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r 1 4 re r tioss ‘ irente tehi — tottteser - " - 44-4 - & - gd. of this vetoes tag it * suns anise, at £551. es of the alms wee td reeoverstes: and the costs of t. .were taxed at . I Nut eveey one of these actions unavoidably brought, bases the ready by • action only one WI open by law for those wale property The Home must be satisfied that so moostroos Called lousily for redress; and with the permission of tn. _ be would submit a MB, giving the Quarter Sessions jualielim over causes wherein the sa Honkt to be reentered adlinin ceed twenty pounds. The Member accerifingly mad fer . knee to briag io seek a Bfil. Mr. R. W I LBRAHA M said, be could mama the Hato.. intent of the Hon. Mover as far as regarded the penal anoint of the law expenses compared with the sum to be esoomenile--' This evil had been so deeply felt In the county of liasentor tbat ft was contemplated by the Bench of Magistrates to notion Mot lMr. Wilbraham) to bring in a BM similar to that mite mooed ha' ie was happy the subject bad been takers up by the Finallsootar. Mr. SCARLETT approved of the ; batthas& it Wm' not necessary to confine its effect to nay redoubt sum. The mode of recovery might be amplified goondly, without tang away the principle upon which the preen* law an foitded.— All that the law required was that the right of the personale. ing the remedy should be established by a Jury. Mr. LOCKHART highly approved of the 1/M e and.trasted ft would be only a precedent for others. The prow* node .1 administering justice was disgraceful to a civillemi em entry i rd be trusted the subject would be taken up by the H 0..,. Leave was then given to bring in the BM. SCOTCH JUST LAW.% Mr. KENNEDY brought forward his p d meta r.. 'pectins the present mode of conducting cabal procadinp in Scotland with reference to Juries. If, bowman, the Learned Lord opposite would introduce the submit lath the alum he was about to propose, he (Mr. K.) would gram Ms modem. The LORD ADVOCATE said, he so widely darid el* nion from the Hon. Member upon the subject in rpteansa, that be thought it would be more advisable for the Hen. to proceed with his motion. Mr. KENNEDY reared. He would shortly inform the House the present state of the Criminal Law of Scotland.— The chief Criminal Court was the High Court of Jusdclary, and the Members of this Court held Circuits twice a year. The Court next in importance was the Sheriff's Court. The Sheriff was, in Scotland, a Judge appointed by the Crown, and selected from the Bar. He decided many civil and some criminal cases, and in others of the latter description he sent the accused to trial, his adjudication bring in the nature of the finding of a Grand Jury. The June was in Scotland composed of fifteen persons, and a majority decided the question. These fifteen were selected from forty-five summoned for the purpose, and the selection was made by the presiding Judge. The prisoner bad not the right pf challenge which was given by the English law. He could only offer certain legal defined exceptions to any Juror to whom he objected, and the presiding Judge decided upon those exceptions. The Bill he proposed was principally for giving the prisoner the right of challenge, and had been mo delled upon the measure lately adopted for extending the Trial by Jury in Scotland to civil cases. That measure was intended, in the first instance, to be merely temporary; but the experi owe of four years had shewn its beneficial effects, and it was made permanent. The Honourable Member com plained that much prejudice bad been excited against him because he had brought the present subject forward, and he, therefore, trusted that be should be alloy/ad to offer himself again to the notice of the Haus.: should any observations be made which might in hi; opinion render it necessary for him to de so. .The Honour *isle Member then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the present mode of proceeding on Trials by Jury on Criminal Charges in Scotland. The LORD ADVOCATE said, he should not oppose the motion, but he trusted the house would not come to any °pi vim on the subject until the question should come on for the second reading of the 13111. He pledged himself to prove to the sa isfection of the House that the measure was uncalled-for =- necessary, and unwise . — Leave was given to bring in the Bill. Sir M. W. RI DLEY withdrew his intended motion far Tioursoay next, in cons. queuce of the vote to which the House 16.4 come the other night respecting the reduction of two Lords of the Admiralty. As llinisuffs intended to act .upon that vote, it was unnecessary for kim to press his motion. Mr. HUME, in consequence of the suggestion of the Noble Marquis, withdrew his notice of motion fur several Returns connected with the Consolidated Fund, and expressed his in. tention to wait for the proposed measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—The Honourable Member then presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of the County of Lancaster, in favour of Mr. Hunt, which, after a few observations from Mr. Hume in support of it, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. W. COURTEXAY moved for the appointment of a Committee to examine the Prison Laws. The necessity of a general code of Prison regulations was, he believed, generally admitted. He should move merely for the re-appointment of the Committee which sat last year, with the exception of the addition of one name, that of the Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department. The labour of the Committee would be directed in a great degree towards the devising of some mea sure which would be submitted for the approbation of the house. The Hon. Member then moved fur the appointment of the Committee; and the motion, after a few words from Mr. WAIST, was agreed to. The LORD ADVOCATE moved for leave to bring in a Bill respecting the law of naturalization in Scotland. The Learned Lord stated that the Bill was a continuation of a former measure, and that its continuance was occasioned by a late decl aim of the Court of Session. After a few words from Mr. Loewe, leave was given to bring in the Bill. Lord NORMANBY gave notice that, on Wednesday, the 13th inst. he should submit to the House a motion connected with the office of Joint Paymaster -General. Mr. SCARLETT presented a Petition from the Land Owners near Peterborough, complaining of Agricultural Duo trees, which the Petitioners attributed to taxation. They stated that they bad been unwilling to trouble Parliament with their complaints, in the full expectation that Ministers would have proposed an adequate remedy. The remedy which Ministers bad proposed the Petitioners conceived to be altogether ineffec tual, and in these sentiments be fully concurred. He thought the principal cause of the present distress was the resumption of cash payments. Indeed, he thought the distress was a ne cessary consequence of that measure. The argument of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Pormiington, was, that the re sereptios of cash payments had not made a difference of mote than S per cent. Even this rate upon a revenue of sixty mil lions amounted to one million ; but it was his (Mr. Searktes) opivion that the measure in question, with the addition of the three millions of new taxes imposed since the resumption, made * difference of at least nine millions. It followed that, as the taxes were net nominally affected by the currency, they ab sorbed a greater quantity than usual of the produce of the soil. —He could not conceive that abundant production could be a cause of real dist:els e though it might be one of low prices. If the produce of the soil were divided into different chan eels, Ind If the Government received its taxes in • share of this produce, the Government, as well as each other receiver of 1 i ts e ve , wo uld be the better for receiving a larger quantity than was customary. Abundance, he never would believe, could muse poverty; and the alteration of the currency had no other effect than that of giving .to Government a larger share of the produce. Mr. RICARDO said, that in the ease put by Ms Hon. and Learned Friend, It was true each person received a larger share than usual ; but his Hon. and Learned Friend went no further. The depreciation in the value of the surplus or.- metaled distress, because there was sot any demand for R— ile admitted that the resumption of cash payments had caused a partial alteration ; but, in his oomeienee, be believed that - increase of quantity was the principal cause of the pre- Mar ). PEEL gave notice that, on Thursday, the 14th last. he move for the reeppolounent of a Committee to inquire she Ponce of the Metropolis. REPORT OF IRS COMMITTER OP SUPPLY. BROGDEN brought up the Report of tb• Committee of Supply. On the first Resolution being read, that there be al lowed for his Majesty's Land Service at home and abroad, 68,802 men from the 25th of December, 1821, the 24th of December, l 822, both inclusive, being days thr 4 .of hls Majesty's ) u =tbli which he had taken of ibis great q *-114'was not anxious to prevent troops from bebtr ich sent to Ireland to put an end to the disturbances stra taw existed there—quite the contrarYi he wished those disturb. anon to be put down with alispeed, whatevermight be the original causes of them. The anlY • differeoce which existed between himself and the members of his Majesty's Government was, ibis be chOught that there were already in Ireland troops enough to effect that object. The way he made that assertion out was this - -.By the estimates that had bebn resented to the House, it appeared that in Ireland there were 18,397 men, and in England, including reliefs, there were 22,462 men, making a total of 40,869 men.— There were also hree Veteran Battalions, which in creased that total to 48,550 men. Now he contended that such a number of men, exclusive of the assistance to be derived from the Artillery, who amounted to 7000 men, from the Marines, who amounted to 8000 men, and from the troops in the colonies, exclusive of the East Indies, who amounted to 27,943 men more, was more than sufficient to quell the disturbance's now raging in Ireland.„ The Noble Lord in his statement had omitted to take any notice of the Ar tillery; Marines, and Veteran Battalions, and had stated the amount of the forces at home and in the co lonies at 68,802 men. Now, he maintained, upon the declaration of the Noble Marquis' opposite, that as Marines were performing the duty of tegular sol diers in the Mediterranean, and the Veteran 13sittalions the same at home, they ought to be included in future with the Artillery in the account of the regular Army ; and in that case the military force of the country would amount .to 86.493 men, instead of 68,802 Dim as stated by the Noble Lord. From that somber he wished to take ten thousand men,- and so reduce it to 76,495 men. That was the extent of the proposition he had made, and for making it he had been taunted with inconsistency by Honourable Gentlemen opposite. (Load cries of Hear,hear, hear). e maintained that upon the necessity of reducing the Army he had always been consistent, as he had endeavoured to convince the House by his argument of last night. The Noble Marquis opposite had said that any saving, however small, that could be made without detriment to the public service, ought to be made without delay. Now lie had kept that declara tion of the Noble Marquis continually in his view ; and upon seeing that the expenses of the Army in the year 1822 amounted to between seven and eight mil lions, according to the Noble Lord's own - figures, whilst in the year 1792 they did not amount to more than £2,331,149, he had become convinced that the difference of expenditure in the two years was greater than ought to be permitted. He had there/cue pro posed a reduction of ten thousand men, by which a, saving of half a million would be gained to the coun try. The Right Hon. Gentleman, who was Under Secretary for the Colonial Department, had called the saving which he had proposed a petty, paltry saving, and had implored the House upon that ac count to reject it with disdain—(Hear, hear,fions the Opposition benches).—He did not know whether the being a few days in office had produced such an effect upon the Right Hon. Gentleman as to make him conceive the saving of half a million a petty paltry saving ; but he did know this, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had told the House that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, in his petty paltry public sav ings, wished to neglect the service of the country.— Now he (Mr. Hume) trusted that no proposition which he had ever made was deserving of the disdain of the House. Indeed, be thought that the term " disdain" was an improper term for one Member of Parliament to use of another ; and if it were used for the purpose of deterring him from examining the financial arrangements of the country, he treated it with that contempt which he trusted that lie should always apply to such propositions as talked of half a million as a petty paltry saving—(Hear, hear). — Having said this muth to the Right Honourable Under Secretary, he must now express a hope that the Honourable Member for Liverpool was in his place, as he had a word or two to say to him regard ing the insinuations which he had thrown out at the same time against his (Mr. Hume's) profession. As the Honourable Member was not present, he should abstain from the observations which he should have otherwise made, unfair as he thought it to be for one Member to allude to the private history or character of another. "My profession," continued Mr. Hume, " is as well known as that of the gallant General ; and if I were to ask him what part of his professional conduct got him the regiment which he now has the honour to command, he would, perhaps, find more difficulty in answering the question than I should, were he to ask me to what measures 'my success in lite was owing I—(Loud cheers from the Ministerial Benches, re. echoed by the Opposition). Hon. Gentle men may cheer as much as .they please ; but when allusions are made to the private history and private circumstances of any Member, it is done for some mean, improper purpose, and not from a sense of public duty"—(Hear, hear). He was sorry to say that there were several Gentlemen on his side of ;be House who viewed a standing army with as much delicacy as the Honourable Gentlemen opposite, and who•were inclined to look upon it as the Noble Mar quis (lid, as the best protector of our rights and liberties. He would, however, ask those Honourable Gentlemen whether, if 58,0Q0 men were a sufficient force for the country in 1792, 76,000 men were not sufficient in 1822? He had said nothing of the con siderable increase which had taken place since the former period in the number of our Militia Regi ments, • and our Volunteer and Yeomanry Corps, which at present consisted of 151,258, ready to be called out upon any emergency, independent of the colonial troops at Ceylon and the Cape, which amounted to 3000 or 4000 men more. He ad said nothing upon that subject, because he wished die House clearly to understand that his motion had tn. ferenee to no other matter than to the troops of the line. After this statement, be thought %bathe hid said enough to convince the House that 76,498 am would be sufficient for the service of the year. He would not dictate to Ministers what particulat lave, , •ad he mint, abet the vote etb r iCh ihe Zit Lord onielite had taken for 68,80: bet W heeMitaised was In reality for $6,493 men, • should be filth shed by 10,000 men, or that 58,802 men only should be voted for the stroke of the year. Mr.WILMOT thought that the Han. 211 ember fee Aberdeen would have done better if he had made tbe speech with which he had that evening favoured the Haile, on a former evening in. the Committee, and when the Hon. MeMber for Liverpool was pre , sent to repel the attack which had been made upon him—(Lord cheers front the Ministerial benches). — Re begged leave most distinctly to assert, that he had never made use of the expressions sa petty, paltry savings," whatever might appear to the contrary in those historical fragments of which they had recently heard so much. Neither had he said that the propo sition of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen ought to be rejected with disdain. He would spew Hon. Gentlemen, by a repetition of what he did say, that he could not have used any such language. The Hon. Member for Aberdeen had said that the reduc tion effected in the Colonies did not exceed 4.00 men. —Now he had sbewn that the forces in the Colonies last year amounted to 32,467; and in the present year to 27,943, which showed a redaction of from 3,000 to 4,000 men. He had then said, that if the Hon. Member took no more care in his other financial as sertions than he had done in that which he had ex posed, he should feel it right to reject his proposi tions in futu:e with disdain. Mr. HUME had only to appeal to his Hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury, to prove that he had not been singular in his misconception of what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman. He had taken notice of the expressions at the time they were used, and, if he had not felt himself precluded from tres passing on the attention of the House at midnight to reply to them, he should certainly have replied to them at the time. The Hon. Member had certainly appeared to him to make use of the expressions which he had attributed to him; whether they were so at tributed to him in the historical fragments of the day, as they were called, he (Mr. Hume) could not say, as he had not seen any of them that day. With regard to the mistake, as the Hon. Gentleman had stated how it occurred, he should not say a word upon it. ;dr. Hume then proceeded to explain how the mistake, which he allowed that he had made re garding the amount of the reductions in the for:es in' the Colonies, had arisen : it was from having found the forces differently stated in two different Papers ; in the one they were only stated rank and file; in the other, their Qfficers were also included. He was anxious to assure the House that be had never made any statement without deliberation, and that the mis take which had been pointed out had no effect upon his general statements. The SPEAKER then put Mr. Hume's Amendment from the Chair, which was negatived without a divi sion.—The other Resolutions in the Report were then agreed to. the inc I seat dG Mr. r should into I,lx p 4r Coral Oa lowed absoa to ;he I/45 4 et& " ins M "eche or suservin ited the t rtgi v he now to pert A that adios . Ith he aali Wand 01111111 tioos bad ision • regardieg the largeimo skis was the statsdibg army. As there Wi Was le j a " d * between his statements arid those a a ircavasaa • lof t h e Howe ulster:, he was very anxious to eq . . . _ .___ ...i. .1.2- --eV ma. MALT TAX. On the motion of Mr. Lusenuarox the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Annual M alt Tax Rill, in which the several Reiolutions were agreed to, after a few words from Mr. Mosicx and Mr. LUSHINGTON. The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. MISCELLANEOUS. The LORD ADVOCATR of SCOTLAND brought in the Bill to prevent the naturalization of Aliens in Scotland, which was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading on Thursday next. On the motion of Sir Josnr Newroar Accounts were ordered of all Sums assessed by Grand Juries in Ireland, for Present ments during the last seven years, and the defalcations on the part of Collectors, with the amount recovered from their sureties during the same period, distinguishing each year. Mr. L USH I NG TON brought in the Receivers-General of the Land Tax Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading on Friday.—The House then Adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. The following is an accurate Copy of the State ments made on Monday night, by Lord PA LUERSTON, in the House of Commons: Charge Decrease. 5e499,1117 13,571 12,009 9,294 9,153 3,253 Charge Increase. On Land Forces (12,304 men) - Staff - - - - Public Departments - - Medicines - . . Volunteers ,• - - Military College - - Army Pay to General Officers - Garrisons - . - FuU Pay to Raked Officers - • Half-Pay • • - - Foreign Half-Pay '- -6,39 S In-Pensioners of Cbehea and ItUrnaioham 6,855 Out-Pensioners - - - Military Asylum - - - Widows' Pensions - Compassionate List, Bounty War rants, and Pensions for Wounds Reduced Adjutants of Local Militia transferred to Half-Pay Estimate Superannuation Allowances Exchequer Fees - .. Veteraii Battalions (910 i men) - 6,076 690 15,954 51,640 19,819 2,000 67,144 3,761 Total, as compared with Estimate of 1821, a Reduction of 21,407 men, and "557,849. Estimate of Peace Establishment of the Army made by the Finance Committee in 1817, including the y and Pensions of the Army of Occupa tion in France - ie8,760,000 - - - °urge for is 22. OnMarks likissordinazies lisnacks - Onsinissariat • 5e6,108,118 • 950,000 - 244,400 443,940 7,744,358 - Decrease Is 1822 - - £1,013,644 T*l Red:mhos ea Aral Votes tar meg, as compared with UM, Muni aside the additional chary for Ireland, on ao aunt of the= le illitirionneee is that country : Onlissrise, .1146,000 for biahlreontanry, z=neated by distoshenese - - £578,1148 - - - - - 100,000 Oeptimhemilot - - ddono Bariacks - - - - - 18,900 A 762,678 Add 2200,000 expected to be re pai d front the last ladia Compaq, am enema of &druidag, kn. Total - . woo* .19112,67 a illte foliewhig Genderoen - voted in the minority el SIN on Meadow sight s for nduring the Array according to Wind Dery 's Inneedatenci Price Richard ; Fein, J. H. H.; Moe, ftrin ; Wards. John SusseN Lord John ; Stuart. lord Jewel Ph ,0. R. - 'LONDON. irr A MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of NAVY FIVE PER CENTS will be held at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, TO-MORROW (Thursday, the 7th March), at Twelve o'Clock. The Chair will be taken at One precisely. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1622 THE FUNDS. STOCK EX CHA NG I?, ONE'O'CLOCK. The applications-of dissentients this morning have been but very few at the Sank, and little interest appears now to exist upon the subject. Very little business has been doing this morn ing, and Consols are steady at 78f 79 for money, and 79/ far the Account. CURRENT PRICES OF STOCKS 3 per Cent. Consols 78 7 / 8 79 5 per Cent. 102% s/s India Bonds 435. 455. pre. • South Sea Stock 89 Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, Is. Ss. pre. Ditto small Is. 4s. pre. Consols for Acct. 79 1 / 1 Vs 14. The myrmidons of the Bridge-street AssociaCcn are rejoicing that after defeats which have covered them with disgrace, though it appears not with shame, they have succeeded in convicting some of the miserable agents of that wretched man CARGILL We envy not the feelings of men who can triumy h in condemning to two years imprisonment men who, in the despair of poverty and want, had consented to obtain a precarious livelihood by selling libellous pamphlets: but at what hazard they certainly could not have contemplated. We feel as much disgust at blasphemy and libel as the Bridge-street Association can possibly do (we say nothing of their agents, for they are merely labouring in their vocation), but we would not only have the laws administered in mercy, bet we would also have the forms, as well as the spirit of the Courts of Justice kept inviolate. How far this has been done in the recent trials is a matter of doubt at least. Was it decent, we would ask, to try three men successively by the same Jury? Was it decent that a Judge should permit one Counsel to eulogize the Constitutional Association, and vindicate its proceedings, and the moment that the Counsel for the prisoner proceeded to remark on the conduct of the Association, that he should be interrupted and put down by personal insult? Was it proper to tell a Jury, that a Counsel in attempting, under such disadvantages, honestly to defend his client, had completely identified himself with the principles of the work, the sale of which, by the prisoner at the bar, was then the subject of the proceedings before the Court ? Was it just, we would ask, in a presiding Judge, when charging the Jury, to tell them that, on a former day, they had convicted a prisoner for a similar offence, and that, to be consistent, they must then return a verdict of guilty ; but if they had, since the day before, met with reason to alter their minds,which the Court had not, they would find a verdict of acquittal ? The decisions of Courts of Justice, to ensure respect, should, like CaliAleB wife, not only be from guilt, but even unsuspected. The trial by Jury, the strong est protection and barrier against acts of oppression, ought to be watched with the utmost jealousy, and the slightest attempt'to violate it, or even to innovate upon its sacred character, manfully misted. The a the new Regulations and uttes•on Import and Er. ppoor~ Trade, the operation of which Was to commence from the Ist of January, 1822. All articles not es. pressed in the printed list are to pay a duty of 15 per ceate.—quieksilver, timber, agricultural implements, books, tea. only a duty of 5. per eent.—:paints, (bugs, spices, gunpowder,. arms, ate. 10 per cent —sugar, coffee, cocoa, provision's, &c. 20 per cent—furniture, saddles, &c. 25-per cent-brandies, 30 per cent—. on hats, 3 dollars each. The warehouse duty• is reduced to one rial per package. Ox hides are to ply an esport duty of one rial each, and horse hides half a rial ; and ail other productions to•pay 4 per cent. silver coin 2 per cent, and gold one. Goods re-shipped in bond to pay 2 per tent—The duties are to be calculated on the while: sale market prices.. From the above it would appear that the general charge on foreign imported . goods is 15 per cent. ♦ letter dated ,Puebla (kingdom of Mexico), No vember 30, was 'received yesterday, which Says -46 This country; after hating rapidly effected a revo lution, is now exposed to the greater danger of in ternal. discord. There exist three distinct parties, each solicitous to establish a different form of Go vernment. The first seeks to establish a Republic ; the second an Empire, governed by an European Prince; and the third an Empire, with the General iii -Chief, Iturbide, at its head. Meanwhile specie is extremely scarce, and the troops ill paid. The Pro. visional Government has declared a free trade with all countries." RIO DE JANEIRO, DECEMBER 12. Efforts are making to induce the Prince Regent to remain in Brazil. An Address to him to that effect is in circulation to obtain signatures, and set ei al per sons who have, set down then names have expre sed their willingness to subscribe large sums of moot) to enable him to support his rank with suitable state.— The Prince•has declared his intention, at ali e.cnts, not to quit till the accouclement of the Pi ince s, s.liich is expected in March. The electors of the pro% ince 'of Minas, seeing the little consideration paid b) the Cortes to the Brazilian Deputies, have requested theirs not to repair to Lisbon—a presage that Brazil cannot continue much longer to be attached to Portugal. IHE hI'ENINU STAR.