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• • 7W ANIA 4 7( ijiire, G 4 e ) i;) • 4 Zr e s , "61` dos : 4**/ ...ea .* pr . ,. "* aAY • a d6.6 .C,VA". r' i . ' •..: ~.~ .- • SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1821. vr.:- 10616. SEt EN-PIaNCI. . • OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, July 31, 1820. rE.Public are hereby informed, that Thirty wen PLATFS of the ORDNANCE SURVEY of BOAT BRITAIN, carried on under the superintendet.ee of yte Major-General WILLIAM . MUDGE, LL.D. F.R. ;v t no w complete, and that Impressions from them Safest the Ordnance Mai: Office, in the Tower of Lon -40 at William Faden s, Geographer to his Majesty, Agentto tbe Board of Ordnance, at Charing-Cross. These picas retain the Counties of Kent, Essex, Sussex, Hants, D ev on, and Cornwall, and portions of Somerset, s ';;;: p on b r oke, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Wilts, g g b , Middlesex, Suffolk, Hertford, anti Cambridge.— p, t colitaining nearly the whole of Pembrokeshire, and w oos of the adjacent Country, was published on the Ist 4 Aes „.t, 1819; and as the Work is still in progress, ac re:eg to the original design of giving a complete Map of Gr . B r i t ain, upon a Scale of One Inch to a Mile, the potat o*. of the future Parts will follow as fast as the nature of sch a W o rta will admit, without increasing its Annual expense. 6w i enar i writhing to procure a Map of the Country suriound bz t h e ir own habitat ions, ma y , b y a pp li cation to Mr. Baru, at thdrance Nbp Office, where an Index Map will be atom i ig Et Ill y sheets they please for that purpose. All let ters°. djaaahjtct addressed to Mr. Bares, under a cover to tyr S.O!WY st the Board of Ordnance, Pall-Mall, will be im- Wooly attended to. *Order of Ike Boon:, R. 11. CREW, Secretary. P ARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 2. In the Appeal Cause;" the East-India Company v. Knyaston," after hearing Counsel, the LORD CriAvcrasos affirmed the deci sion of the inferior Court. " Angers v. Montgomery." His LORDSHIP also, in this case, affirmed the decision of the Court below. In the remaining ease of " Dingwall r. Gardiner," the deci sion of the Court below was affirmed, with £lOO costs. The Annual Indemnity 13111 was read a third time, and passed.. Mr. MASON, from the India House, brought up certain Ac counts relative to the Trade between India and China. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a Petition from the Clergy of Colchester against the Roman Catholic Claims.—Or dered to lie on the table. The Earl of DONOUGH MORE presented Petitions from the Roman Catholics of four Parishes .in the City of Dublin, viz. St. Andrews's, St. George's, St. Mark's, and St. Anne':. praying for the removal of the disabilities under which they la boured. He then called their Lordships' recollection to the no tice be had given en a former day, for bringing forward a mo- tion respecting the Roman Catholics, on Thursday next; since that time, a circumstance had occurred in another place, which gave him reason to hope that the question would come before that House in a shape different from which he had at first in tended. Ile should therefore withdraw his notice fot the pre sent ; and it would depend on circumstances, whether be should bring it forward. Ee then moved that the order for summon ing their Lordships for Thursday next be discharged.—Ordered. Lord HOLLAND moved the second reading of the Bill for amending the Law of Treason in Ireland. lle observed, that he had at first conceived murder, in Ireland, amounted to High Treason; but on looking at the Statute-book, he found it was not so. The law was so formerly; but that law had been re pealed several years since. Tlds day was published, price 6s. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW: or, CRITICAL J088N.% 1.. No. LXVIII. Commas-1. Mitchell's Ari4tophanes.-2. Whitelaw's M ein of Doblia.-3. fkirwen's Observations on the State of Ire. 04.-4. Gamble's Views of Society in Ireland.-5. hater on ! w i d time .—.6. Quaker i oetry.-7. Transactions of the Hor ticultural Society df Loudon.—R. Nlademoisel:e de Tournon ; a hock Nor:l.-9. State of Self nee in England and France.— laJkley's Tour in Botany Bay.-11. liazlitt's Lectures on the Dtum-12. Marcian.Colonna. By Barry Cornwall.-13. Par bauntary Reform.—Quartetly I.:A of New Publications. Printed fur Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Levin. Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. Of whom may be had, aU the preceding Numbers. 4DkuthE6 SCOTT: • Yesterday evening, at half-past 'five o'clock, the kquest in this case was resumed. Moans Joseph Pettigrew, surgeon, was sworn aftd exa iierd.—Lives at Spring-gardens; bad no knowledge of the de lta until the day on which the occurrence happened; met linst'half-put seven on the evening alluded to; was requested ssisrd professional assistance, should such be requisite, by a find of Mr. Scott. Who was that friend?"—" Mr. Patt tore Having arrived at Chalk Farm, and reached nearly et top of the bill, he perceived some Gentlemen in the field be le him, and almost immediately afterwards pistols were die dried. In answer to a question from the Coroner, witness id, that he did not know any of the Gentlemen in the field kinr him, except Mr. Pattmore, nor should he know them es. Had you spoken to any of the Gentlemen previous to it irst discharge ?—I bad called to Mr. Pattmore. What did warm: to him ?—I believe what I said was, Mr. Pattmore, sirs? He replied by repeating my name. What then took plat?—The whole of what be observed between the time he ide to Mr. Pattmore and the firing, was a priming of the Mob; be believed the reply Mr. Pattmore made to him was, douching had taken place. At what distance were the par taken each other at that time?—l cannot say; there was a hip iitervening between me and the party; I could discern don; sone individuals with Mr. Pattmore were close Lei the lags. Be saw two Gentlemen walking about, which he pre mei Milne been when they were measuring the distance; he disothow who they were ; it was moonlight, but foggy ; he lord no conversation between the Gentlemen prior to the dis ' Mtge of the pistols ; heard an exclamation after the discharge, re sot oler the Madge. I found Mr. Scott on his knees, and IPattmore told me that he, Mr. Scott, was wounded. Mr. hat placed his hand on his side, pointing out to me the part in lich he had been struck; I proceeded to examine the wound *despot, and found an opening between the lower rib and the leinno of the right side. Mr. Scott fainted, but soon, by at tain, recovered ; although the ball appeared to have perfo zed the cavity of the abdomen, his speedy revival from the opt*, added to the small discharge of blood which bad taken Ike from the wound, satisfied me that ne large internal blood. mil had been injured ; and I therefore recommended that, kinder to afford him every possible assistance under such ac quittances, he should be conveyed to town as soon as possible. SIM were two Gentlemen, whom he understood to be Mr. Citistie and hi s friend ; did not know who that friend was, and lid sot seen him since. Mr. Christie asked me what I thought ithe wound ? I replied to Mr. Christie, that I feared the wand was mortal, in the hearing of Mr. Scott ; when he ad hued Mr. Scott, and expressed a wish " that he had been in It. Scott's situation, rather than Mr. Scott should have been "sided by him." Mr. Scott then said, " Whatever may be le hole of this case; I beg you all to bear in remembrance that torything has been fair and honourable." The CORON s elt asked witness if he considered himself bound. Ink way of his profession, to obey such summonses? Witness he never refused to attend when called upon, even by the ant abject individual. Witness being asked if he did not hear it said on the ground if Mr Christie, that he had fired down the field? replied, I did, II the best of my recollection. Mr. Christie said, " Why was I rwaitted to fire n second time? I discharged my pistol down le field before ; I could do no more." These expressions were sale in consequence of some altercation which took place be wets the seconds. Mr. Christie took Mr. Scott by the hand (take was wounded, and witness desired him to stand away, In Scott being at that time about to faint; did not hear him Wit Mr. Scott a good night. Mr. Pattmore stated to witness, arse day. after the occurrence, that if Mr. Christie and his End had agreed that he should not return Mr. Scott's ire, Mr. %bile's friend was bound, after the fire, to have communicated Intim the conduct pursued by Mr. Christie, of which he, Mr. littmote, was entirely ignorant. RtiGiam Beville Maurice, pupil to Mr. Pettigrew, cenfirmed Pt of the latter's statement. A Bow-street Petrole said, that he received information of the id. lltt his arrival at the Farm, he was told that all die par ks rate two had escaped; they were not given into his custody. 11r. Watson was called In to contradict this stAtement ; he Inc Mr. Pattmore into the custody of the officer, but he had ewe escaped.—The Jury condemned the officer for not having esd with more promptitude in apprehending the parties. Two Postillions were examined, and merely proved that they Wive th e parties to the ground. . This concluded the evidence ; and the Cozonza recapitulated ite testimony of the whole of the witnesses. He regretted that %panic/ had ended their differences so very unhappily. After ding a review of the whole of the circumstances, he remarked tloli the diCerent parts of the evidence, especially where it Oiled to their favour ,ne Jury adjourned to an adjacent apartment, and, after de otrating aLout half an hour, delivered their Verdict— Witial ( trio against .11r. Cluistie, Mr. Dail, and Mr. Pattnaorei. ne Coroner issued his warrant for their apprehension.—The b illegt Was not over tia twelve o'cliack. ••••Dl7ll.Di, FRB. 26.—.. Saturday, at three o'clock, .'"•Wi tseeihin.._ Ofil ute, who w as f oun d gu il ty on Thursday, at the ist t h e horrible and amnia. murder of his wife, ..41111117"04orce, was execu t ed in f ro n t of Ntwgate, pursuant •hlirestare, Immense crowds were aceumulatin i t from an "If hit iu Our muffling. When the unhappy culprit was led 141Wserised truly pmitent t ht acknowledged his guilt, alid ril,iiu . o of hu Neutt ..cr, and desired the prayer. of the Bee thniulteutle. A coign was placed behind him on the iaL ‘iier hanging the usual tim e , t h e b o d y was cut d own , Saito 3 :reruus' Daft, for dissecioo. LARODR IN IRELAND. The Earl of BLESSINTON observed, that there was one branch of labour in which the poor of Ireland inight be use fully employed ; it WAS in the quarries, where, he conceived, that quantities of stone for the erection of public works, might be obtained at a much cheaper rate than in any other part of the kingdom ; and he wished to know if any proposition were made to Government, whether that indulgence niieat be granted to the people of Ireland ? Lord MELVILLE. said, that stone might be obtained as good in quality, and as cheap, if not cheaper, elsewhere. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Lord CALTHORPE presented a Petition from several Occupiers of Land in the County of Suffolk. He said he should take that opportunity of making some observations on the subject to which the Petition referred. The distresses under which the Agricul turalists of the kingdom laboured, could not be ascribed to any one particular cause, and least of all, in his opinion, to the operation of the Corn Laws, which tended to do more mischid than good. He was ready to acknowledge the beneficent spirit which dictated those laws; but when he found that the very persons for whose protection they were intended, dis ' avowed any benefit that was supposed to arise from them, he felt it would be better not to have such laws at all. During the years 1817, 1818, and 1819, no less than three million quarters of Corn had been imported from other countries; and the introducing so much foreign Corn, duty free, into the country, must have had a most injurious effect on our Agri culturalists, who were subject to much greater ex pense in growing Corn, than the cultivators of other countries. Yet, he believed, the evil arising from the importation of foreign Corn was slight, compared to the warehousing system; and those who advocated that system ought to explain how it could be benefi cial. If this system went on, .all the protection in tended to be given by the Corn Bill was done away, and this subject well deserved the attention of Par liament, and he hoped it would be well considered by the Committee on the Bill in the other House of Parliament. There was a feeling among the Agri . cultural classes, which .ought to be seriously attended to. Among so quiet and useful a class of people as our Agriculturalists, it was most grievous to find a spirit of murmur, of dissatisfaction, and even dis affection against the existing state of things. His Lordship then presented the Petition. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said be could not let this occasion pass without making some remarks on what had fallen from the Noble Lord. With regard to the warehousing system, which was sti much con demned by the Noble Lord, if it was attended with any abuses, the same ought to be corrected; but he could not agree in the opinion just given by the Noble Lord on that question. A Committee had been, appointed last year to take it into consideration; and he could assure the Noble Lorti, that those who went into the Committee full of prejudices against it, came out with a full conviction, that so far from be ing attended with any abuse or disadvantage to the Public, it had been attended with considerable benefit. The question was, whether, after Coin was imported and deposited in warehouses, the law upon the sub ject could.be evaded? It any doubt existed as to that point, the question ought to be investigated.— Supposing the law respecting the warehousing sys tem done away, he wished their Lordships to see what the effect must be. It would be nothing less than that of impoverishing the commerce of the country ; for Corn intended for importation into Great Britain would then be warehoused in other countries, whose inhabitants would thus derive all the benefit arising out of a trade thus taken away from us. He therefore•felt it necessary to enter his protest against the principle advanced by the Noble Lord. 1 The Earl of LIMERICK said, that in one yea!) the speculations in foreign Corn amounted to between seven and 800,000 quarters ; and he hoped,, if the warehousing system was to be continued, that it would be under such regulations as should prevent the great evils that arose from those speculations. The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that the ole jec.ain of the Noble Earl did not apply to the ware housing system, but to the mode of taking the I averages. If there was some hand in that operation, it ought certainly to be corrected, and that- was the object of a proposition lately submitted to the other House—(Hear, hear). Lord CALTHORPE, in reply, said, he thought more security would arise. from a fair remunerating price than any other regulation. The Earl of DARNLEY said the distresses of the &mows arose alone from the enormous weight of taxation that pressed on all clays of the people, and he pzotestcd 4gaiug any plan of deluding the country by 3 hope that these distresses could be diminished in any other way than that of lowering the taxes and paying off a large portion of the Public Debt. It seemed as if the Farmers who sent up their Petitions tliought that Parliament could alter the nature of things. lie - was confident that by a due attention to economy, the taxes might be greatly lowered ; and he could see no other mode of relief than that.— Nothing but going to the root of the evil could ever remedy it. Lord RSKlNE'agreed with the Noble Lord who had just sat down, that much depended on the amount of the taxes; but he must protest against the opinion that it was indulging the people of the country to take into consideration the numerous Pe titions with which their Lordships' table had been loaded. It was insulting the people to tell them that no remedy could be found, when at the same time inquiry was denied—Wear). If a Committee was granted to take those things into consideration, he was convinced.that the people would be satisfied. If the physician said, " I can do ifOthing for you," the patient niiitht surely claim that he should at least feel his pulse. But his Noble Friend would not al low even the form and ceremony of inquiry ! He thought himself of proposing the appointment' of a Committee, and if it were true that all the causes of distress resolved themselves into a load of taxation, where could that fact be more satisfactorily ascer tained than in a Committee ? The Earl of HAR ROWBY declared, that it would be most mischievous to hold out prospects of relief which could never be realized. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE said the farming part of Ireland was in a most melancholy state of depression ; thb pasturing part was not se bad; the subject ought to be seriously considered ; but lie should do injury to the Irish Farmers if he held out to them any prospect of immediate relief.— He must say, in justice to his country, that its en durance of that distress had been wonderful, and did it the greatest credit—(Hear, hear). The Petition was read and laid on the table. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE presented a similar Petition from the Owners of Land in the neighbour hood of Whitford, in the County of Nottingham, Laid on the table. LATE OUTRAGE AT KILAfAINUAM. The Duke of LEINSTER presented a Petition from certain Freeholders of the County of Dublin to the same effect with that presented in the House of Commons by Lord J. Russell, mentioning the Meet ing that took place at Kilmainham, on the 30th of, December last, and the violent exclusion of the free holders from the Court-house, where they had as sembled, by a military force. After having read over the Petition, his Grace observed, that there was not the least occasion to have called in the military, for ' there were numerous police officers present, and the Riot Act was not read. It was not his intention to make any motion on this Petition, but merely to move that it be read. The Earl of BLESSINTON observed, that the Meeting alluded to in the Petition had been convened by the High Sheriff, for the purpose of presenting a Loyal Address to his Majesty ; on that occasion, a Mr. Byrne addressed the Meeting, and was allowed to go on without interruption, so long as he spoke' in favour of a Loyal Address to the King; but the 1 moment he began to express disapprobation of the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, he was not suf fered to be heard. Nothing could be more improper than the conduct of the Sheriff, who, departing from the duty he was bound to observe as Chairman of the Meeting, acted as a partizan. But what else could be expected in a country where the Sheriffs were appointed by the Viceroy, and were Officers of the Government? And if such Officers were to have a discretionary power, in determining what senti ments were or were not to be uttered by freeholders, there was an end to every kind of freedom in his un happy country. With r espect to the power of the Sheriff, he had no more power at a Public Meeting than any other person who had a right to be there, for any freeholder might have been called to the Chair. When the High Sheriff of Dublin withdrew abruptly from the Meeting, Lord Cloncurry was called to the Chair, and the Meeting still continued to be a legal one. At this moment a body of armed soldiers entered the Hall; Lord Cloncurry was drag ged out of the Chair by a Military Officer, and the freeholders bad to encounter the muskets and bayo nets of t the soldiers, or retire from the place. For tunately this outrage upon the public peace was not attended with the loss of any life, or any personal in jury; but it was a great public wrong inflicted on the nation, and it would be as useless for the freeholders to try to obtain redress in the Court of King's Bench, as was the attempt of the Manchester sufferers to do so. The power of granting redress rested with the Parliament alone; and it would have been ridiculous ' for any of the injured parties to sue for damages in any Court of Law, as had been lately suggested in another place. As one of the freeholders of the County of Dublin, he felt it his duty to stand forth and protest against the public wrong which had been done there ; and he should second the motion for re ceiving the Petition.—The Petition was received, and ordered to be laid on the table. AUSTRIA AND NAPLES. The Dicier of the Day for the Lords to be sum moned being read— The Marquis of LANSDOWN said he rose, pur suaut-to.the intimation he had given, for the purpose of bringing before the notice of their Lordships the transactions that were now carrying an upon the Continent of Europe. However strongly he felt on this subject, he hardly knew whether, after what had lately passed in the other Hothe of Parliament, he ougtit now to call the attention of their Lordships to it.—However, in the present general feeling of tLe Public, he did not think he should perform his duty if he declined to attend to • that reeling. and give it the most au:livaic record which it could receive in that House, by the motion he was about to make.-: If he had before felt it necessary to call the attention of the House to this question, how much more ne cessary must it be now,'when the most extraordinary Idelusion existed, as to the events in Nipples, in conse quence of the Circular issued by the Ministers of this : country ? He would now call the attention of the House to the subject, and he asked them to express their opinions upcn. it in a way which could be no longer misunderstood. In doing so, he should be necessarily obliged to refer to the last conduct , —or, rather, the past omissions of conduct in Ministers ; but he declared he would take no other advantage of these omissions, than passin,t; a censure on them for stiffer ing so many months to elapse without declaring their opinions in a clear manner, upon a subject that was so vitally interesting to this country and to Eu rope. To proceed, then, he should divide his obser vations into two parts : first, as to what the pi inciples were which the Allies proclaimed, by their Declara tion, to be the ground-work of their future proceed ings; and, secondly, what would be the probable tonsequences of their continuing to act upon these principles. In setting out, he was bound to state, that whilst he spoke of the parts severally taken by the Courts of St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin, in these transactions, he should guard himself against using the most disrespectful hint as to the poliefof these Courts, in the government of their own States; nor should he take any objection to that preponderat ing situation which they filled on the Continent of Europe—a situation to which, from their power and respectability, they were justly entitled, and which they had, on some past occasions, exercised for the general benefit and general tranquillity. But his ex ceptions were directed against these Powers, because they professed, in theory, an universal equaliaing system of which he could not approve ; for he knew it was the character of man in society to have differ ent—nay, jarring principles of legislation and g 0... vernment, in action in different countries : at the same time, he objected to them, because he saw them now attempt to carry into effect a scheme hatched in tho very heat of the French Revolution, and by men falsely called philosophers—that chimerical, imprac ticable scheme, of reducing the whole world to an uniform system of government. It was cn these grounds he took exceptions to their conduct, and he would tell them that, whether the scheme was to set all free, or make all slaves, it was, and he hoped it would be, equally impracticable and impossible to be carried into execution—(Hear, hear).—Vt hat was the difference between the Declaration of the French Itevoltitionists and that of the Allies ? Only this, that one contained principles of general liberty and universal equality, whilst the other contained a ceri. tain ideal standard of a Monarchical Government, with a few grains of liberty in it ; and so abiolute was this, that that only was to be tolerated. It was with the principles disclosed in this Declaration of the Allies that he had now to deal—principles which were said to be contrary.to.the fundamental laws of this realm, and yet which the State Paper to which he referred - nOw said, wet e in conformity with the feelings of the Government of this country on the subject ! That paper certainly stated, that though this Gb vernment did not agree upon the expediency of the measures at present pursuing by the Allies, yet, oh general principles, and in the general viow of affairs on the Continent, they were entirely agreed with them. It was upon this account, and because the country was so pledged, that he called upon the House to examine with him what these principles were. He regretted that a document, which had al ready appeared in the Public Prints, did not lie on the table of that House. The document to which he alluded was, the Declaration of the Allied Powers, which he would now use from what he believed to be a faithful copy of it, namely, the second copy which appeared in the Public Newspapers. In that Declaration there was an exposé, • or, rather, an ex• posure-of the motives• which induced the Govern. ment of Austria to march its armies upon Naples. It set out by saying, that unexpected changes had taken place in that kingdom, in consequence of the in fluence and interference of a certain sect. As to changes having been effected by a sect, he would contend, that of whatever nature these changes were, or by whatever party brought :theta, it mattered not to Austria—as a foreign State, Austria could never be justified in interfering with the internal concerns of another State under any circumstances whatever.--_ (Hear). Yet this was one ground taken by her as a justification of this outrage on Naples. Another was, that the objectionable sect took its measures in se cret. As to the existence of political sects generally, living in a free country such as this,. he (Lord Lans down) would say, that he bad a great objection to their existence; but was he, therefore, to say, that there were no cases—no Governments, under which they mild not be useful and necessary? He was not prepared to say but that if he lived under a des potic Government, Which did not protect his. Fred perry, or revere his liberty, he would not countenance and foster a private sect, whose objects would be to attain the accomplishn-ent of both these. - In despea iic Governments it was the only way of attaining any imp: ovements. The sect alluded to here, were called the Carbonari, which, •though said to be of revert origin, yet he had good authority for saying, e x i s t e d in Italy since the time of Leopold, under the name of Charbonois ; that they subsequently assumed other names and characters, and that at the time the tya ranny of Bonaparte extended itself over Italy, they were cherished and encouraged as the only party that could rid Italy from French influence. The nest es.. cuse in the Declaration was, that the changes in N. a. ples were not only brought about by a political sect ) but that this sect took all its measures in the dark. This was a strange accusation in a country where the smallest act of a sect of men would draw upon tl.ent the immediate interference and vengeance of the con stituted Authorities Could a chip e be pus bli - effected in the Government by any ter titan secrA