The Particulars of the Contract,and a Schedule of the Timber be obtained at the Secretary's Office, in Palace and Deals, may y ar d a f ore said, any day between the hours of ten and four edoels, where the Proposals must be delivered, sealed up and en. domed, p ro posals for Foreign Timber and DOs .s ! but no Pro. posal can be admitted after the said'224l instant, at twelve o'clock at noon v i t h e tame day, neither will any Tender be noticed u nless the party making it, of an agent in his behalf shall attend. By Ordrr of the Board, IL H. CREW, Secretary. ble inhabitants, in opposition to the; fornser petition which was recently presented from the said place, and which it stated to have been procured by the in fluence of a-factious party. It condemned the cen sure expressed by that party on the conduct of the House of Commons, and professed high respect for, and firm reliance on the House, for maintaining the constitution, and the rights and privileges of the people —After a few words from Mr. LIMON, it was order ed to 4ir on the table. Mr. PETER MOORE presented a Petition from the Householders of Coventry, against the measures adopted by the House of Commons, in the. Francis Burdett and Mr. Gale Jones. It stn as they ought to be, yet he knew it came from a class of persons who would not be disciosed to offer any thing offensive or disrespectful to the House. All classes of petitioners must not be supposed competent judges of the precise l a ngua g e which the House would deem sufficiently decorous ; and when men complained of what they conceived to be grievances, some latitude of expression must be allowed them ; otherwise he not know what was likely to become of the right of petitioning. Mr.\VALLACE was against receiving the petition. Mr. CALCRA Fr hoped the House did nut mean this indil • of rejecting the - case of Sir to pursue this indignant course of rejecting the peti- stated that dons of the people. Five or sit weeks ago, when the their lives first of the petitions on those subjects was offered to Commons the Ootiiii`thost k*.-.ned to feel it was rather Tor. Wait rat least 1 — v - 7. -eiktaine and discuss tale of the / Its . iodt 'before theyp - to rejection ; and 'r . thereilleikkgreed to adjouttithe upon it to ano- able. 4i . day. that thd_ Hog* an opportunity nit severs centre diMeratfotil . But of late proceeded to re_ gt on , cam. jest al-Host hummer. He thought it would be only LANnHAM ESTATE. MESSRS. HOGGART and PHILLIPS re spactfully inform the Public, that the Reversion to the l ite stive and Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES at LANG NAId and BOXSTED, ESSEX, advertised for Sale by Atm. don at the Mart , opposite the Bank of England, Todmorrow the g oi nt rant, TS DISPOSED OF EY PRIVATE CONTRACT. Broad-street, June 14, 1810. `~ SUFFOLK AND NtiltFOLK. lITANTErI to . PURCEIABE, in either Suffolk or v V 'Norfolk, a Freehold Estate, of the value of 50 or X 60,000, to consist of a Mansion House, Pleasure Grounds, Manors, and adjacent Lands. Applications, either personal, or by late (poet paid) to J. W. Ca'ey, Esq. No. 12, Holborn Court, Gray's Inn, London, will Tecrive immediate attention. TO JOURNEYMEN CORK CUrTERS. VrTANTED, eight or ten Journeymen Cork Cutters to whom the full London Wages and constant employ. meet will be given.—Apply to Messrs. I. and S. Powell, No. 39, Redcliff-street, Bristol Each Man will be allowed One Guinea far travelling expellees. LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 14. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s per Cent Cons. for money shut—opg. 714. Reduced 70-.4 per Cent. 85f 4-5 per Cent. N'sey shut. Both Houses or Parliament will be prorogued on Wednesday next by Commission. A meetings of the eleetors of Southwark was held yesterday, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of petitioning the House of CoMmons npon the subject of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and Mr. GALE !oves, and also relative to a Reform in Parliament. The Resolutions were moved by Mr. Bousvinn, and seconded by Mr. SHAW. After they had been car sled, an Address to his Majesty was proposed by Mr. REMMISH, on the ground that any petition to the House of Commons would be attended with no ad vantage whatever • This motion was also agreed to. Very little objection was offered to either proposition. Sir THOMAS TURTON did not attend the Meeting.— Hr. H. Titomerote, 'the other Representative, deli *red his sentiments at length, but the pressure of other matter prevents us from giving any farther ac count of the proceedings in this day's paper. We feel satisfaction in stating, that the hopes of the safety of Mr. Mum PAR K are strengthened by the last advices from Sierra Leone. The Government of that colony, in consequence of some information they' received, hired a schooner, which they fitted out with every thing necessary for the comfort and assistance 1 of this enterprising traveller, and sent it up the coun try undetthe direction of a merchant, who has been tesident in Africa some years. A person who was at Rotterdam on Saturday last states, that the disturbances are terminated ; and, the belief was, that King Louis would retain the throne, which met with general approbation. A report was circulated yesterday, resting upon whit authority we know not, that intelligence had been received by Government of an attack, under the command of Sir RICHARD &RAMAN, having been made upon the enemy's fleet at Flushing, which was said to hive sustained considerable damage. PORTSMOUTH, Jusim 13. —A rrived the ZeNowta brig from the coast of America ; CORMORANT from the %Vest Indies; HARDY from a cruize, and the Pluto. NLI. from Plymouth. Passed by, the ship Lady Har wood, under convoy of his Majesty's ship BLOND, all well. The Catherine, Captain Newat., passed by iiom the Downs, off the Isle of Wight, bound to St. Michael's, all well on the 7th inst. 13 . 41 2LIAMENTAIRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE I& Mr. Asutzy Con PE it presented Accounts from the Ordstanos Office In Ireland.—Ordered to be printed. The Duke of Bedford's Estate BM was referred to A select Committee. Mr. 11oss att. presented from the Tax Office, accounts of the expences or the Commissioners for the Redemption of the Land Tax.—Ordered to lie on the Table. The British Fisheries Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. DUNDAS moved, that a new Writ be issued for the tection of a Member for the County of Banff, in the room of the Lord Advocate of Scotland, who since hts Election had accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; and one for the Shire of Dumbarton, in the routn of Henry Olassford, Esq. t who, since his Electio n , h a d accepte d t h e S tewar d s hi p o f one of his Manors.—Ordered. Lord KENSINGTON gave notice that he should early in the next Session call the attention of the House to the Coal laws, if nothing were done in the interim to prevent such a motion. On the motion of Mr. WY NNE,' the Bribery Bill_was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. eakEvEY postponed his motion relative to the affairs of the East-India Company to Friday. On the motion of Mr. BANZILS, the continuation of the Debate in the I r i s h C ivil List was postponed to the commencement of next Stssions of Parli.uaeat. The Report of the Assessed Taxes Regulation Bill was re-colts.. raitted ; some amendments were proposed by Mr. GasnraLL, and greed to ; the Report was brought up, and the Bill ordered ra be read a third time this day. Prirows. The Sheri ff s of London rt presented at the bar the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mons of the City of London, voted in Common Council on Thursday labt.—On the motion of Mr. Alderman Comm it was ordered to lie on the table. Mr.ROBARTS presented a petition from the city of Worcester, which he stated to be signed It' sir magistrates, nine aldermen who h a d passed th e rai l, the Dean, and a number of the Clergy and respecti the petitioners were ready to support, ith all those privileges to which the Roil* of /was legally entitled ; but that they would feit their existence, than surrender ono. tittle cotitutional righti of British subjects; The Petition was ordered-to lie on the table. Lord BINNING presented a Petition froin Landholders in the County of Haddington, plaining of tin cypiesiive mode of collecting the Property Tar, winch was ordered to lie on the table. Sir JAMES HALL, in the absence of the member for Berwick, presented a petition from that town, the subject of which was not audible. The Hcniourable Baronet promised to move early in the nest session for a Bill upon the subject of it. MIDDLYSICX PSTITION. Mr. BYNG presented the Petition of the Freehol ders of Middlesex, voted at the Hackney Meeting on Friday last. The Petition having been read, Mr. Byng moved, that it do lie on the table. Mr. Secretary RYDER rose to oppose the motion. He felt it unnecessary to enter into any detail on the various topics of the petition just read, or to repeat 4tety of the arguments opposed to the reception of a former petition substantially the same. He felt it only necessary to call the attention of the House to one prayer of the Petition, which desired that the House would receive their former petition, which had been rejected for certain expressions of censure upon thew conduct of that House, and being couched in lan guage so offensive and insulting, that the House was bound not to receive it. The presenf petition inclu ded the substance of the former one, and was in the same lan e ; nage. Here Mr. BYNG rose, and assured the Right Ho. nourable Secretary that the language was not the same, and that the petition differed in many instances. Mr. Secretary RYDER 'maintained, that if the words were not precisely the same, the petition con tained the same censure upon the conduct of the House, and was expressed in language equally objec tionable ; the former petition was debated in the House on two days, and rejected by a considerable majority. There was another passage in the petition now offered which had caught his ear. It was that which told the House that the ancestors of the Peti tioners had claimed, and insisted upon, the right of petitioning, and that a rejection of their petition was a violation of that right ; and that if the seven Bishops who in the detested reign of James 11. had told the King he acted contrary to the law, and in subversion of the rights of the people, surely they had a right to hold a like language to those whom they considered to be their representatives, if they held the like opi .nion of their conduct. He should vote against the reception of the petition. Mr WHITBREAD said he was not in the House when the Petition was read ; but if it was couched in the same language as the one already rejected, lie certainly should not be for receiving it. From the speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman, how ever, he could understand his principal &ejection to he, that the Petition complained that the House of Commons had subverted the rights of the people, and that such language was not for the Petitioners to offer or the House to bear. But was there any thing new in this assertion ? Was it not notorious that the House of Commons had, at different times, subverted the rights of the people ? Had it not happened over and over again ? He would contend for and maintain the right of the people to express to the House their opinions, whenever they conceived it violated their rights. If the people petitioned to repeal an Act which they conceived and stated to be a violation of their rights, what would that be but a censure on the decision of the House of COMMONS ? and he would maintain that an expression of mere censure upon the decision of the House was no ground for rejecting a petition. The whole conduct of the House, from the committal of Sir Francis Burdett to the present mo. merit, on the subject of petitions, had been, in his opi nion, inconsistent and full of caprice : for many of the petitions which it had received had contained ex pressions much more exceptionable than those it had rejected : and unless those Right Hon. Gentlemen who opposed this Petition would establish same stan dard of criticism for the language of petitinn,it would be impossible for petitioners to know what language they were to dopt. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER supported the objections of Mr. • Ryder. He dis claimed any thing like the fastidious criticism imput ed by the Honourable Member to Gentlemen on his side of the Houle, as to the particular language of Petitions ; and said they were more anxious to excuse intemperate expressions, and indtcorous terms, in order to avoid the necessity - of rejection, when it was not indispensably called for by the respect which the House owed to its own dignity. The Petition was then rejected without a division . SUIFYIELD PETITION. I Mr. WHITBREAD then presented a petition,' signed by 6000 inhabitants of the town of Sheffield. It was on the same subject as the Middlesex Petition, and was opposed upon similar grounds by Mr. Ryder, 'who thought it impossible the House could rzceive a petition as exceptionable as that which they had just rejected. • . . . Lord, MILTON 444 that although his own senti ments were kno*n to diet* from those of this petition, • 'and thtmgh'tha eitisiOlia*in it *ate not so guarded tght n. ....- consistent with the respect the House owed to the peo- ple who approached that House with their petitions, to adjourn this discussion till to-morrow, and he moved accordingly. I General TARLETON supported the same idea, and regretted that the Right Honourable Secretary for the Home Department, who lately filled a situa- Van in a Military Office, should seem to have brought with him into that House, the principles of his mili tary education ; and to have adopted a conduct more calculated to support a military despotism than the principles of a free constitution. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended the conduct of Mr. Ryder, and opposed the Petition upon the same grounds. He said, it contained the. same language as the pamphlet of Sir Francis Bur: dett, for which the House had committed him to the Tower. Mr. STEPHEN opposed the Petition, and com plained of some comments therein made upon the speeches of two Members of that House (the Speaker and Mr. Ponsonby) respecting the imProper mode of obtaining seats. Mr. WH ITB RE AD supported the Petition, -and contended that latitude of expression must be aildwact to Petitioners; or hew should they describe. 'the grievances of which they compliiincdi That the j Privileges of the Haase . of Commons *embed in doubt, no man could question. A Committee of the House had reported their opinion that- the Speaker should appear and defend himself before *the Court of King's Bench, upon an action against him found ed on a denial of these privileges ; and the question now awaited the decision of a legal Tribunal. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the Honourable Gentleman had used the very same argument on the Middlesex Election Petition ; and he must oppose the motion, as no reasun had been given to chew that this petition was not as insulting to the House as any of the former vThich had been presented. Mr. W. SMITH spoke at some length in favour of the Petition, and nearly on the same grounds as Mr. Whitbread. _ _ _ Mr. YORKE allowed that the subject had a right to petition, but at the same time the House had a ' right to reject any petition containing offensive ex-!I presstons. It seemed to him to be evidently the in- I tention and system of all the Petitimers, to lessen and lower that House in the estimation of the public; and, therefore, they ought to be rejected. He was convinced the people were under a great delusion with respect to the privileges of that House ; and he thought it a fortunate thing, that these privileges should be confirmed by the Courts of High Record. Mr. C. WYNNE differed as widely as possible from the last Speaker, respecting the Law of Parlia ment: He denied that the Court of King's Bench, or the House of Lords, to whom it would most pro bably be carried by appeal, had any right to judge or take cogniaance et at ; and that nothing but an Act of Parliament could divest the House of those privileges with which it was invested. The question being called for, a division took place. For reeeiv• • ing the Petition Ik—against it 61.. PRIZES AND CAPTURE OF VESSELS. Lord COCHRANE, previous to his bringing for- I ward the motion of which he gave notice, moved that' there should be laid before the House, accounts of the net proceeds of Danish ships brought into port before the commencement of hostilities with Denmark, and of the net proceeds of Dutch vessels taken before No vember 5, 1795. Ordered. The Noble Lord then addressed the House on the subject and nature of his motion. He was aware that it would be opposed by the Right Honourable Gen tlemen opposite, and by the Heads of the Admiralty. He entered into a variety of statements, illustrative of the present situation of British and foreign trade. In the course of the three last year.i our home trade was decreased, as the numbers 51 to 17, or one twen tieth, and a little more annually, ana -this, notwith standing the communication with Spain being opened. The mariners of the Continent had increased is the same period from 23 to 29,000. In the British trade the tonnage has fallen as 37 to 25, or one third. The foreign trade has increased from 417,000 to 550,000 tons. Our imports and exports are equal to the in ward foreign tonnage alone. All these evils did not result from the machinations of Bonaparte, but frcm our bad councils. He was of opinion, that if half of the force of the kingdom was properly employed, the war would be concluded in 12 months. He thoug ht that no Minister should rescind the revenue arising to the Crown from war ; but if the Droits of the Admi ralty and of the Crown were to be continued, they . ought to be applied to the purposes of the State, and not of corruption. He adverted to the Bill now in the House for securing to the Chancellor of die Ex chequer ancthis brother the office of Registrar of the Admiralty ; he was far however frOnfattributing any improper motive to this. He did not deem It either Very sAtisfactory or useful, that .4 the ()IA thousand ir!ssels . now floating on the ocean, .the Admiralty should be acquainted with the situatiOn of each—ta stimulus was unnecessary to call forth the spirit of the Navy, fiat he thought that prizes should be :astir andltonestly appropriated ; if this system wii one established, the commerce of the coast of Frame* would soon cease. Having stated these preliminatits he now should enter into a detailed proof of transac tints, similar to which had been seldein brought be. fore the House. He first read the order authorising the capture of the ships of the subjecting those who neglected so to do damages in the Court of Admiralty. House to be acquainted with the nature of the King's Proctor, if any cause of complaintieftifas against him it is only by him that complaint made to the Judge. The Noble Lord number of Acts for encouraging the ertiott of the Navy, and proceeded to state of the Judges in the time of Queen ' subject of prizes, which was that all in her Majesty's name should be lawfully the captors have a liberty of going into to be allowed their own Counsel. person of the name of Stanlforth, a-proctor, use of his intet est to obtain an Order Council, to employ him, one individual, for the of all the captors claims, thus uniting interests of the King and of his clients, for both in a •double capacity, which to the law. The Courts of Law admit title them to insurance, and make them costs and damages. With respect to of the duty of King's Procter as it now ever might be the exertion of an indi. impossible to transact the business in It appeared from documents in his possession, on the 3d of June, 1806, the Proctor on his hands, on the 80th 29, and on vember, 59 ; this being the case, no fide their interests with safety in such . never in his life sent into the Court of neutral vessel ; there were many instances done, but it was on a bad speculatiol. tered largely into the case of W. 1 1 4 stated to be a British subject, and a nem% he had had an affidavit of Stanilorth's man to be a faithful and loyal subject, yet , time be could adduce documents to prove Moir had received the thanks of the missary of Marine for his services in the this was the faithful subject. He repeatO possessed documents to prove Mo:r ai - was reported as an object worthy of The Droits of the Admiralty amount millions sterling, a sum which he thong, chievous in the hands of the Crown, thi even in Spain. He concluded by movini ing resolutions:— " Tharthe officers and seamen of his Majesty's and were entitled to the highest support and considerati.m House, and that every inducement should be courage their exertions, and excite their emulation. " That by an order of Queen Anne, after the lawyers, It was directed that the Crown should , of captures, and that the Olficere might intervene for their own benefit. " That tkis order was superseded bf a decree . the 99 th of March, I 779, which vested in the King's conduct of all l'rize Causes. " That it is essentially requisite that captors their own Proctors as formerly. " And that leave should be given to bring better' regulation of proceedings in the Admiralty The first Resolution being put, Sir JOHN NICHOLS rose and said, the former solemn discus;ons in that H. not have supposed that the Noble Lord ventured to accuse the Officers of the Court ratty with a wish to wrong the captors. satisfactorily explained the case set forth ► Lord. The Honourable Gentleman observing, that the charges were made slightest foundation, and could only malignant suspicion of some secret, adviser of the Noble Lord. Mr. STEPHENS condemned, in mcnt manner, the introduction of the the consideration of the House, and the Noble Lord had made a pledge wholly unable to redeem. He trusted, Lordship's good sense would induce hi. confess his error, and in a disinterested tract the charges he had so incorrectly Honourable Gentleman then proposed first four Resolutions, and in lieu of the stitute one complimenting the Court __ for the integrity with which it had invariabl , ed the public interests. Lord COCHRANE replied. Captain BERESFORD bore testimon; nourable conduct of the King's Advocate casions. .Sir CHARLES POLE said a few port of the Resolutions. Mr. ROSE said there never was a ed charge than that submitted to the Noble The 'House then divided—ln favct'r rane's Resolutions 6—Against them 76 After a short conversation betweeen. and the CHANCELLOR of the EA:CHEWER, Report of the Committee appointed cedents relative to the case Sir F' was ordered to be re-committed, in the erroneous manner in which it had Mr. W. Wynne was added to the s iid SLATE TRADE. Mr. BROUGHAM postponed his to the Slave Trade, to this day. He anxious to bring the subject forward he heard, within the last two days standing the Act passed relative to tl traffic, no less than six slave ships were a British port within *short time past. TI e Orders of file Day wart then &pa* s e l iourned at Three o'clock this Mon** . s p se to p b. re r o li f mina tren ti sa 7 dodin brought be • of reprisal:4 f the enemy, and ) do to costs in He wished the. ture of the offic ' consplaintexi omplaint can lass ord then read. a 3e duty and ex- state the opi tion en Anne, oil the all vessels 'taken fully share A, and into Court, and • . After this a a-proctor, made rder of Council, the management Ling in one the ien:s, and acting ich was contrary lmit captors, en- e them liable to to the discharge ow stands, wbat- adividual, it LW'S in a proper, way.- ; possession, that t had 16 causes on the 19th No. D one could emi- ts a person,. He of Admiralty a Ince: of its being ).1. fie then en- Moir, whom he aturalized DARes 's declariqg this yet at the-same prove that this to French Coal. the I.lst war-- epeatO that he traitor, still he , f remuneration. tinted to eleven night to be mis- , this was not so wing the follow. tsty's navy deserved, consideratiJn of U, be herd out to to :he advice of eminent old prosecute in wit itervene is time caws' ccre* of Connell of King's Proctor the ars should appear by 2g in a Bill for the inky Court." said, that after ▪ House, he could .ord would have it Court of Admi. ptors. He most orth by the Noble n concluded" by aade Without the ly arise from the but dangerous in the most ?elle- n question under id observed that .;e which he was :ed, therefore, h.s him candidly to ested manner re- ctly made. The ed to negative the f the last, to sob- art of Admiralty, - nvariably consult- aimony to the ho- ivocate on all oc- few words in sup- s a more unfoond- lel-louse by the :111 f % 'oer of Lord Cush. )76—Majority 70. eenMr.W.WyaN E MIER, the Second ord to seek fot pre. r Francis Bdrdert, in consequenee of iad been prepared. Lid Committee. his motion relative for was particularly this Session, as . tys, that r.otwith- o that abominable were fitted out is 'St. sett of,ead the WIN • •