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f r PdRLI4IMENTART PItqCEENNGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. i 1 HOUSE OF LORIN, JUNE IS. Counsel were finally beard OR the ease of " Wight v. Ritchie," when the judgment of the Court below was affirmed. In that of " Mitchell v. Jamieson," Counsel were fully heard., The judgment of the Court of Session was affirmed. On the Appeal of " Jamieson v. Ritchie," Counsel were beard. The judgment pf their Lordships In this case was also one of aibrmatien. The case of " Lord F,eafarth v. Hume" was, on the motion of Lord RELIe SDA LP., ordered to be referred back to'the Court of Session for farther coosideration. A Message was brought Ur from The Commons by Sit JAMts GRAHAM, and other Members; impoiting that the House lad g iven leave to one of its Members, smut., scot:, Esq. to be examined before their Lordships' Cott Committee, should he ri think fit. 1 he Westminster and 13ritisli Insurance Company's Bills were also brought up by the same Menthol-, together with a g reat number of private or local Bills, which were severally read a first #.1.4 ; as was tbe Itiih Exchequer sills Bill, priesented by BxOGDEN. DUNDAS'S DIVORCE BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, adverting to the circumstance that an appeal from the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court had been presepted pending the progresi of the Divorceßill in that House, stated the difficulty under which the House was placed. — If they proceeded, the ultimate decision in the Eccle siastical Courts might be different from that-Which they now had on their table; and yet it would be mischievous to suffer their proceedinip to be stopped . in cases of frivolons appeals. Thtir Lordships might, however, thernselyel jtidge of the grounds of the ap peal as far as their proceedings were concerned. It would pot be proper to ask what were the facts to be proyeci on the appeal, but they 'might ask what were the generlti grounds of it; and therefore he proposed that they shoold call the agents on Monday, and re /attire them to state the grounds. ' 'Lord LAUDERDALE stated, that he under atoOd the ground to he such facility attel negligence on the part of Mr. IQitodas, as'to afford encourage inent to the offence. In the appeal she could proceed tat the expense of the husband; in that House, if the cause were to be'heard there, she Must provide an agent and counsel for heiself, 'and she had no funds. ' Lord STANHOPE highly approved of the course proposed hy the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack. Lord LAUDERDALE again stated the hard ship of proceeding in that House, where she could not defcad herself. Lord 2;TANHOPE said, she could never want defenders %there she had cite so able and willing as the Noble d. --Proposition agreed to. ca.:twit:ion CANAL PILL. On the third reading Of this Bill, which was mov ed by the Earl of Hannwic4E, a d:scussioa took Place, in consequence of the Earl of BatnoewaTea's moving a Clause to 'be added to tha Pill, by way of rider. Lord REDESDALE spoke in disapprobation of certain parts and provisions of the Bill, and support ed the clause. The Earl of HA RDWICKE shortly oppb:ed it. Th: LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his opi nion, that the clause contained such a provision, as that no one who regarded the lives of his fellow sub jects could object to, as it tended to provide for the erection of sufficient hawks and foot-ways at each side of the canal. The time was come, he observed, when some degree of understanding was necessary on the subject of such Bills, A due and deliberate attention was necessary to be paid to several of their provision: ; and he referred to various considerations in which they were highly detrimental or injurious to the interests and properties of individuals. He Was placed there to take some care of the interests of his Majesty's subjects in general ; but he never knew GE any instance in which he had succeeded in his op. position to a Canal Bill. The difficulty of the times, with respect to the raising of money, as adierted to by a NOble Earl in the discusiion, was, iss his opi pion, not a sufficient excuse ; it was the duty of Par liament not to pass sucl Bills, unles's funds were pro. vided capable of being applied to the purpose within a given time ; and he hoped the House would not be so benumbed Its not to attend to that important consideration; Much of what bad transpired in the oiscussicn would be more applicable to the qu;stion of the third reading of ;be Bill, than on that Of an additional clause, to which, in justice to a general principle, *ad with a view to the operation of the Bill without it, he mt;st . giye his assent. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE concurred in sentiment with respeit to much •of what had fallen frein'the a nd Noble Learned Lord, and approved a . 64 which %via calculated for the convenience and iifety of individgals. On the question, the clause was adopted by heir Loidsli f ts withoot a division. 'A setond clause was proposed by the Earl of B tu oczwATE , l, which seemed More to apply to the principie of the 1341; but alter a short discussion on ;,le point between his Lordship and the Earls of LAUDERDALE and HannwrEice, it was negatived hi a division of 16 to IG. The Bill was then passed. The iersaining Bills before the I-Zonse bein; dis. posed of, their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow. Mr. WALL r-R, from the Colirt of Chanccry, presented a re turn from the D.Tuty Registrar of the Court, pursuant to an order of tar li:,u3e.—The paper was ordered to lie on the table. • Mr. IRW:N (the Inspector-Ger.:rat of Exports and Imports) preseifiecl accounts of grain imported from foreign countries and from Ireland; and also a Town of the quantity exported to this cmlotr f i.r the last year.—Ordtred to lie on the table. 'le a Committee of Supply, Mr. LOSIIINC; lON moved a grant of 41,500,000 to discharge certain Outvanditiv, Exchequer 134:15. The motion was agreed to, and the report Of the Cnra r..itter syaa ordered tt , be received to-mormw. Iu a Committee orkVays and Means, a Cunt of Efl,"oo,ceo to be raised by fachocrtr bills, was agreed to, for the arrli.rt• of the present year. "tee Report was ordered to be received to rrwr row. General G.kSCOYNE presented a Petition from the Clittrch wardens and Overseen of Liverpool, against the Pcor's The reiitio'n Was read, and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. RD,E gave notice that he would move on Friday that the Report of ale Committee on Captain Manby's invention, should . • • , betaken into consideration. 41;. Fl I ZOERAL.D obtained leave to brim! in Bills for better rea;ulating the Irish Spirits Duties, and for securing the Collec t:on o: the stamp limit". The report firth* Clergy Residence Bill was ordered to be taken imp further consideratton ore jriday. Re urns of the Annual Exports and Imports, to and from New foundland, were ordered twbe laid before the House. The bid, Exchequer Regulation Bill was read a second time, and committed for Friday. Put Irish Customs Duties' BUZ was read a second time, and Duty and the Irish Laud Mr. I.QNG broug/stlo a bar ipr Iteguiatlitrthe Payment of Army Prize Mon ey.--iiLcod a first, and ordeepd to be read a , aeconil time to-morrow. Mr. I.USHI NG VON,brougkin Italy for rasing 421,0 1 00,00 by way of annuity, for the public aloe, wlsla was re l a atrst and ordered to be }Tad a second time to-Morrow. The Capo Wine Bill was read i i*rdpme.and passed. 811./. Mr. FINI.4y presenxed 'Petitions from the Uni versities of Glasgow- and SC Andrew's, against the Copy-right Bill, now in -the House. The booksel lers and others who supported the Bill, he stated to have greatly exaggerated the inconveniences likely to arise from giving copies of new p4blication; to Learned 4odies. The Petitis.m4 wcre the') read, and ordered to lie on the table. In answer to a question from a Member, Sir EGER:I'PN SRYDGCS expressed himself willing to postpone the consideration of the report of the Copy-right Bill from to-morrow to an early day in the ensuing week. Seieral Members objected to its being postponed, and it was tinally suffered to stand for to-morrow, (this day.) orricrns OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Sir JOE-IN NEWPPRT, seeing a Noble Lor4 in his place, rose to observe, that of - all the Officers in the Court of Chancery, the Registrar had atonevade the return called' f - ,r by the House. He therefore gave notice, that it was his intention to submit a moticn to' the House to-morrow, for ordering all those Officers of the Court of Chancery to the liar who baa not made the returns balled for. • • Lord CASTLEREAGH had spoken with the Noble Lord at the head of that COurt on the subject. His return would have been made very early, had it not been kept back that it might be seat in with the rest. He. did not know hOw it happened that the Registrar alOne had been able to make his return, but he believed there was some difficulty in making out ta returns, as some of the Officers had changed hands ninny times within the last tiventy years. He believed the Officer's were at present hard at work, Endeavouring to comply With the order of the House. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, an order On the Sub ject had'been 'made in March, and the last was made on the 15th off' May. All the other Cour is had been able to make their ratites, with the exception of a few of the Irish Courts ; and he did not uno,erstand why none of the Oiliceri of the Court of 'Chancery could make a mien but the Registrar. His return only•stated, that he knew of no increase havinz, been made in the fees of his office ; and he (Sir John New port) did not see :shy he could not have made sect) a return a month ago as well as now.—While on his legs, he must call the attention of the HOusc to ano ther subject. He was sorry to 1- r ave occasion to com plain so frequently of breaches of the Union. Ay tire Act of Union the transit of commodities from England and Ireland had equal and reciprocal facilities. 'This' pinvision had lately been violated by a refusal te al low the drawback on Irish soap, which was alloved ' on soap nrade in England. If the Noble Lord had no objection to his making a motion' on the subject now, he would move, That there should be laid be fore the House a copy of any Oltder 'issued by the Commissioners of the Excise fur withholdii4 the drawback 'bn Irish scrip exported; and de4laring it Could not, for the time to come, be allowed on any excisable commodity which was nut manufactured in England. Lord CASTLEREAGH had no objection to the Motion.—The Papere were orderi:d to be laid before the House. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. WILI3ERFOILCE wi;hed his motion on the subject of the Slave Tr. de, the object of which was to procure st;ch benefits as might be obtained for Africa, during the five years in which the trade was to continue, to come on on Monday next, if the No hle Lord'opposite (Lord Castlereagh) had no objec tion to that day, on account of the urangements made with respect to the Royal Personages now iii this country. Lord CASTLtRE4CH stated Monday, to In one - of those days which it had been proposed to de vote to amusement in Another place, and wished the Honourable Gentleman to name some other day.— • On Thursday pr Friday he thopght the motion might be entertained, With a prospect of comiqg to a satis factory conclusion. Mr: WILBERFORCE, if he could not bring it on On Monday next, would wish to bring it on on Monday se'nnight, and therefore wished the discus sion on the Treaty to be postponed from that day. Lord CASTLEREAGH thought nothing likely to interfeie an Friday with the discussion, if the Ho nourable Gentleman would consent to bring it for ward on that day. 'lt woulci be very painful to him so repeatedly to postpone the larger question. Mr. WILBERFORCE declined naming any other day at present. The Motion therefore stands for Monday.• 4PPIIpMcI; PILL. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved the third reading of the Appremice Bill. Mr. P. MOORE wished the opera►tions of this Bill to be limited to inu: ye4r. He thought the measure should be considered as an experiment to be renewed annually, it necessary. Sir 3 : NEW POR I' hoped the Bill would pass in its present form. 'he gill was then read a third time and passed. JAIL FEES. Mr. BENNET moved for leave to bring in a Bill, for Regulating Jail Fees. He adverted to the Acts' passed on this subject in the '23d of Charles tI. and tae 3d ot Geo. 11. In a large number of Jailr.:, and even of county jails, no table of Fees was kept. In others the greatest irregularity prevailed. In some of these fet;; were very exorbitant, and it often hap pened that the prisoners were compelled to sell their clothes and bedding in order to pay their fees—(Hear, ham.) The Honourable Member then described the state of our jails in general, as requiring regulation and improvement. He mentioned two in pat ticular, those of Rockingham and Halifax, in Yorkshire; the former was totall out of repair; and spirituousli quors were publicly hung tip fni sale in the fats of two Acts of Parliament; in both, the prisoners were .without fire, and almost witliont food and clothing. Sir JAMES SHAW thought it would be proper to fix the qiiantutt ot clothing, food, &c. totbe pro vided in these cases. He was apprehensive, that from the improvements about to be introduced by Parlia. Incnt nun the City of Ltndon agy might be • littifrepegst 0• 11-1. 5 17 71EMPTEFTre... meats were not aclopte with respect t 9 the jails in the vicinity of the Metropolis. .Mr. THOMFS,Qn 4tmpnted. the, sc4te in which itliny'of our prisotts,ww ai,present#owsr.to 6e kept. Leave Was, then,givep i to brink in the Bill. • PAi.ME244 . l . o4iftcr. exohani,luca fiw words with 'We. Tierney, pn4podebi We Arniy kstiniates Som Fri,day ntit to Friday se'unipt.4l-AthiMeki. * N A ' ..‘ - • I •. • Exr4A4"T-.91P-A;PszgAra4irryza. tg A 'very Iliiagreerable eitctitfletaitee has occurred within these few days;' fipms the Object of much conversation at Paris.. aisllejesty the ICSottl of Prussia, passing, through Cc;mpiegne . on his way 4 to Boulogne, was grossly insulted by a moh, far the most part military, who pelted hie carriage with stones and broke the glasses ; obliging the. King, as is re ported, to hutry out of it, and betake himself to fl;ght. This, as you may imagine, became the ground of a serious complaint to the French Government, who have seized the ringleaders, and brought thezp to trial. The French papers being still under pre cisely the same regimen as in the days of Bonaparte, we know literally nothing at Paris in the least worth knowing, except what comes through private means. You are therefore not to be surprised that this has keen excluded from the journals. • • f 4 The cause ofthe abpve outrage it would be d fli. cult to guess, if we 114 not hourly reasons for la. mentinnithe ill humour of many classes of pee* in this country. The army, it is perfectly plain and unquestionable, would prefer • a war with all the warld r td ale happiest peace that could he desired for France. The nation at large are not a little savage, because the oresent peace has kicked then back within their olcf limits—and that no step np pears to have been taken by Government to realize •! 14 'grande peitsile"- - to wit, the extension of French power over Cerriiany. You will naturally ask, are they mad enough to indulge such dreams at such a moment'? • Yes ; they are mad enough for any thing—ambitiOus and mischievous enough to commence again the wildest schemes of Bonaparte. Never, never must we hope to see France, as a nation, lay aside her spirit of con quest. EVen now they plan the ruin of Austria : I pour tep.endre une position digne de la Frince, ii faut commindr 'tar ;'—these. words I heard quoted the other day 'at dinner, by a Gentleman to whom they ware spoken. Government of Louis XVIII. has, I be lieve,' the most prudent views as to foreign affaii.s, and, certainly, the very best intentions—So much the worse for it influence over certain classes of distur bers. 1 1 . great jealoitsi is with good reason excited by the vast influx of officers from all quarters's° . I France to the metropolis. No less than three orders of die day have issued from the War Depattmenr widtin a week, enjoining all those, without exception, whO are not on duty at Paris, to repair instanter to the head quarters qf their regiments, ott pain of being dismissed the service. " The Constitutional Chatter is ft:ltch canvassed among the higher classes, and very freely censured. The King having objected to the first draught of a Constitution drawn up by Talleyrand and his col leagues, that although he admitted its principles, it WAS, as a composition, " hurried and obscure," it his been observed, that the famous " charte cpnstitu. tionelle" is only clear in stating the prerogatives of the crown, but sufficiently vague in pointing out their limitations—that even the saleguardof the whole, the vested right to national property, is very equivo. cally laid down,—and that the grand foundation of the charter itself being alleged by the King's Coun sellors to rest on the will of the Sovereign, implies an argumentative authority on his part, to revoke the instrument, or any one of its provisions, whenever he shall so think fit. ' " Whether these debates are likely to find entrance into the lower House of Legislature, we shall see bye and by. Talleyrand looks on and smiles at the sup posed indiscretions of those departments of the Mi nistry, for whose acts he well knows the public are not disposed to consider hip as responsible. He has already, credit with the nation for having infused into the original propositions to the King all the freedom which pervaded them. He leaves to the more fa voured co unsellors , especially to the Chancelloy, a most virtuoßs and hOnest man, but an old Royalist, unassolged, and uninstructed by the times, the odium of impairing his work, and re-asserting the doctrines that Houriitlied before the ievplution. " In some of their more minute and local acts, it also :appears that, either from the time, or manner of prescribing regulations, in themselves the most ex cellent and wholesome, Ministers have had to en counter no small discontent. Entering Paris on a Sunday, one was shocked at seeing all the solemnity, all the reverence, with which that sacred day ought to be clothed in every Christian country, and which distinghish it more strikingly in our own dear island than in any other part of the earth to which GOD has extended the mercies of his revelation, it shocked; disgtbted, and terrified one to see a whole people lost to the common exercises of Christianity.. 44 Neither was business relaxed, nor vicious plea.' sure restrained—nor did the mind of any one seem touched by the faintest sense of what was due to his Cocasou ; the shops all alive—the- gamilig-houies crowded—the stteets deafened with .ballad-sinors and mountebanks—the house of GOD was atone do.. serted, and the voice of Religion the only one that . WAS hot heard. Never *did the moral ruin of ono. Lion strike so cruelly on my conviction—nor the scourze of a power built on violence- afford - a more earnest proof of the relationship bilWeen liberty and virtue. As some sort 9f remedy for tl,is ;mos of evils, the Police have done, what, with all one's zeal for religious decency, it would have been much bet ter, because more effectual, to postpone—they have ordered the shops to'he shut, under heavy penalties. Tli,e murmurs of the Parisians are loud and furl. .ous.—"'Bonaparte did nothing hale so tyrannical as this." In fact, it will not make the people a bit bet ter. A good and moral example in their Rulers, both in the maxims of their government, and in their domestic. lives, would sooner or later have mitigated , n cured the mischief, and inclined the public for such a law, or made it, perhaps, unnecessary. This is ax least premature, and I am afraid may offer one more in addition to a thousand instances, how dangerous and absurd it is, even for the purest ends, to inter , fere suddenly with the usaces of a people." I. . FIRST MILITARY DIVISION. „ PARIS, JUNE 11. " A comids:rable number of Russian, Auvr:an, and Prussia:. soldiers remain, tit P's:is, in the hospitals. or to wind up th• affairs of their corps ; Officers are charged by their tespeetiei Governmears to direct the movements of these men ; these PC errs have rentined order. not to appear in public except In their • uotforna. The general commanding in Paris will not do French soldiers the injustice to believe that they could under any cir cumstastees provoke the subjects of Sovereigns with whom the Icing has signed a Peace, for the happiness of France and of the world. The army will be no more conquered in loyahy that, ii, brinery ; and If' sense evil-disposed persons, in the French 1.1,i. form, should proceed to outraxes or insult, %war& the ARO—, ttfe General commanding she place recommends all the soldier► of the Garrison and of the National Guard to apprehend them, and carry .tlsim befpre jti.y, when be promises to punish them severely. (Signed) Lieut.-Gen. Count RICARio." STRALSUND, MAY !S. Qur Gazette has published the following article . 66 Sweden had ceded Swedish Pomerania to lace Norway ; bdt the resistance which that kingdom o r . poses, subjects Sweden to the expences of 4ryning, which reqhires an indemnity. In consequence, Swe. den will keep Pomerania ; but in case it should enter into the political system of Sweden to have no posses sion on the Continent, that province may be united to the Prusfiiv: monarchy." BR rit* AND IfAMB&RCH AWLS. POPENHAcEN, MAY 41. By a Decree published to-day, all communication with Norway is prohibited under pain of death. The .crown prince of Sweden is arrived at §chonen. SCUONE/9, mNr. 3. The Regiment Royal Swedois is ow; arrived here. fn a short time all the rennten's intended for th;. part will be as,emblcd, and ready to act in concert with Generals Adlercrentz and Von E , rom againc; Norway, in case the' Norwegians shmild refuse a-. union on amicable terms with Sweden. FlkiNlirOliT, JUNE 2.. Baran Stein is expected on the sth. Letters from Vienna asrm that Austria has sold the Netherlands to England for four hundred millions of florins. A petition is said to hale been sent from &part Germany to the Ernperois - aid kings, humbly re questing that Germany -may be made completer, by the addition of Alsace and- Lorraine, the priginal country of tire Imperial Family: •= • A4E-NNA, MAY 27. Letters-ft - eel Etruria-my that Corsica is' in a very distur(ted state. ; It is believed that the English will oecupy C9csica, no fur, themselves, hut to.give it up, with tlWcon:ent - cif the Allies, to Napoleon, who i; 'Arm' wStehotzlice his pension of six millions. • Tee-Hatattrgh Correspardeat says this report is little credited.• • • • % ' J-LtP.-SIC. -MAY YI. Tb-4); arrived !!ece.. the first division of the Ru,s rsi:ins, on their r , fQrn home. BREMEN, JUNE 7. It is said that the papers relaticA to the suit jnsti. tweet against Generallfandamme are already sent to St. Petetsburgh ; and that he will perhaps be sent to work at the mines of Nerlschinsk. There are other Gentlemen very worths; to keep him company 11AMBURGH, JUNE 5. On Monday. the 7th, the Bank 'will be opined again with a capital of five millions of mares bane°. (near half a million sterling). fill fine silver that is given in will be meited'down. All business has been hitherto done in Louis-d'ors. Senators Widow arid Scottiringk are appointed city proctors, and Senators Bartils and Brunnernan proctors for the country. The Russian garrison is not above 4000 strong ; but we have a great number of ogcers. lo.—On the 4th, the birth-day of his Ma jesty the King of England was celebrated with tl.t greatest rejoicings at Sti3e. M. Mitchell, the Eng tish Consul-General of Norway, who is now here, gave a splendid entertainment, at his country-house, at which the English Captains Marshal and Banks., General Bennigsen, and all the Qtficert of distinction in the neighbourhood were preser.t. On the sth, public Thanksgivings were celebrated for the deliverance of the city. The Austrian Consul, M. Hoffer, has returned his functions. here. THI E‘ :;KING STAR. LON DON. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 18141. To-clay we have Paris Papers of Monday : their contents chiefly relate to the internal affairs of France, but we have made the following selections : PARIS, JUNE is. We are assured that the ceremony of the Corona. 'tion will take place on the 25th of August, the dAy Af. St:Louis. the ting,.it is said, will on that day k °Nue 46 new Purs•for -Vac, flied Spanish, Portuvese, and I.:ngliAz ttisopsitair ? eiricuatect Tpolopse. .On the 26.1 inst. .t ibrteidd' cpmmaridcd by Lord iirit,ygdoet : f4oqtaullan. This brifrade forms pirt iii.theialtusww,of cavalry )ielr , nging.to Mar4,3l Welilington:i3atns **Nell IS, tri• p'azs . through' France on. itt wat to England : : Lord Spuierset dined with the Matquis 4e, V4le4euve, Prefect of Montauban, and the General: commanding the Frenc.i troops. LANDWICIC, (IN NORWAY) WAY 10.. Numerous debates have taken plate in the sittings of the Piet of Eidswold, and opinions have been much divided on the question, Whether Norway CA.I man,- tain itself as an independent state ? The filal con clusion was that she might if England declared in her favour. Now, the Denlarat.on of Eitgl'and been made known'at Christians:lnd., o ld ! As w e ready know that has not been lity cm: .0)10 ; iwtorrn3- tionwa4 .at the same time, received that nine shl'pr. of the lin; were upon the point snl for stip pnetiag;by a rignrotis blockade, inn orders of the Ca binet, which' tat discuurmed. ~ " • 4.