Star. — London, England, 1821-02-01 00:00:00

Mr. J.-BROWN declared it had appeared to him Who the object of the Noble Lord to keep the mat ter now in debate perfectly clear of the question of the gwlt or innocence of the Queen. NVhen others i were so angry that those opposest to thetreconsidered the Queen guilty, he thought he had as good a right to complain of their assuming that she was innocent, after a Bill of Pains and Penalties had been brought in against her, and carried to the second reading. It had been stated by her most eloquent advocate in the House of Lords, that, as she had virtually been found guilty, he could not consent to the Divorce Clause being withdrawn. The Queen had been virtually convicted on the third reading; and yet it was con :ended that she was now to be held up to the world with all the honours of the virtuous Queen Char lotte !—(Hcar, hear). He objected to the proposed grant, as extravagant and improper, seeing it went to place on the same footing with one of the best and most virtuous Queens, one who, to say no mote, was more than suspected of not being quite so good.— With• these feelings, he should be happy to vote for a smaller sum. _ _ --- After the Gallery was again ordered to be cleared, • Mr. LAMB rose. lie said, his wish always was that this business should never be brought forward.' As the proceedings against her Majesty had been brought to a conclusion, he must consider her as vir tually acquitted; and, therefore, he thought her name ought to be restored to the Liturgy. Ori these grounds he also thought she was entitled to a provision. At the same time, he also thought it would have been' altogether as favourable for her if she had in the first instance accepted the E 50,000 a-year which had been offered to her, before any trial came on—(Loud cries; of Hear, hear). —And even at the conclusion of the it. would have been as well if she had given upl this point of the Liturgy—(Hear, hear).—And al though he would not presume to condemn, he could not help lamenting the Message which her ;Majesty had sent down to the House that day. It would be unwise for the House to alter its course in consequence of that Message. In pursuance, then, of tile duty which he owed to his country, and with a view of calming the agitated state of the public mind, he should vote far the House goinr , into a Committee—(Hear). Mr. BIIOUGHLI said, he should not long oc cupy the attention of the Ilousc after the question had been so faly discussed. In justice to her 3lajesty, and as a party in that triad in which she had been acquitted, he 'hould claim the in d:.l:.,, trice of the House for a short time. Ile should put it to lion. Friend, whether he was justified in making the obser vation he had done respecting her Majesty? Tha position of his lion. Friend must mean, if it meant anything, that every body who had made charges aZaiust the Queen was right; that her Majesty was wrong in everything; and that, after the pro ceedings against her had been concluded, she ought to have ac knowledged herself wrong; although the King himself bad, with a voice that was echoed through all parts of the country, proclaimed the whole of the proceedings against her . Majesty to be concluded. For his own part, the fullest conviction rested on his mind that the Queen was entirely guiltless—( Hear, hear) and that the Court which tried her, constituted as that Cant WAS, had pronounced her guiltless; and that the proceeding of the Court was not even so strong in her favour as the confes sion of the prosecutor himself. In the opinion of his Honour able Friend, her Majesty ought now to give up all claims to ker privileges, and crouch to the proceedings that had taken place. Ile went as far as to say, that after an actual, and not a virtual acquittal, she ought to come forward and acknowledge what oven the prosecutor did not dare to advance; and that she ought now to do an act which would endanger the tranquillity of the country, and might even be fatal to her own repose and security. If he Cllr. ISlougham) had conceived that thL Liturgy was a thing of no importanceno more than as dust in the balance of this question, the Noble Lind opposite would have relieved him from all doubt, by the manner in which he treated the question. At one time the Noble Lord looked on the exclusion of her Ma jesty's name as a stigma : now he called the abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties a technical acquittal, and would assume that the Bill ought to band the consciences of that Houle, although it had never come down there. He never heard any thing more moderate in its tone than the Nlessage sent down to the House by her Majesty that day. There was nothing in it like a tone of dictation, and he merely said, that the intended' vote of the House would be needless, because she would not ac ccde to it, while she continued in a state of degradation. How could such a Message as this be coostreed into disrespect to the House lie could lay his Land on his heart, and conscientiously declare., that he saw no means of terminating these discussions, except by doing justice to her Majesty, on the principle that she who had been acquitted, ought not to be treated as if she were guilty—(Hear, hoar). Mr. BRIGHT conceived it was the duty of the House to proceed immediately to the proposed grant ; and he thought the Message of her Majesty this day, was an additional reason why the House should do its duty in voting the proposed sum to the Queen. ' as the only means of tranqui ll izing the country— (!W ear). Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) supported the motion for the Speaker leaving the Chair.—(Here there were loud cries of " Withdraw, and clear the Gallery !") Mr. WESTERN rose to speak in reply, but finding the dis position of the (louse to be against any further discussion, he would not occu r -y any of its time. The nintion for the fireman. leaving the Chair was then car ried without a division. The House having accordingly resolved itself into a Committee, Lord CA STLEREA GH rose and said, the only quer ion on which the Committee had then to deli.rerate was, what should he the proper quantum of allowance to he granted to bur )la jesty ? lie should propose such a provisiou as he considered suitable to her present situation. In looking at the condition of her Majesty, it appeared to be that of a Queen Consort sepa rated from the IZ:ng. It was a separation recognized by hia late Majesty. and our which had been felt by him as inevitable. The provision, ther:fore, could not be that of the Queen living in the Court of her husb-mi, and keepinr, up all the forms of State along with him. If the Queen survived his Ith.jesty, she would be entitled to a dower of fifty thousand pounds a year; therefore he thought the same income should be given to her senile living separate from her husband, and which was the Sallie as that proposed tote given to her in 1514.—The grounds on which the House then made that provision existed at this time. It was on the same ?rinciple that a similar offer had been made to her at St. Omer s. The Noble Lord concluded by moving :—" That it is the opinion of this Committee, that his Majesty be enabled to grant annually the sum of £50,000 out of the Consolidated Fund, for the sole and separate use of her Majesty, during her Majesty's life." Mr. STUART WORTI.EY objected to the granting a sum to this amount; for he safe great danger in placing so large a sum in her hands—in the hands of one who had used such un warrantable language in her Answers to various Addresses, and particularly in her Letter to the King. He defied any man to say that such fentiments as they contained were not directly calculated to overturn the Constitution of the Country—(Loud cries of Hear, tear). Gentlemen most recollect, that that House had often refused to grant much smaller sums to other branches of the Royal Family; and the Queen ought to consider it as a great favour if the House voted her a less sum than .€50,000. He wished that matters should return so peace and quietness, and that all proceedings might drop; and it was for that reason he would not propose an Amendment to the Motion. But he should nut feel he had done his duty, if he dlcrnot hold in re probation, the language used by her Majesty. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought it highly improper to throw out such a charge against her Majesty, after her severe and bit- ter trial. Ile quoted a passage from the Histoey of Henry VIII. in which it appeared that Cardinal Wolsey had made a similar charge against Queen Catherine, of having gone much abroad, and endeavoured to gain the favour of the people, to the great danger of the King's person. Abe very same Spirit seemed now to actuate certain persona in the country, and he did not think that any man of common generosity would have Imputed it as a crime to her AlJjesty, that she bad throw. knelt on the people tor supper.. Mra HUME rose amidst some expressions of impatient', and defended the Answers of her Majesty to the Addresses.. They were constitutional truths, and be did not espect some Honour able Members to admire them. They expressed sound morality, , and were consistent with the Christian Religion. Mr. STUART WORTLEY observed, that ea far from being constitutional truths, he considered them seditious libels, and he should give notice, when the House resumed, of his intention to address the King, to lay the Queen's letter before the House. Mr. HOLM NE SUMNER thought it impossible to concern- ! plate the provision intended for her Majesty previous to her marriage, as that by which the House should be regulated , after what had passed in another place. The Honourable Gentleman on the other side had said, that it was unmanly, on the present occasion, to advert to the put conduct of the Queen. Strange ! the House was to bear from those Gentlemen of conspiracies and of bribes, and of subornation of witnesses; but the facts elucidated, not by the evidence of those witnesses, but by that , of the witnesses of the Queen herself—those facts the House was, in humanity, to pus over.—(Hear, hear! from the lards- , feria' Benches.)—lf the Queen had shewn any contrition (groans front the Opposition), be would have been the last man to say a • word about bee past conduct; but he would not suffer himself • to be put down by clamour. To his mind there never had been a clearer case of adulterous intercourse, or of degrading conduct in any class of life, than that which had been proved against the Queen—(Grunts.):—Gentkmen on the other side said that her Majesty stood acquitted. He (Mr. 11. Sumner) thought that she stood as convicted, and not brought up for judgment ! (Lough from the Ministerial Benchea)—The conduct of the Queen was, and had been, one continued effort to bring into contempt every institution in the country. She had vilified the House of Lords; she had defied diem, and she had said., " You may decide what you please ; but I will appeal to the feelings of the people." It had been said that her Answers to the Ad dresses presented were answers written in a moment of irrita tion. That might have been the case with respect to the first, second, or third; but their language became every day stronger and more seditious. The very Message which had but then been received by the House skewed a spirit of determined hostility and a determination to keep alive the disturbed feeling of the country; that Message evinced a disposition which ought to put every Member of the House upon his guard; which should in duce him to pause before he committed such ample means to the guidance of her Majesty. The Honourable Member was sur prised that no one had yet moved for an account of the sums advanced to the Queen since she had been in this country ; and indeed her Majesty ought.properly to have given the House some information as to the manner in which those sums had been disposed of. He heard, not only from public rumour, but from authority to which some respect was due, that the Queen bad sot paid a single private bill since she had been in England!— Rear, *hear, hear!)—There was not a tradesman paid.— Groans.)—The house ought to know bow the money had been isposed of. If it had not been paid to those who were enti tled to it, perhaps it hadiseen paid to prompt all the fine pro cessions to Brandenburgh-house ; or to the Press, which in stilled its daily poison into the ears of the whole - community. — e Giving to the Queen all the benefit of an acquittal, he thought £30,000 a-year an ample income for a woman who had been CM years separated from her husband ; but he would go no further. The Honourable Member then moved, as an amendment to the original modoo, that an income of afao,ooo per year should be granted to her Majesty. Dr. LUSILINGTON thought it matter of regret, that the Bill of teens arid•panalties had not passed from the Douse of Lords to an assembly where it might have been discussed with all that temper, niciekration, humanity, and justice, which had so conspicuously telotned the speech of the Honourable Mem ber for Surrey--(a lang!.; —that iloneurable Member was the first man in that House who had presumed to utter, who had dared to declare—(heareind order)—who had dared to declare, that the Queen had been approved and found guilty of adultery --(hear). The Hon. Member for Surrey had not followed the wise example of the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Castlereagh), who hail prudantly ab-tainted from comment on the subject; but, not having been called upon to judge the cause—having heard, in all probability; the evidence but imperfectly—having, perhaps, merely read the evidence without seeing the witnesses —the lion. Member came forward, uncalled, unasked, to de clare her Majesty, in his firm conviction, guilty. Really, when he looked at the whole train of proceeding, and thought of the opinion which the Hun. Member (ialr. Holing Sumnet) had pronounced, he did not think that the Queen might have met a fairer trial from a jury of convicted felons—(hear and crdcr)— with a Judge not appointed for political tergiversation, than could be anticipated Irons persons who condemned her even un heard. And upon what description of proceeding was she so condemned ? Upon a dill of Pains and Penalties—upon a pro ceeding which was not only repugnant to every constitution:.) principle—but which, even wnea given up half way, produced almost all the bad consequences to the party attacked which could have resulted from its beieg prosecuted to conclusion. The Honourable Member for Surrey had taken :Iron himself to de cide rather harshly and rather hastily. Was that Honourable Member acquainted with all the motives by which legal advisers were likely to be influenced? 'Was he so clearly aware of the plan and principle upon which her Majesty's defence had been conducted ? Was it not possible that the legal advisers of her Majesty might have had, during the whole proceeding, an eye, is prospect, to the. How eof et:amens? Who could say that the fact was not so? And when it was known that witness after witness continued to arrive after the defence was over, common humanity, Dr. Lushington should have thought, would have dictated the more favourable conclusion. The lion. and Learned Member then adverted to what bad been said by Mr. H. Sum ner as to the expenees of the Queen. Since he- Majesty had been in this country she had received at the rate of 35,0001. a year, and not a shilling more. Large advances had been spoken of: but the Hon. and Learned Member would tell the house, that he, at the time of her Majesty's first arrival in England, had had occasion to apply for an advance to her of 5,0001. and that that advance of aamol. bad been refused. It had been refused, though wanted for matters of absolute necessity ; and her Ma jesty had, for a time, been obliged to receive credit. Because, forsooth, some one had told him that her Majesty had not paid a certain bill, all the rest of the money which she had received, bad been disbursed in paying the Press, in bribery, and in dis seminating seditious and treasonable publications—(cheers)-- another demonstration that, with this lloneurabk Gentleman, accusation was tantamount to proof, and iinpeachmer.t to con viction—(ehec,s).—lle begged that he might not be misunder stood; but he dad enaintain that her Majesty was treated harshly and cruelly when a casual expression in an answer to an address was brought u? in array against her, and every ambiguous word was imputed to her as a mortal sin. Nobody could know so well as those who had been in habits of intercourse with her Majesty, what had been the nature and amount of her disbursements.— Nobody, during the continuance of the proceedings against her Majesty, cou ld so well as her legal advisers the sufferings under which she laboured. They had been compelled to break in upon her rest at all hours of the night (a titter arwrej :.ate $t the Minerterin/ Members), because there was no memory except her's towhich they could apply for information which was indis pensably necessary for them to have before they could proceed to the cross-examination of the witnesses produced against her. Wu her mind, too, he would ask, freed from all subjects likely to inflame it? or was it not Inflamed by a persecution which bad been carried on against her with unrelenting malice for four-and twenty years, which bad already subjected her to trials, and which was to end at last in that most odioui and unconstitutional of all measures a Bill of Pains and Penalties? He knew no person whose passions were so much under command as not to have felt sonic degree of irritation at such treatment ; and be would say that it was much better that such irritation should be expressed as her Majesty had expressed it at the moment, than pent up in silence In the breast, and brought forward at a future time for worse var. poses. When Gentlemen viewed her situation in this light, be trusted that not one of them would be found who could view it with any other feeling than that of sincere commiseration for her sufferings. He trusted that, instead of turning her answers to the Addresses into a matter of accusation against her, they would say—" Here is an Illustrious Lady, who, on appro:sdaing our shores, was flattered with a prospect of joy and ha but who, on reaching them, met with unmerited enmity persecution." All the hopes which she once bad to support her are now faded, fallen, and gone. Separated originally from her husband, without any person imputing the blame of that sepa ration to her; subjected to a persecution for twenty-five years, as unjust as it was cruet and unrelenting; brought by it to a trial of forty-five days' continuance, which ended in a result which, on every principle of the British Constitution, was tan tamount to au acquittal ;—surely, under such circumstances, her sufferings were not to be aggravated by petty personal insults, or rendered more acute by the deprivation of necessary pecuniary i resources ?—(Hear, /rear). Mr. HOLM' SUM= and Mr. Alderman Woon rose at the IMO time to address the Committee ; but the cries for the latter Oestiesson readdress the House being predominant, '. • Mr. Alderman' WOOD proceeded..-ate Ousted' thit there was not a single Member in the House, who would rashly give credit to the cheeses which the .Hon. Member for Surrey had so boldly urged against her Majesty, and all of which be (Mr. Wood) asserted to be destitute of foundationi—(o4ers). He called upon that lion. Member to come forward, and to men tion any one bill of her Majesty's that'was unpaid—(Loud erica THURSDAY, FlililtUAßY e " hear"). The lion. member had stated that none f her 1 , 189.1 . In the House of Commons, last [li g h t received bills were paid, and that the money which she bad received to pay them had been expended in promoting the most after had been " s3l Losers took occasion to ask Mr. Fa us, whether 6 „ I wicked purposes. Now, if the House were to call for an ac- time occupied in receivin g p ct i t i om, signed his office of a Master in Chancery in Irelnicaer count of every farthing expended by her Majesty. he would un dettake to say, that they would fiod it expended in suck a man elected Member for Dublin? to which Mr. Etus ner as would give universal satiafactiato.a(Checrs). The bills of et lei all her tradesmen were paid monthly—(Loud cries of " hear, hear"). It was true that such had not been the case home- the negative; on which Dr. Lusonaterox gave notic e , the 21st of this month, he should move an Addrms to g a diately ater her arrival. Te of herjourney had made bee f in want of money ; l and k er n first quarte r 's allowance was in great part consumed in defraying them — (Hea r, hea r ). As the Hon. Member was so much in the secret of her Ma- for his removal from office. The business of the Qurim's maintenance was then a rei jesty's expenditure---(amr, hear, hcor)—he must know that she 'before the House, by a motion from Lord Casrctasa s a had not received a farthing of her allowance for the last quarter; teed to the Order of the Day on that questi on . M r is but that, notwithstanding, she had discharged every claim out - delivered a Messer front her ALAJESTY, slathigZ7 standing against her —( hear, hear)—by means of the assistance 's sensible of his alasesre condescension i n reconunetiat: afforded her by a Banker. The lion. Member, he expected, provision for her establishment, she could not acted, is would not be prepared to prove the charges which he had exhi - arrangement while her name continued excluded fro m ell bited against her Majesty; but if he could state one single bill . turgy. Mr. %Veneers contended that th., way i n that was unpaid, it was now his duty to do so— (Hear , heai.„ irons ters were ccaiducting themselves was insultin g to h er a k , aft rides of the House). The lion . Member had stated that he , and that nci measure of this kind should b e agree d t o w' was very anxious to be a peace-maker, but he (Aid. Wood) ldt I ten had accounted for their corduct : h,:, thet t f ore it to the House to decide how far his present conduct was calcu- the Order of the Day. Lord Casetneeaou laced to make him so—(Cheers). He should nut have intruded • Q u e e n and her part.z.tes a design to subvert the noa s a on the attention of the House, had he not thought it necessa r y This expression e x cited ver y serious agitation. It was i t to inform the House that there was not the smallest particle of up with a charge upon the Oppoation of being actua te .]T'a 4 truth in the charges just preferred against her Majesty - (Cheers.) avidity for place and power , and the result was a 5...tr%,.... 11 Mr. 140L1111a SUMNER informed the House that the of clamour and vociferation, rarely witnessed in the charges which he had urged against her Majesty rested upon Commons. At length the Committee was gone into, ac s a n ,' mere hearsay— ( Lord cries of hear, accomp wt,' anied with 'gm/no CASTLEREACII moved that the sum of ,EataoCo be arao, a — ',. strprisefrom the Offl o sition b a d h ear d t h em p re tty prov i s i on f or t h e Quests. Mr. STS:AItt WO:l7Ln' generally rumoured—(Chan continued).—As the worthy Al. larg e a provision, considering the reprehensible euila utta i2 derman was not an accredited agent of her Majesty, he would (ammo, in his judgmeta, but d. dined moving an & awl '" continue to maintain the charges which he had made against Mr. H. Sumxra, however, did that which the Il ea k a lik " z a his (Alderman Wood's) unsupported assertions.—(Hearfroalthe Yorkehire d-clined, and moved that the Provision f or Let )1, Ainisteriai Benches.) .11ATY should be limited to .110,0e0 per annum. After ea Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the language used by the debate, the question was put, very few Members bat & a a Honourable %temlser for Surrey was the occasion of his ad- House. Mr. Si:INEIS'S Amendment was net...aimed ad s ; dressing the House again that evening. The lion Member had division, and Lord CAS7LtittrAOU'S proposition agreedta objected to the worthy Alderman's explanation, , because be was not an accredited agent of her Majesty. This was the usual trick with Gentlemen on the Ministerial side of the House. They [shed of her Majesty as if she were an independent Sovereign, not as if she were only like themselves,a mere subject. They looked upon her legal advisers as responsible for her conduct. Now he would inform them, as he had had occasion to inform them before, that her Majesty was responsible for her own eon duct—(//ear).—She had, it was true,, her legal advisers ; and he and his Honourable Colleague, as to matters of law, were, if he might use a figure of speech, her responsible alinisters--(Hear).— So much for responsible advisers and accredited agents. No thing, in his opinion, could be more correct than the manner in which the worthy Alderman had just come forward. As for himself, though he had been in situations where he was likely to hear of such rumours as had been adopted as facts by the lion. Member for Surrey, be must say that he had never heard of them from anything like creditable authority until the pre sent evening. The worthy Alder Man asserted that there was no truth in them, and he, for one, believed his assertion— (Hear, hear). As to thelaw expenses, of which it might be expected he should know something, he would merely say that they were submitted to as strict an audit as any other spe cies of public accounts. The sums to defray them were issiied by the Treasury, and the person who received was deemed ac countable for them. The sum as already issued to meet these expenses was 50,0001. and he would say that it would fall short to cover them. If the Honourable Gentleman should think that they were too much, he could only say that her Majesty regretted as much as he could the absolute necessity there was for incurring them. Lord Liverpool had, however, confessed, either in the House of Lords or in private conference with him self—he forgot which—that a refusal of the specification of the witnesses, and the charges to be brought against her Majesty, bad necessarily entailed upon her greater expenses than would fall upon the opposite side—(Hear.) Mr. H. SUAIN ER repeated his belief in his former charges. Mr. Alderman W 001) did not wish that the Hon. Member for Surrey would give him credit, but he trusted that the House would give him credit, when he informed theist that the ac counts were shewn to him every mouth by the steward, in or der that he might see that no articles were charged extrava gantly to her Majesty. Every article, down to the very coals in the house, was paid for monthly ; the furniture which her Majesty bought at the Duke of Kent's sale was paid for ; and if the (lon. Member would bring down to the House any bill which was unpaid by her Majesty, he would uudertake to sea it paid to-mot row—(lkon) Lord NUGENT said, that ever since he had the honour of a seat in that House, it had been considered a put of its courtesy that when any Gentleman stated a circumstance as a fact within his own personal knowledge, he should be flee fawn any positive contradiction—(hear) --especially on such loose grounds as those assumed by the Honourable Member fee Surrey. Whether that Ilonourable Member would have feeling sufficient to make an apology to the worthy Alderman he did not know ; but he thought that an apology was due,if not to the worthy Alderman, at least to the House, whose forms he had so grossly transgressed.—(Cheers.) Mr. ii. SUMNER stated, that if the worthy Alderman had made a declaration regarding what had fallen . within his own knowledge, he should have given implicit credence to him. But it appeared that the steward had merely shewn the books to birn, and the books only contained an account of what was paid. The worthy Alderman, therefore, could not possibly know how much remained unpaid. Mr. S. WORTLEY expressed his regret that the Honour able Member far Surrey had brought forward such charges as he had done on no better authority than mere rumour. lie had obtained all that he had wished in a manifestation of the feelings of the House, and, if called upon to divide, should certainly di. vide in favour of the larger sum. THE EVENING STAR: LONDON. A Jamaica MAil, which arrived this forenoon,. brought the important intelligence of the erpedi under Lord COM:I.INC having taken Lima, af t a tremendous re,istance. The regolar Itorip s Lima amounted to about 10,000 men, all well al . . fccted to the Royal cause, and cleellently in every respect. Four of Lord COCnu.iaeamnb were sunk in the engagement. No other patticalan are given, nor is it stated whether the place a taken by storm or surrendered on capitulation. After the taking of Pisco, the Viceroy of Peru(lbs JOAQUIN! PEzur.LA) had sent a flag of truce to Gem. ral Sr. 3tawrix, requesting a conference, by De ft . ties, to see if their differences could be adjusted wit& out having recourse to arms.. To this Celina] St. MARTIN consented, and on the 2:;th September armistice was agreed on, and Deputies for a conference appa l l. The conference hued until the lit October, when the nt ra i, separated without having come to auy arrangement, sada at 4th hostilities were recommenced by General Sr. MAIM. The attack on Pisco appears to have been made with a reed drawing off a part of the Royal force from Lima ; for km* atel7 after the breaking of the Armistice. General SAN 314 Ca re-embarked his troops, and proceeded by sea, with all luritos Lima, the grand object of the expedition. The town of Guayaquil had, of its own accord, &sheik self in Amour of the Independent cause, on the 7th of Octet; and Panama, encouraged by the success of Lord Coeusara,ki spontaneously followed its example. We lament to learn from these Papers, that bis Grier to Duke of Kurcrtesren, Governor of Jamaica, has met *dr very alarmidg accident. When taking his usual mornirokiv, he was thrown out of his eurricle, and hie skull severely flactini. The first Bulletin of his Avsicians states that " the =Alai of a most formidable nature, but the symptoms bin soli. therto been unfavourable;" and the last, that " the warm proceed favourably." • The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon. Ilty are filled with declarations of the alarm and indignation via which the Gunpowder Plot to destroy his 3lajesty aria tit Royal Family, had ffiled the hearts of all faithful PaGiz i and with the details of a great deal of official bustling, afp rently to little purpose, to discover the diabolical incendatia The Journal de Paris says, in a postscript, that a repot va current on Sunday evening, but for the truth of which itid not pledge itself, that the" enquiries made by the Nagistnat had been followed with the arrest of three or four unlade!' employed at different labours in the interior of the thaws! that there is every reason to hope that their examination] lead to the discovery of the guilty." The band which contained the powder was encireledwittils hoops, and from the diameter of some of these which hanks collected, it is calculated that the quantity of powder is tbet* rel may have been from five to six pounds. The Ks is I! scribed as treating the matter very gaily. When Mama,' her first alarm, ran to the Kiwi, he spoke to her in the ad assuring manner, and added, smiling—" Tell my aka gq° daily, that it was aot me who set Sre to the petard!" It is scarcely necessary to add, that an occasion so deassalzl renewed proofs of loyalty and attachment, has not been Gm looked by the friends of the Monarchy. The calls of conger' lation at the Thuilleries have ever since been incessant. Mr. WESTERN wished to know why this provision should not he m.sde out of the Civil List, instead of being made an ad ditional burden on the people ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the Treasury had no more power of converting the Civil List front the purposes to which it was appropriated than they had of convert-I ing to other uses any Parliamentary grant. Mr. LEN NA RD did not wish to curtail the Crown of any of that splendour which was so dear to the present possessor of it, but he might be allowed to regret that the Country should. be called on to boar fresh burdens,in order to relieve the Crown from the charge which had always belonged to it—the charge of supporting the QueenConsort—(Hear, Gear).—lle knew that the funds of the Civil List were appropriated by Act of Parlia ment ; but the Crown was in possession of the Revenues of the Duchy cf Cornwall, of the 4i per Cents. of the Droits of Ad miralty; and it would have been more consistent with those large professions of economy, so often heard front Ministers at the beginning of the Sessions of Parliament, if they had pro posed applying some of these sources of Revenue to the support of the Queen; or at least if they had given up the Droits to the use of the Public. Private letters which we have received, say, that in tf tain circles of Paris a strange degree of incredulity prevails d the subject of this plot. They say, the Kiwi would not urea so much as a matter of joke, if it were not really a good me. must be allowed, indeed, to be a curious fact, as the Meru. Cann of this morning observes , µ that a several conspiracies. Ida them by the way of explosion, which have been lately discovered at Paris, in no one, so far as the particulars have been aßane 4 to be disclosed, have the means been adequate to any end arc i it might be supposed the conspirators had in view." COURT OF KING'S BENCH—(THIS DAY.) THE KIND V. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. At 10 o'clock the CUIEF Juswcx took his seat, acconTaeal by Mr. Justice BAILEY and Mr. Justice Fr 5..... At the ass moment Sir FILANCIS Buanrrx entered, accompanied by 5g ROBERT WILYON, Mr. 1101HOUEE, and another Gentleman. The motion respecting Sir FRANCIS stood over until the it r rival of Mr. Justice Hoaaors, which was not until a guars: before 12 o'clock. As soon as that Learned Judge had taken his seat, The ArroaxEr-Glateux rose, and prayed for the J• 3 404 of the Court upon Sir Francis Burdett. Mr. Senuarr then rose, and said, he was instnicttda. the Honourable and Distinguished Defendant in this lsti to make a Motion in Arrest of Judgment ; but be bad_ _ fi sn oass' tare to make to his Learned Friend (the Attorney- 606 ' s which, if acceded to, would render his Motion at plO O4 necessary, and not interfere with the ultimate ends of jrnio"; His application to hii Learned Friend was, that, as a dift o4 .,, %Onion upon a part of this Cue existed upon the &Debi necessarily opened a question for another Tribunal, be • sa,, now consent to a Special Verdict, leaving the point at issue a part of the Court open for an ulterior hearing elsewhere. The Arroa.viv-Guraux in reply , rejected this niVlis sti° , l ; • His duty, from which he would not shrink, called upon bias pray Judgment without further delay. Mr. Scausrr then proceeded to make his Motion in Art of Judgment. The Learned Counsel's argument will 10' whole of the day. Yesterday the Arroaxxv-GuEau. shelved Cause a g abig Z Rule obtained last Term by Messrs. Festous, Caa s. Wooten, and others, for a new Tri4l. Mr. DVIIIiN ad the Court at considerable length in support of the liuk,oa_s; the conclusion of his argument, the Jeorms considered 71 late to proceed further, and ordered the Cause to cense 0 0 8 1 1. Des Monday. After a few observations from Mr. W. SMITH, Mr. and Sir G. 'lac, Mr. Baocorx put Mr. Sumner's Amendment to the vote, which was negatived without a division. The ori ginal proposition was then agreed to unanimously. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be presented tcz-morrow.—Adjourned at a quarter before two. - THE FUNDS. PRICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Bank Stock 2273 228-3 per Cent. Reduced 72i 723 3 per Cent. Cons. 71e j 3-33 per Cent. 811 4 per Cent. 893 3-5 per Cent. Navy 1033 3 3 Long Annuities 18 9-16 3—lmperial 3 per Cent. 703 India Bonds 40s. 41s. prc.—Exchequer Bills 61. Bs. ss. pre. Oranium 4; pre.—Cons. for Account 713 72. Posramogrra 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived, Le Caroline, SOUPAZT, fwm Faraourst, Jaw. 29.—Arrived the Lady Louisa packet with a mail from Jamaica—sailed the 22d of December, and from Crooked Island the 30th. The Sandwich arrived at Jamaica the 11th of December; also arrived the Orient, Brown,from London to St. Thomas's. The ship Dry Harbour lanter, Strong, was lost coming out of Dry Harbour, with a full cargo of Jamaica produce ; crew and small part of the cargo saved. The master came pa seuger in the Lady Louisa. . The Estrella, Yaw, trotn the Algarves to Genoa, is lost uear Tarifa. 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