Star. — London, England, 1817-03-25 00:00:00

~=~"' •"' • • •' or Societies merely convivial,' tA • .• icAiohject whatever in assembling? S ; !:INE remarked, it was i•nrrtant to .•s part of the Bill was intended to be • iit, and therefore they should be undoubtedly etmall tu. as In what they enacted. Their object i:s .iiiy nosydt to h t•i impose as few restrictions as li p n the p..,. 1 ,1e. because by imposing none- COSS try restraints they :right produce discontent, and excite a Spirit Of hostility in place tif that love which persons bo-e to a country having the sacred character o f f i v ce d/in. Oleic were other Societies besides Free masons which might have, perhaps, tests equally so lemn, bin which w is equally harmless. • Toe Lail LIVERPOOL slid there Was no inten tion whatever of subjecting to inconvenience mere con• vivial ti tictiei, which might be productive of plea sure ne A Illant -Ige SO individuals. But if any clubs or such ties t.ad any :cst or declaration, attended with any s iientit . zy, it was but fair that they should be subjected the simerinsendance in that respect of, Justices of the reAce. Lord ERSKI N E observed, that there were the Quizzes, the Bucks, the Odd Pillows, and several other Societies, whom object was equally harmless with that of the Freemasons. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, as his Noble anti Learned Friend seemed to be so well acquainted with these Societies, he rsituld perk ups employ it short time to-mirrow morning in frarrng so .ne amendment to taw the object in view. The clause WAS then agreed to. An Amendritent, proposed by Earl Guns - et:Non, to limit the duration of the Bill to the Ist July, lila, was negatived. Lord Viscount SIDhIOU CH proposed a clause to prohibit public meetings within a mile of the two Houses of Parliament when sitting, or of the Courts of Justice when sitting at Westminster. Lord ST. JOHN said. he thought the clause was highly objectionable, as tending to ennbasrrass the right of holding public weetings, for the purpose or petitioning the Throne, or either Houses of Pasha. anent, upon subjects of public interest. The Earl of ROSSLYN contended, that there wais t no reason why the inhabitants•ot,Westminster should not have the exercise of•a privilege, v. iiich was pos sessed by the inhabitants of every other part of Lon don. He should have preferred that a clause of so much importance had been introduced int.) the Bill at first, rather than now, towards the very close of any clU i snesionwopon is. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that the clause had originated in the suggestion of a Noble Earl on the utlier side of the liouse, upon a former evening. 'With respect to its principle he did not think there , could be ally difference of opinioe. Their Lordships must be perfectly sensible of the indecorum of per witting meetings to be held within the purlieus of Parliament. which, from their nature, often led to scenes that never should be tolerated. It was certainly most desirable that the Members of their Lordships' House, and of the other House of Parliament, should not be exposed to those gross outrages which had 1101Detiales occurred, when coming down to Parlia ment in the exercise of their public duty ; their dig nity imperiously demanded such a protection. With regard to the proposed distance of a mile, he did not epprehend that would throw any serious impediment in Oa wart)! 'Awfully assembling to petition either the Throne or the Legislature. A line musthe drawn snmewliere, And Ise was informed by a Noble Friend who was commonly accurate upon such matters, that a mile and a half would not extend furtlor than the Input . St. James's-street. A mile. Illation, would k v e suffjcieatopportunitieslortheinhabitantsof West minster to meet whenever they might deem it necessary. Lord LAUDERDALE said. he believed the in tention of his Nobly Friend, not now present, whose suggestion was alleged as the authority tor this clause, had Owen mistaken. That Noble Earl, he appre hended, merely wished to preserve the two Houses of Parliament from meetings immediately adjacent. , He 'Meld like to know, however, wby the inhabi tants of Westmiaster wore to be alone excluded irons a privilege which, by the wording of the clause, would be found to belong to,the inhabitants of other parts of the metroplis, who might bold their meeting where they thought proper?—(Lord Sidinouth here intimated across die table, that the clause did not specify the inhabitants of Westatinsteis by prohibit ing all public meetings within a nide of Westmiuster Hall.)—The Noble Lord said be was glad to hear that explanition, as it retaored at least one objection which he had to the clause, but still he wished to be informed, if the inhabitants of Westminster were Dot permitted to inert within a mile of Westmins.er Hall, where they were to meet ? He knew of no place at the west end of the town, which could be twined as fit for such a purpose; but perhaps the Noble Viscount opposite, who joined the office of Hugh Steward of Westminster to his other more im portant funstions, could point out some spot where matins might be held. . Lord•GRENVILLE said the object of the clause was not to prevent. in any manner, the people of Westminster from eujoying the lair and just exercise of their right to assemble, for purptines authorized by the Constitution, but to put a stop to that low me, which, it he did not agree with the Noble Earl, was An indecorum, he at least considered as an in convenience, of holding meetings within the vicinity of Parliament, which often led to conduct as affect ing the Members of both Houses. which ought to be repressed. With that view, and as the) merely wished to protect the immediate avenues from inter ruption. perhaps if they were to substitute half a wile, fur • mile, the end' would be answered, as he understood Charing-cross was within that distance, anif thus Whitehall and Parliament-street, &am to Westminster Hall, would be preserved from any ob situction. There wuuld be time, before they were called upon finally to agree to the present clause, to ascertain thaVoint. He would also suggest a slight verbil alteration in the clause, making- it applicable wheaemer Parliament or the Courts of Justice might sm, instead of Westminster Hall generally. ai it was at the discretion of the Crown to call Parliament to gether wherever it might judge proper ; and also to order, at its own pleasure, the place for holding the Cowls of Law. Lard ERSKINE perfectly concurred I l i the pro_ piety of piobibiting public meetings being held near the 'bum of Paisaituent ; during the sitting of P ar . fisosent ; but he did hat WS the same oetessity with ,' 'regard to the Courts of Law. He was not aware that any inconve iieece could be sustained by them. in ermaeqiience of a alerting held in Palace-yard, while they were sitting ; and it should be remembered, that the operati In of the clause, by comprehending both cases, would go to prevent meetings during al most the whole of the year. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, It would be for their Lordships to determine whether they would ex tend the same protection to the Courts of Law as to the Houses of parliament? He merely wished to observe, that a case had occurred, during the time in which he had sat as Chia . Justice of the Cann of King's Bench, where a tumultuous and disorderly meeting assembled in Westminster Hall, and he had found it necessary to sdspend the proceedings of the Court. Not that he himself felt any alarm ; but he did not deem it right to sit there and administer the law of the land under such circumstances. and he waited till the Sheriffs were sent for, and the mob was cleared out. He was aware that was a case of great rarity ; but it had occurred, and !Living occur red. there was no reason why it might not happen again. Lord ERSKINE observed, that the Noble and Learned Lord had proved there was no necessity, ra ther than that there was a necessity for the present clause. He had mentioned an instance where a meet ing was held in Westminster Hall, during the sitting of the Court of King's Bench, and lie had shewn, that by sending for the Sheriffs, a power already existed to remove any such inconvenience. The Clause was then ragroed to, and the Amend ments being all guar through, the Bell was then or. &red to he read a third time to-morrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TM. being the last day for reccivi:t Private Bills the 'fosse was occupied the greater portion of au sitting in their disposal Mr. M. A. TAYLOR postponed the second reading of the Mettopul:s Paving Bid, and the Mutton intended to precede it, until Monday next. The committal of the Saving Bank Bill was postponed until the 241 of April wit. On the Motion of Mr GORDON, it was ordered tbat there be !aid before the House certain Paper, respecting the Progress of the New Post-Office Building. The Irish Peace Preservation BM was read a second time. The committal at the Loudon Coats Bill wu postponed until that day three weeks. The Land Revenue Bill went through a Committee—Report 10-MOITOM. SA LT DUTIES. Mr. CA LC RA FT post pc ned his Motion respect ing the Salt Duties until Tuesday seinnight, and at the same time ttiok the opportunity of stating that lie had that day received a letter from his Right Hun. Priend (Mr. Tierney), at present detained in the country by indisposition, communicating his intro den to submit his promised Motion for the Si.ppres sion of the Office of Third Secretary of State on die 29tb of April next. He had privately seen the Nable Lord (Castlereagh) not now in his place, and in the words of the letter assured him, that his Right Honoorable Friend (Mr. Tierney) was in earnest. TITHES. Mr. NEWMAN gave notice, he should on Thurs day next, move for leave to bring in a Bill to enable Proprietors of Tythes to grant Leases thereof, so as to bind their sueeassovs. _ The Bill, he sdicl, would be founded on the Resolutions of the Select Com mittee slut at in the lau Sessicm of Pat Latent on the subject of Tythes. 00i111111POWDINCIL Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that be would take an early opportunity to submit to that Hbute a mo tion respecting the almost total interruptbn given to Commercial Correspondence, in consequence of all letters being opened in the Foreign Yost-offices abroad. He wished to kaow when it were probable the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) would bt able to attend? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped his Noble Friend would . bi in his place before the end of the week.—He then gave notice, that to morrow he would move in a Committee to amend the Act of last Session relative to the Consolidation of the English and ItisClafcbequers.—Adjourned. 'ARY PAPERS. The quantity of foreign linens imported last year amounts to 220,722 ells, whereof about a ball has been warehoused. Of Silesia and Dutch damask and diaper about 50,454, whereof 16,000 hAve been ware housed; of French cambric: and lawns about 38,576, whereof 35,000 have been warehoused. Quantity of foreign Been yarn imponed into C. qrs. lb. Great Britain, between the Stls January, 1616, and Sth January, IBi 7 . Quantity of Irish linen yarn (including fish pro duce of the I.le of Man) Imported into Great Britain, between the Sti January, 1816, and Sth January, 1617 'There are six persons tn cemfinement in the Cold bath-fields Prison, under the 99th, and 40th of the present King, one of whom h as been in custody more than a year, two since last summer, and three since November. The fees paid to the LORD CHANCILLOR'S Seat• tuy of Bankrupts' Commissions, for copies of prc ceedings in bankruptcy, have been, during five years, tor fees 44445, and . for stamp duty 45,449. Oa account of eopiei respecting lunatics 41,888.. About 413,000 in five years in the office of Registerer of Affidavits- No aceonnt has been kept of the fees for striking dockets of bankruptcy out of the regular hours, as they have been divided among the clerks, but they are supposed to average AM per Anent- The amount of =Duey issued. bi the Paymaster of the Forces, for the payment of fees and expedite of individuals, in respect of Peerages, Orders of Knight .hood, and other orders of dignity, during the year 1816, has been 419,286. G. Csaaot.t. has the greatest pleasure in calling the attention of the Public to the present Lottery.— The &bane, including FOUR Capitals of 490,000, contains 10,098 Primes, although it consists of only 14,600 Tickets. It will be seen, therefore, theith j ere are nearly Five Prises to Two Blanks, inuead ot; as has usually been the case, F2ur Blanks to One Prize. The Prices of Tickets and Shares are also conside • rably lower than have been known for many yean.— G. CARROLL WORM therefore recommend his Friends. 'rho may be desirous of securin g any favourite Num ber, to make early application at his Offices, as, should they be delayed till too aeu the Drawing, it will be impossiWe to procure thorn. 'Their Orders at Nu. 7, Combill. and 96, Osford-street, will be im niedlately atemded to. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 20. The day on which the Chamber of Deputies it to re-assemble is not yet fixed. We art assured that this Sitting, which probably will be the last of the Session, will not take piece until after the Budget is voted in the Elouse of Peers; and that it will be merely occupied by a Report on the remaining Peti tions presented during the Session. It is said that the new Elections, the period for which is not yet fixed, will take place at tour diffe rent times ; that is to say, the 16 Departments which Are to return Deputies for 1817 will be classed in four divisions, and will meet for the purpose of elect ing their Deputies one after the other. It is believed that the departments of the Seine and the Oise will form part of the first division. The 10th of May next is fixed for the removal of the mortal remains of hlatlame Elisabeth, who was assassinated on that day in 1791. by the Revolu tionary Tribunal, and deposited in a piece of ground belonging to the house called the Maim du Chrirt, at the Barriere de Mousseau. The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia arrived on the 12t1i at Lisle, where his Imperial Highness was received with civil and military honours, and visited the citadel. His Imperial Highness proceeded the same day on his journey to Maubeuge: he was ac.' companied by Count Lauriston, Peer of France, Lieutenant-General commanding a division of the Royal Guard, whom the King sent to Calais to re ceive his Imperial Highness. Letters from Marseilles state, that Prince F,rdi nand Frederick Augustus, brother of the late King of Wurtemberg, who visited that City last month in the strictest incognito, under the name of Augustus Von Hochberg. a German Loaded Gentleman, which he afterwards changed to Ftederick Rosner, was going to resume his route instintly for Nice. The Prince expected his wife there. His departure appears to have been occasioned by intelligence brought him by a courier. He has hired a house at Nice, which he is to occupy on his arrival, and which he intends to inhabit until the month of May next. The Russian Minister of Police has arrived at Paris. PARIS, MARCH 22. _Yesterday the anniversary of the death of the un fortunate Duke D'Enghien WAS celebrated iR the Chapel of the Chateau of Vincennes. The body of the Prince is still deposited in the same hall where he acts condemned to death ; anJ that port of the foss from which it was ochurned has been enclosed and planted with evcrgreens. More than twenty Members of the Chamber of Peers have inscribed their names to sprAk on the Budget. 011 the 11th instant, at 24 minutes past nine o'clock, an earthquake of some violence was felt at Lausanne. It continued for the space of about a minute. It appears to have also extended to Berne, Neufchatel, and'Geneva. Alariut 24 hours before, several persons were struck with a remarkable sort of subterranean detonation. From the 11th to the 14h of this month, fourteen ships laden with grain arrived at Dunkirk. The monotony which has so long distinguished the i Diet at Frankfort, is beginning at last to be inter ruined by some rather embarrassing discussions. As long as the powers of the Diet did not lead to any lactual encroachment on the existing state of things, nobody cared to question their extent ; but now that territorial cessions and exchanges, suppressions of sovereign authority, Ste. are threatened, nobody will allow them, to have any power whatever. A vaca tion of the Diet is to take place at Easter, which will give the Members an opportunity of visiting their respective Courts, from which it is to be hoped they will return with posers so ample and distinct as to obviate any difficulty on the important matters en trusted to their deierminatioo. Lim hvENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1817• Lain-Amt.—Holiday at the Book, Eschever, and Sout It ka House. The following singular Advertisement appears this day in a Morning Paper " Leap COCHRAN& " Haft No resolved to view (during a few months) t►e opera tions going on in South Amnia, wW glee to any private gentle man, or to any gentleman immediately interested in the com merce or mercantile coneerns of that country, the most ample security for the LOAN of ‘lo,uoo, to be repaid with interest widtin in months. The pasty may, during Lord Cochrane's absence, have the use of his house named Holiyhill, which is die most beautifully situate on the Southampton river, together with the lawn, and garden full of fruit-trees of various kinds, and of excellent qualities: the salt water tor bathing, at the bottom of the Nem, h perhaps the purest in the South of England. Lord Cochrane will. besides, absolutely dispose of a contiguous pro. petty, It for the residence of a gentleman's family, having nearly similar advantages." We have no doubt whatever• but Lord COCHILINI Will meet with the accommodation he wants in less than forty-eight hoofs. He will, in South America, find 4 precursor—Sir Gagnon Vfteuon, whose ad vice and co-operation, in whatever speculation he may embark in, may prove useful to his Lordship.—Have the Independents yet appointed an Admiral-inChiet ? Where could they find such another as Lord Co- CUBANS He goes to a fine field. We learn that Mr. Vnuctisn, who has recently arrived from Spain, was .dispatched by Sir Hmay Wsurscsit, to repe4t to Ministers the urgent solici. utioas of the Court of Madrid for msistance from this country, in the contest with the revolted colonies. The application, we are happy to say, has met with a decisive refusal. A letter received yesterday, dated Sierra Leone, Feb. 6, flays r•-.." There is on the Western Coast of this Continent, a schooner under Carthagenian co lours. She has lately pluudered a brig belonging to this Coloiy of part of her *ergo. amounting to value to about 1114000 sterling. Commodore SIT JAMB Yie WAfi here when the brig arrived, and lutb biuce tailed on ir cogs* dowu the coast." DUTCH NIA/L. The Mail of this morning has brought us Papers en the 23d instant. The rivers in Holland, which by their untiqual had caused great alarm to the inhabitants, h begun to fall. The various corps of tht Army or Cleenp.iti which are to leave France, according to the last tte,o l are now all in rnotior f r that furpo.r. The sians alone still cl:lay, id ord..r that they may be to viewed by the Grand Duke NICHOLAS. France continues to fuifil her chligattons 7'th greatest punctuality. The nee neary siims hAve been paid, to provide the inag; , itin:r t!' the e? lies, h. the Ist ((April, wi.lt corn and for iz.e. The Mika of WELI INGTON is tsletted in the No therlands After Easter, at which titre st,ritecorp it is reported, be encamped in the ne:ghhetrhc— of Antwerp. On Sunday, the lfith instant, ti:,! Uiet at r fort held an err:ordinary meeting, but the reat-n this measure has not transpired -3; ieast we have t,r found it assigned in any of ti.e Cortincntal Jew:: e, A respectable German I‘..;?s: has the felcecia; from Sweden :—.‘ Notwithstatisiing ti'e reports sl discontents, which ale curent in other rotintxiee re. specting Sweden, we never were more tranquil that At this moment. At period when rise ticheencoure tries are threatened with scarcity of food, the Kist and the CROWN PRINCI have fully provided for the wants of Sweden. The attention of the Cann! Panics to the internal administration has had the hest success. The salaries of the public officers are doubled, The wounded soldiers, and the widows of tLe ea:n are provided for. We are not rich, bat we fesi vat , selves free and independent." We have this morning received the French P.spe•l to the 23d instant: their contents will be found 11 a preceding column. Sunday evening, her NIAJesTv had a select party at her . Palace. Yesterday, soon after twelve o'click the Qum' and Princes Aurtusin. escorttd by party of light horse, left the P.tlace for Wincloor. The Cabinet Council. which was held on Sundty, rdjourned to Lord CASTLEREAGH'S hollte.', St. James': square, in . consequence of the in.iiipoitton LI Li Lurtiship. The Duke of GLOUCESTER is intfispond with a cold, We are extremely happy to state, •hat ti:e heaiti of bit THOMAS PLUMER SO much better, that It has been able to leave his clumber, and his friends are led to expect his presence in Court next Sittirp Report states, that the Princess CitAnt.o, TE his W, last concluded the treaty w.th the Duke of MAN.- 13-)ROUGH, for the mansion in Pall-m. 411 Arrangements are at last making for the wirpo:e of finishing the RoyAl Crescent, rnp r' Perk. The elevation, Antic ut has long been bthelel with a novel-int-Wy vye ap ti: lovers of the arts. Tuesday, the Countess of WENIYS'i gave 13411 to a numerous party, at her house, Queen-street, Eainburgh. The supper included all the delicacies of the season, and was the most superb of any 1; - ..e:t this year in that city. The American ship Ida has arrived or Core! from Canton, which place she left ow foe 2d tit De cember; and all that has transpired from on bow. ber is the confirmws.".l:ll of the failure of Lord Au Capt.r.,in Doe (of the American vessel) statt. that when he sailed the mission had n(.t reti.:ned Canton ; and that it was calculated, that his Lord ship could not finish his journey thither before do middle of the same month. A house was Sic:lg tri for the reception of the Embassy on the •side of ;hi River opposite to the British factory, by order ut thi Viceroy of Canton. May it not he argued from Ow that whatever offence might have been taken at cul 'Ambassador by the Chinese Coutt, it WAS not Stlt! as would induce the Emesnoft to hasten the denartui of the mission from his territories ; or to withholcs during the stay of Lsrd AMHERST and his suite, those courtesies which, so long as they are suffered to exist. may, perhaps, be considered as keeping ripen ir soma degree the road to a renewal of cur amicable course with that Goverrime nt ? Wl,en the Ida final! sailed for England, the ALCLSTE was at ancLor Canton River, at the second bar. LoRD LIEUTENANT of AsstrueoNsiour., with the approbation of the PRINCE R ECE NT, has appo intee' the following. Geatlemen Deputy Litutetrants of O. County : 11/lACILINZIE FRAM, of Inverafhtc!”• Faamei. GARDIN cAmrstt.t., Wft.olll4 GORDON, of Frrot. loom roosts, of Boyntlbe. A. Foists, junior, of Blackford. TnollAS GORDON, Of BlitllLw. 1011t4 . 1tOneftloON, of icilet3O. Dr. 11110)4A, MOIIIsON, Of Flick. C0111)uN, Ot WardLou►e. Wednesday John Camp Sell, Hash Die lrm, Ana reit Gidtan, and earl y yes. c: sy morning, Joan JP L. Ail/ and Williams Simpson, accused rl tress. liable pi - Ect were brought from Glasgow, and I.),lgiti in th Castle (along with William Edgar, and three v:vef committed there rn Mo:iday last). The ::ts shut, and v.e sentinels have urdet s to tac;udt: nti those belonging to, or baying bnsinets with, the 2 tl risooo—Edin;rurgh Paficr of Friday •. The key. Neil Doug has been liberate.l on vL • bond of aftWO.—Drito. Aadrow AP Kin/q, weaver, 'rem Glvitow, new prisoner in Edinburgh Castle, has received fits .t, dictment to stand trial before th e Hi g h Court 4/.0" ticary, on the sth of April nest, for the crime of .t , ministering unlawful oaths. The provincial papprs received in torn yester•!l7 represent the United Kingdom as tl:.:!!y net tr.' any symptnni of riot or disturbs nee. Durios Divine Service, on Sroby, t m o b of 3 5 ,Att uor rya sad boys assembled io liare-strsLt Beams! 3ratr, c.:3- tnitdus variou• brescies of ilia peace, to Ir6u » tt due 0!1:e"" About a dolon of them, Lowever, ware igsui late ittrfP 4 7e a consmittcd to prison, tot WAtsi, 44.4 • 'A 'r, ty. ••• tee PI fTI Fe 4DI ff ii I" sl rr r: C. • th id VI li ;!4 d. 11 r• frc CA P 4 la Ld ri ty ft.° , !ft) i a Ira Bii Alt }la Tei .is Rei Id. V. ' at . 1. fr it r'. Ip :7 • e!, iLs ''`i ?-r tit Fri c., is s ro I. in Ile a up "1 1 1 hr he .ul •a: .ur rc • Te Ile Id, ,se st rt. C It li. ' I 6 . ith ea t Per he frS • tr• .1". en ;.: ;•.• '3*