Star. — London, England, 1822-06-26 00:00:00

.1 (Mr. Peel) at best but a speech in mitigatiob of pu nishment, founded' on his good intentions. But he thought the Lord Advocate had set an example highly injurious, he had given encouragement to the circulation of a paper which contained a series of abo minable paragraphs, the tendency of which was to barbarize all our political diseuenons--( Hear, hear). The Right Hon. Gentleman hid asked, what would be the fate of an official man who* should be obliged to read all the paragraphs of a Newspaper? I.le would say, whether official or not, he should be sorry to have to read them, having so little time; but if he had subscribed money secretly, he should have thought it hisYuty to have looked a little at the paragraphs (even as a private man) once in eight months; but in' the case of the Public Prosecutor of Scotland; who had suffered a battery which he had assisted, uncon-i sciously he would say, to erect, to be playing con tinually against the character of every man and woman at all suspected of being disagreeable to any member of his Majesty's Government, was a gross in stance of misconduct in a public officer, and a case which loudly called for Parliamentary inquiry (Hear). The inquiry which was called for implied no censure on the conduct of the Learned Lord; it might be that the result of it might be a vote of thanks to the Learned Lord, and sincerely did he hope it would terminate in a manner the most agreeable to him whatever the decision of the House might be, it would not'be ditable to the Learned Lord to be delivered from the weight of such a charge .by a refusal to inquire— (Hear, Hcar).—The Right Hon. Gentleman had said, that from the notice the case of Borthwick •was 'one which the House was not prepared to enter upon.— lie (Sir James Mackintosh) hardly thought more distinct notice necessary, since there had not been a.iy case in Scotland, from the time ef-the Rebel lion in 1745, which had excited more universal `in terest; after an imprisonment of 70 days, charged with a capital felony, he is set at liberty—(Hear).- 1 he proceeding by the Public Prosecutor against one the partners of a Paper which he had supported; but which of them? Why, he who betrays the ,‘ secrets of the prison house"—he who had impeached his accomplices--who could say that such a case was' not included in the notice? And he would put it to the House, whether it was not more for the interest of pulic justice that the House should inquire, than to pass it over—whether they ought not to put a stop to the tide of private slander, or risk, by their silence, the perpetuation of that detestable system ?—(Hear)., • The Mai quis cf . LONDONDERRY expressed al hope that the House would allow him to state his .te.,v of the subject, and he promised to keep closer to the argument than the Hon. and Learned Gentle man had done. The lion. Gentleman had called upon the House to form a Committee of Inquiry, upon three heads: the first related to the Clyderdak Journal and the Beacon; the second was the trans action in which Sir Alexander Boswell seas concerned; the third head the Hon. Member did not pledge him-, self to be able to prove. It might be asked why this motion was made at a period of the Session when it was impossible to enter upon inquiry? The fact was, the. Hon. and Learned Gentleman had not come for ward in time, and his whole object must be defeated. Viltat were the grounds on which he had chosen to call for inqitir) ? The House would not go into in quiry to see what might come out with respect to the. Correspondent, because the Lord Advocate had said lit knew nothing of it. The Hon. and Learned Gen tleman had stated that he did not want to condemn the Lord Advocate, bat to promote inquiry. It was no small punishment to put an individual under the examination of a Committee of that House, and more especially when the individual was already before a tribunal of the country. After all, the Lord Advo elite was not implicated in the transaction with respect to Sir A. Boswell beyond suspicion. It was not sug gested that the Lord Advocate ought to have taken any legal steps in his official situation against these jaurnah. There was no seditious libel, which was the only one the Lord Advocate was legally, capable of prosecuting—(Hear).—The law was open to in dividuals to obtain redress, and there was not an instance of the power of the Lord Advocate having been denied where it was applied for—(Hear, hear). The Noble Marquis had been told of libels in the Beacon and Cldesdak Journal, but had never seen the alleged libels. He was, with respect to any know ledge on that subject, a oomplete s.ecvt of white paper —(A laugh)—lt was a little too much to ask the -House to criminate . the Lord Advocate, without having seen one word .of the libels. The Hon. Gen tleman ought to have laid on the table all the Jour nals containing the calumny. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman bad levelled the thunderbolts of his elo quence at the Journals in question. He had not seen •them, but whatever their colour might be, the Lord Advocate was certainly not responsible for what ap peared in these Papers. He understood the elides dee Journal, like the Morning Chronicle, which the Hon. and. Learned Member had often praised, was a Paper of fair character. What the character of the Sentinel was he did not know ; but it was too much to make the Lord Advocate responsible for what it contained. The Beacon.did not always liar the character which the Honourable . Member had given • it. -Tile stupidity of that Journal was at one time • particularly remarkable. His Learned Friend de -flied all calumny in those Papers, as far as he could. .Ile was induced, when the country was in a bad state in consequence of the effects of the Radical Press, to subscribe for a Loyal Paper, which was to oppose argument to argument. To ight, therefore, the game of the Press and correct libels, rasher than punish by prosecution. If the Paper turned out bad, was the Lord Advocate to be responsible? If every one in a public situation was to be called on to answer charges of this kind, no man could be safe--(Hear)—lnq uiry would answer no purpose but to throw suspicion and calumny oo the Lord Advocate. The Noble filar ix! hat no difficulty in deciding with his Right Friend, that- the Lord Advocate's charmer 'amid without reproach—(Hears hear). It woad have base discreet if the Lord Advocate bad kept' himself from the Pa —1 hear)—kit a we was thing which att to his character. As a man lawyer, none could stand higher. In case the. motion had applied to a political opponent, the Noble alas could lay his band on his heart, as an honest and say be would not have supported it.—(Hear.) LOCKHART agreed with the Noble Lord in dank.* nothing appeared • which touched • the character of the Learned Lord at a Gentleman or a man, bet whew Its saws of nor as a cunsuiudonal lawyer ' to that be awl aims— . . more free ft nothin and s rnotiot Marti; man, Mr.; that at Learitei to add, • • . • - , • . • • ilea} Tie thee& fat the interests of justice so inquiry was ' 711 A BERCROMBY briely replied. Irk sitid that he felt the less inclined to trespass further on the isdiskonoe of the Howe, because no attempt had been made to coalmen the fact and argument upon which his motion was founded. As to the time that would be occupied by the Committee, be begged to say that it would socn be disposed of, as he was seedy wide his wit nesses to proceed before the Committee to4norrow—(Hear).— In sit days the whole investigation might be concluded; but a great and important public inquiry was not to be evaded by a plea of inconvenience as retarded time. The public prosecutor of &admit had lent his money, countenance, and support, in favour of publications that were libellous, and dangerous to the peace and civil liberties of the people—publieations which had been as readildisavowed on the other side as they had been 'ensured en h is side. His own defenders on the ether side did not attempt to deny•or to justify. They admitted that he had been guilty of the indiscretions laid to his charge, but said his intention was good, and this was all the defence they offered for this pernicious conduct in the public prosecutor of Scotland.— (Ibar).—lf the House did not go into inquiry upon such a case it would not, in his opinion, do its duty. The House then divided, when the numbers were:— For the Motion - 9.5 Against it - - 120 Majority against the Motion - —25 POLICE,. ----- The Honk went into a Committee on the Police Act, when Mr. Secretary Pan. proposed several Resolutions, which were agreed to, and the Report, ordered to be received this day. The other Orders of tin Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at pia & Clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Slatket opened this morning at 81 j, but in consequence of mune Stock being brought to market, they lowered to 81a I for the Account, at which price they remain up to this hour.— Reduced 80a. STOCK K.XCIIAIsTGE—ONE O'CLOCK. There has been much business done within the last hour, and, owing to a large quantity of Stock being thrown upon the Mar ket, Consols have declined to 811 a. Ike favourable news from China has caused a rise of five per cent. in East India Stock. The whole of the Foreign Stocks are heavy. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 80 5 /. y s 3 1 4 per Cents. 91 1 / 4 -4 per Cents. 93 1 / 4 98 4 per Cent. New Anns. 98 34 t i fi Bank Long Anns. '2O 7.16 i/ 2 5/. 7.16 Imperial 3 per Cents. 79 3 / 4 India Bonds 555. Vs. • Etcbeq. Bills of I:1,000. Is. pre. par, Ss. pre. Do. Small ss. Ss. pr.—Do. Commercial, Su dis. Consols for Acct. 81 ys 1 / 2 5/.. Mr. Sim, Purser of the Hon. East India Company's ship itep;:isc, arrived in town this morning, from Lymington, where he landed yesterday evening.— The Repulse left China on the Bth of February. Be fore she sailed the Chinese Government had sent a Mandarine on board the TO?AZC to see the men that had been wounded in the affray at Linton, from which an amicable adjustment of the dispute was anticipated. The cor.fide.nce that this circumstance has inspired on 'Cbange, has caused an advance of Five per Cent. on India Stock. Such an exposure of the Government Press of Scot land, such an unmasking of the hired libellers, and traducers of personal character who have, for the last eighteen months, deluged that part of the United Kingdom with the most foul and atrocious attacks on all who differed with them in opinion, was made last night in the House of Commons, as must make every man of common sense and common honesty, view it with disgust and indignation. It had been long known that the first Law Officer of the Crown—the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND, had been a party to a bond for supporting one of the most libelous News papers that ever was commenced—the Beacon; and it now appears that he lent his name and his influence to its precursor in the career of infamy, the Cyies dale Journal, since called the Glasgow Sentinel.— It was this Journal, which has not changed its cha racter, though it has changed its name, that con tained the wanton and unprovoked libels which led to the late fatal duel ; and which the LORD JUSTICE CLERK, in the trial of Mr. STUART, branded as dis graccialy licentious! It was this Journal, which was set on foot by a set of persons, many of whom are connected with the Law Officers of the Crown, and which, when it was on the point of expiring, was recommended by the LORD ADVOCATE, " on the ex perience already had of it," to the patronage of such Gentlemen as had not already given it their support. Had this been the act of an ordinary individual, un connected with Government or with place, how much . we might have regretted that any person assuming the rank and character of a Gentleman, should lend his supio.t to an avowedly libellous publication, yet it would not have been matter of public concern. But it was the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND, the public prosecutor, whose duty it was to take cogni sance of all libels, that lent his influence and his name to this publication : not previous to its commence ment,—not before its character or principles were known—but when it had stood forth in all its defor mity, and was actually on the point of expiring for want of support: it was then .that the LORD Avvo- CATS raised it up by his influence, and gave it new vigour to proceed in its disgraceful career. What that influence is, we may judge from the single cir• cumstance, that he has the patronage of about eighty places, which he can distribute among the favoured of some 150 or 200 practitioners. Well might Mr. ASBECIIOII3Y, who brought his Lordship's conduct last night before the House, say, if the Loan An. VOCATE " exerted such inflame in a bad direction, what a curse did he not thereby inflict on the coun try ! and if he gave it to the Press for the encourage. went of calumny and slander, he could not conceive a greater misfortune or a heavier reproach Ia the affair of the Clydesdale Journal, we have seen that though the LORD ADVOCATR gave it lus support when it otherwise must have sunk, yet it does not appear that he had any share in the corn mencement: This, however, was not the case with its twin brother in iniquity, the Beacon, the bond for the support of which was honoured with the following goodly names, "all honourable ram," and all holding official situations, to wit : Sir Witue.x Rar e Lord Advocate; Mr. Wicrinsaaumn, Soli citor-General; Mr. Foams, Advocate and Sheriff's Depute for Perth, a judicial situation; Mr. J. Horn, Deputy under the Lord Advocate; Sir %Wass Scram Clerk of the Peace and Sheriff's Depute ; Mr. H. Damson% Advocate and Deputy under the Lord Advocate; the Right Hon. R. Astaurnsov, also holding a high official situation. • This was not an ordinary bond, but a bond of cre-' dit, which legally constituted those who signed it as Proprietors. But it may be thought that the parties never contemplated the libellous character of the Paper; but be this as it may, they kept in unholy compact together until their names were exposed, and that they were so beset with personal responsi bility, and pressed by the urgent claims of those who had been libelled, that they were compelled to aban don the Paper, which scarcely survived the discovery of the names of its Pmprieters. It is true that the LORD ADVOCATE, in the memorable correspondence *which ensued between him and Mr. STUART on the subject, disclaimed all knowledge of attack on pri vate character; but it is also true that his Lordship knew the character of the alidesdale Journal be fore be gave it his support; that he knew the Beacon was to be, and was, similarly conducted; and that he never disavowed it, until personally called upon to answer for his conduct. It is also true that he, the first Law Officer of the Crown, who had the Beacon completely in his power, and could have ex tinguished it whenever he pliased, never took any steps to put down the libellous - system of the &aeon ; but, on the contrary, that his. Lordship's patronage created and kept it alive ; that. be had given it his money and his countenance, under which it flourished; ani that it ceased only when the nale'of its patron. was exposed. The object of Mr. AssicaoNtav's motion, which was supported by facts the most indisputable, and arguments the most irrefragable, 'was for an inquiry into the conduct of the LORD ADVOCATE and the other Law Officers of the Crown in Scotland, re specting the public Press. The Loan ADVOCATE defended himself, no doubt, in the best way he could, and as we do not wish to weaken that defence by any remarks, but to let his Lordship have the full benefit of-all that it can do for him, we shall merely refer our Readers to it in our report of this memorable debate. Indeed we would only require any one of the speeches in the House last night, either for or against the Loan ADVOCATE, to prove that a more disgraceful exercise of official influence was never made than in the recent support of the Government Press of Scotland, which, to use the forcible language of Sir JAMES MACK INTOSII, the Public Prosecutor had suffered as " a battery to play unceasingly for six months against every man and every woman whose views did not precisely co incide with the Government." The French Papers of Sunday have been received. They confirm the accounts received direct from Con stantinople, of the atrocities committed in that capi tal on the Greek hostages, ten of whose lives had been guaranteed by Lord STRANGFORD. Private letters from the Turkish capital detail this horrible transaction, which has scarcely a parallel in history, and which we should almost doubt if related as an occurrence of the savage ages. This sanguinary deed is nothing else than the decd. pitation, by the Government of the Porte, of 72 Greek merchants, some of them the most respectable in the Levant, and all of them of consequence among theii countrymen—without alleged crime—m ith out the form of trial—without an insinuation of misconduct—but merely because out of compassion for their brethren in the Isle of Scio, they offered themselves as hostages for their good behaviour, and interposed between them and the - Turkish cimeter.— The islanders, driven at length to revolt, by the in tolerable cruelties and humiliations to which they were subjected, have been massacred and extermi nated ; and the barbarous despot, not satisfied with the blood and torture of the principles who rebelled, has sacrificed, " at one fell swoop," likewise, their generous, unoffending securities. Letters from Constantinople state, that four thou sand Asiatic troops 'had arrived therefrom Moldavia and Wallachia; but that the Turkish Government, immediately after their arrival, declared publicly that they would not evacuate any of the Principalities, and messengers were immediately dispatched with orders to prevent any further evacuation. • New York Papers to the 24th of May reached us this morning. Accounts from La Guira.aird Caraccas to the 21st April state, that General MORALES had been surprised by three divisions of the Patriot Army, and his return to Porto Bello being cut off, there was little doubt of his speeedy capture. Yesterday, the Duke of YORK held a Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards, as Commander-in-Chief, which was attended hy— mn Marquis of Huh, Marquis Cosyogham, Lord Elgin, Lord William Thyme' Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingale , Liaistanant-General Thomas, Lientanant.Gefieral Boavllk, Lisa tenant-General Browne, ands number of others. Saturday his Majesty's Letters Patent were received at Dub in Coedit appeintiog the R ht Hon. lard Joan Gutzon Ds La lads. and Lard and Lard of Dublin. al to Ireland ;be Lord 1 s . cnt Atonosh, of l the Wit Ire. I. Wawa Moon, Lord Bishop of Raphoe, to hi Arukhiship of Dublin ; tad the Very arr. Archdeacon Bssaarr, Chaplain to his Excellaney tint Marquis Warp nem, to be Lard Mho? of Rsphoes • tifE ARM F. • Orders have been issued by the Lone TALTTIPIAT t that the Yeonsanerof the North be forthwith dilcutnitiukA fro serving on peetnietsent duty. Commission in the 9d Somerset Regiment of Militia, sighed b y the Lord Lieutenant of the County tof Somerset. Honourable Frederick Xallmarke to be Insign. Commissionsin the Penishire Yeomanry Cavalry, sigma ty the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth. Ueutenant John Rashes lobe Captain, vice Sharp, resign e d ; Cornet John Grant to be Lieutenmt, vice Belbhes, promeed Lawience Cr sigie, Gent. to be Cornet, vice' rant, promoted ; Witliam Maleom,,M.D. to be Surgeon. Commissions in the West Rent Regiment of Yeomanry Ca. 'dry, signed by thi Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kew, Tunbridge Troop—Lieutenant George Charles Earl of B red _ Dock to be Captain, vice Not:silk, resigned; Willem, L atb bard. Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice the Earl of iireckno c k. pranoted. \ o AUL INTELLIGENCE' FROM THZ AGINT TO LLOYD'S, AT LT181)107011. " immune* Juxe 25.—The Purser of the Monourable Company's ship Repulse, Paimasox, landed here this afternom from China—left oth February last, on which day his Majesty's ship Torus also sailed. The Chinese Government had sett a Mandarins on board the Torn; to see the men who were wounded, and it was judged lions this circumstance that the late differences would soon be amicably settled. The Cor:- pany's ship Kent had about two-thirds of her loading on bnat‘t, and would sail as soon as a conuntualcation should be recelvcd front Pekin." The East-India Company's outward•bound skip Regent p..t into Funchall on the 12th May, and was wapected toproceed es her voyage on the 15th. Ptruovisr, Jowa24.—Wind E.—Arrived the Delight, DLArt, and Mars, FLIMISCI. from Teneriffe ; and Twelve Brothers, from Dram to Fowey. Passed up Channel, the Orient, Wan. us, from Bengal to London. Fatuourn, Juae 124.—Wind W.—Arrived the Urania, Le Cocr, from Rotterdam for Dublin; and Mr_ncheiw packs., Sten:worms, from America, sailed from New York the lath of 'hlay. • The Princess Elizabeth packet arrived at New York the 23d of April, and Fox packet at Halifax the 20th May, rad sailed the 25th for New York. L'A frkaine Frtneh frigate, ti 44 guns, was lost in a fog 16th May, on Sable Island,and twelve of the crew drowned: she was from 'Martinique, to St. Pierre. Poursmoutu, Jowl 41.—Wind W. S. W.--Riled, his Dlzievo:s ship TILIXUNZ. for Chatham; and ittlyal Raton, I%.urzEir, Archangel. Dear., Jews 421—Wind 9.W.—Came down front the Ei7c: last night, the Charles, SALIM, for Rouen ; Fanny, Goma, fcz Charente ; Arethusa, Plait°, for Virginia, and ,ailed this ni,r ing with the rest of the outward-bonr.d. Arriled and sailed the River, the Eliza, WARD, from Calcutta ; William too, Sacttanz, front St. Kitt's ; Lavinia, Stars, from Ikladc!?:,; Nymph, liurcuelsom, from Tarragona; an .1 Faiza, ri FayaL Caine down from the River this mortrizg, Cue EcTia. Sovrozwu yacht, and remains. PREROGATIVE• COURT-THIg OLIVE, SOI-DISANT PRINCESS OP CUMEERLArD. JUDGMENT. DC EWE GOODS Or SILS LATE MAJESTY ZINO OTOT.OO TOY -r.3.1%. The Court this morning was crowded to exeess, in consec:ence of this being tbeappcinted day by the Learned Judge, Sir Jona neaten., fcr delivering his nation en the argument s addace.l in the suit of OLIVE, PEINCESS or Cirmaintasn, calling on ha present MAJESTY for £15,0003 said to be willed be: by hit irc most gracious Mammy. Sir Join; NICHOL began by stating the allegations which had been made by the learned advocates for the applicant, and read the prayer which has so frequently been before the pub@:. Lie then made scone allusions to the argnmcnts ad .ticed ny the advocates of the person seeking the laterf..rence of the Coen upon her affidavit, when she swore that, Etas. of WAAVH.T did, about the menth of 31ay,181 5, send to her residence at Ne. 74, Seymour-pLce, a cert?in pared various dot a. ments, amongst them the will in question, the th.lre of Kuse that time being present. The learned Jukit7e commented at rut length on this letter, and deolared it to be a subject of extrer.: delicacy, and went on to shew that no Kiso had made a win since Henry IV. and on that his executors had refused to act, and Henry V. took the estate by appraisement. The only Win ever lodged in that Court was that of Henry the Bth, and that was only a copy, on which probate w:.s no: granted.. By the Vol's of Parliament, of the 24th Henry the Bth, the reigning Sovereign was considered the supreme Ooee.-- nor of all, and the head of the Church ; and it has been since held, a King could not constitutionally do wrong, think wrong, or act with injustice! The question, he said, before the Court wac, .whether it had jurisdiction over the reining Sovereignty ? It was in law considered an analogy, he could not be a defendant, neither could he appear in any other Court. 'fhe Leanied Jul* concluded by stating, that it did not come within the cogniee'ce of that Court; and without prejudice to what might take elsewhere, he felt himself bound to resist the appL.ltion. The claim is now once again set at rest. EXECUTION. This morning an immense concourse of persons ast•torbled in the Old Bailey, to witness the sentence of the law carried into *Sect upon Thomas Naunkier, aged 17, and kited en;;;Je,f, aged 19, for attacking a gentleman named Broailha , A, hr rbe Kingsland Road, maltreating and robbing him of Lis watch And some money ; and John Lomas, aged CO, for uttering forzed X. 3 notes, purporting to be of the Governor and Con.pany of t`.e Bank of England. There was a very considerable degree cf flagrancy attached to the conduct of this ,young man, he hi:. ivg went to a family labouring under the extrcmest distr:ss, and, representing himself as having keen sent with a donation of t'2, tendered a forged £lO note to pay that sum, recei% ed the difference, eight sovereigns, and escaped. He was most suc:ess.. l in this inf amous traffic, and there were upwards of thirty charges against him, to the first three of which he pleaded guilty, ar.d of course was not tried on the others. His father held a s:•.:ra tion in the Bank, and he (the son) was educated at Chin. Church School, but so confined was his intellect, that when he left school he did not understand the common rules of ortho graphy. He appeared perfectly resigned to his fate, althot•gh we understand he had hopes of reprieve until within a very few hours of his execution. Crawley. although very young as he was, had been for a very considerable time the leader of a gang of street robbers, of which he was the most daring. At a quarter before eight o'clock this morning, the Sheriffs Messrs. Oa meals and Vs:otran; ar:ived at the jail, and after the culprits had received the Sacrament, they had their irons ore* off, and were pinioned: they then proceeded, neither of them uttering a syllable, from the Prees.room, accompanied by the Sheriffs and officers, in procession, to the scaffold, which Lomas ascended, and walked very composedly to the extreme end, tended by the Rev. Mr. COTTON, with whom, while the eve:- timer was performing his office, he joined most fervently in prayer. Neumhier next ascended tne platform, with a most fern Step, and looked about In every direction smiling; be being placed by the side of Lomas, the executioner performed his office ; and,while the Rev. Gentleman was attending to Crawley, Lomas turned round and spoke to Neumhier, shaking hands with him, and loudly calliaig to the Divine Throne for mercy. At a few minutes past eight o'clock. the preparaticni being complete, t!..e drop felt, and the wretched men, after a few struggles, were launched into eternity. Coax EICHANCI, Jura 26.- 7 A small quantity of fine Wheat was got off this morning, but we have scarcely any demand for the inferior qualities, of which description the stock on hand chiefly consists, and prices are nearly nominal. Vole money was asked for Barley, Beans, Peas, and Oats, and la. per quarter more was obtained ik a few instances, but the sales were far (ram brisk at that advance. DIED. • • Monday, J. Renter Blair, Esq. M. P. for the county of IS:r toe, after a few days illness. :11141)°N; Printed and published by Lavin. Kat, now place, Temple-Bat.