Star. — London, England, 1814-07-15 00:00:00

PURITY OF ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. IT having been unanimously resolved, at a GE NERAL.. MEETING of the ELECTORS of WESTMIN STER, held in New Palace-yard, July 11,1814, ARTHUR WM.. RIS, Esq. High Bailiff, in the Chair, to return Lord COCHRANE to PARLIAMENT, tree of every expence to himself, the Com mittee appointed to conduct the Election hereby acquaint the Independent Electors, and Friends to Purity of Eloctioa, that bubscriptions for that purpose are received by— Mr. Samuel Brooks, Treasurer, 110, Strand. Wishart, Coventry-street. Mr. Giles, Wych-street. Mr. Rogers, 186, Oxford-street. Mr. Harding, Tothill-street,-Weatminster. • Mr. Spat ks, SBl, Oxford-Street. Mr. Dean, 1 l 1, Swallow-street. At the 13sr of the King's Arms Tavern, New Palace-yard; and at the Ciown and Anclier Tavern, Strand. HENRY BROOKS, Secretary, 110, Strand. The Election commences at 9 o'clock To-morrow Morning. MR. SHERIDAN'S LEITER. Copy of a Letter from the Right Hon. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, 10 ARTHUR MORRIS, Esq. High Bailiff of Westminster: Saville-row, Sunday Evening, July 10, 1814. Ste—Observing that you have called a meeting to-m orrow, to be held in Palace-yard, to consider of a fit person to fill up the present Vacancy in the Representation of the City of Westmin ster, and having myself received very earnest applications from numerous and independent bodies of its Inhabitant Householders, requiring that I should meet their wishes, by proposing myself as a Cacoidate take the freedom of addressing these lines to Poo, to say, that I absolutely &ethic to be put iu Nomination in opposition to Lord Coc u KAN L. send you this, my determination, without concert ur commu nication with the respectable persons, to whom I have above referred, and toward, whom, I must ever continue to owe the LIMOS t grati•tatle. I trust I need not declare, that I should have felt greatly ho noured by having been again returned the Representative of Westminster i—my tide to aspire to that distinction is simply, that, atter more than 31 years service in Parliament, I can, with out fear of successiul contradiction. assert that I never gave a Vote that was not in suvpoit of the 'I ruth of Liberty, and in Assertion of the People'. Rights : duly respecting, at the same time, the just Prerogatives of the Crown, an.: revering the Sacred Principles open winch are founded anti maintained, the glory and the eectsrity of our unrivalled Constitution. Holding these opinions, as a public man, have I hitherto sat in the House of Continuos; and never will I accept a seat there, but on the sole condition of being the master of my own vote and voice—the servaut only of my conscience. ads to the present quesatiti, which occasions your Meeting tosmorr.)w, 1 enter not into it. No man feels more the reverence due to the seats t f j . .stiee, or the canfidenee due to the verdicts of jeaits. Due under •the cis eunistmce of an expulsion from the douse of et...unions, I du not hesitate to say, that I have a de cided opts:ion, that the expelled Member bas a ri o ht to apps al to his Constituents; with a view to the rettitutiou of his seat, and the rescue of his character. _ On these grounds, Sir, I will not allow myself to Interfere with the present appeal made cis the part of Lord Cochrane, and tu which I concave him to be ao ju&tly Le adopting this determination, I bvg leave distinegy to state, than wave my claim to sulic.t the sutlia„;es of tha klectoia ut Westminster in favour of Lord Cochrane atone. J have the honour to be, Sir, withsincrra respect ani esteem, Your vs ry aireaLetit mid Lun►Sle ierv:wt, (SlowJ) aJCusRD sassstar PARLIAMENTiIItr PROCEEDINGS. • HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 14. In a Committee of Privileges (the F.arl of Lisseaten In the Chair) . Couowl were further heard, touching the claims to the Borthwick (a Scott) Peerage.—Eurther COStalderatlon deterred 1111 Tuesday next. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the friahLoan Bill, the Deeds Attestation, the Prize Mouey Reguladoss, the Irish Spirit Duties, the Irish Glass Dude., the Loan Charge, the Poor's Overseers, and.to several other Bills, mostly of a private Of local description. The Lords Coutmissionera were the Archbishop of Carve ea soar, use Loam Cuarceettoa, and the Earl of Wtsr:acia- LAND. The Earl of POWIS presented Petitions from Oswestry and *few other places, against the revival of the African Slave Trade. he Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a few Petitions to the same effect. His Lordship presented another Petition front certain :lip (MOVES and others, of one of the Northern Ports, against this Northern Lights Bill, praying to be beard by Coult as: against certain per:visions of the saute. These documents were ordered to he on the table. Earl Si ANHOPE presented a Petition front certain Insol vent Debtori in the gaol of Salisbury, prayiug relief. he Noble Earl then said he bad au Inunesise number of Petitions to pre sent upon the subject of the African Slave 'lrade, which docu ments he accordingly presented. Among them we noticed appli cations from inuoti-upon-Trent, Glastonbury,•l unbridgeW ells, Causter-le-rreet, and Ambleside. Lora HOLLAND said he had the satisfaction to hold in his band, a number of Pctitiuns on the same subject, which the Noble Lord accordingly presented. They were, as well as the foregoing Petitions, ordered to be on the table. Oa the wosidrratiou of the Report of DonLies's Divorce Bill, some conversation on the subject took place between the Earls of LAI/DC*O4LX, TA:YUOPS, LiVERPOOL, and the LOAD CMANctt.Loa, to coos:lot:nee of the first mentioned Peer hav ing proposed the introducuon of a clause, providing that the annual sum of £l5O be secured to Mrs. rtas, in quarerly payments, during the life of the Petitioner, Robert Duttetas, Esc. The amount of this provision, the Eau of LAVDtIiDALE, in the comae of the discussion, agreed to reduce to setou per an ginal. In the result, his Lord-hip agreed to withdraw the clause on this stage, to the purpose ot submitting a proposition of the kind on the third reading ot the Da The Report of the Committee was then agreed to by the , The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented a Message from the PRINCE REGENT to the House, to the fol lowing effect: " GEORGE, Pittner RFGANT. " His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the !what of his Majesty, thinks proper to inform the House of Lords, that having takes into his serious consideration the account, received by his Royal Highness, of the severe dis tresses to which the inhabitants at Germany were exposed in their persons and properties in consequence of the operations of the war, and the horrid devastations committed by the enemy under the orders of the late Ruler ot France; recommends it to the House to concur in such measures as may be necesury to enable his Royal Highness to afford such relief in addition to the voluntary contributions already subscribed towards the relief of the people of Germany, as may be sufficient to carry into effect such a laudable and benevolent purpose." His Royal Highness's most gracious Message, being read in the usual way, as as, on the motion of the Earl of LIVER POOL, ordered to be token into consideration to-morrow, and the Lords summoned. Lord GRENVILLE presented a few Petitions on the subject of the African Slave Trade. One of these was from the City of Bristol, signed, he said, by 12,455 perstos, and voted with perfect unanimity at the Meeting held for the purpose. The Petitions being re i.l pro jiwato (as the others), were ordered to lie on the table. The Glass Duties Regulation, and the Highways Bills, weer read a third time and passed. Ott the occasion of the third reading of the East India Duties Bill, The Earl of LAUDERDALE re-urged his for mer objections to the rueasure, and observed. their Lr lops were tab. --- an Acts imposog do .he nature or the extent wliiela he matt always opposed. The House should have adequate infor mation on these heads before it was called upon to concur in such a Bill. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE contended, that the Bill by no means went to impose any new duty whatever. It proceeded from some doubts arising as to the precise powers conveyed by a for. mer Act. By the Act of the 33d of the King, a power was given to the Governments in India, to impose or levy certain duties in that country: the Act of the 21st restrained the supreme Courts in In. dia from jurisdiction in matters of revenue ; and the British subjects there were liable to no other jurisdic tion. The diflizulties arising from such a state of things, were removed by the Act of the 53d, the Bill of last year ; but no new duties were in con templation, nor did the Bill now before the House impose any. The Earl of LAUDERDALE then adverted to some information relative to the subject, for which it was his intention to move. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSH IRE seemed to have no objection to the production of certain ac counts, and observed there was a great difference between duties heretofore levied, and duties to be im posed hereafter. The Earl of LAUDERDALE then notified his intention to move for the documents, to which he had referred, to-morrow. The Duke of NORFOLK presented several Peti tions against the Slave Trade, one of which was from the City of Hereford. The Marquis of LA NSDOWN presented one from a number of the I)ersons called Quakers ; as did Earl FORTESCUE from the City of Exeter, both to the some effect. The Irish Aims Bill, the French Wines Duty, the Irish Postage, the Woollen Burying, the Land Tax Commissioners Bill, and a few other Bills, were brought up from the Commons by Sir JA six.s GRAHAM, and other Members, and severally read a first time. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW returned the Apprentice 8.11, with the acquiescence of the Commons to the Amend ments made by their Lordships therein. The Land Tax Commissioners Name Bill was so ponderous a concern, that one of the Assistant Mot-- keepers was obliged to carry it up from the Bar to the table of the House. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said, he should move the second reading of the Woollen Bury ing Bull (which was ordered to be printed) to-mor row, if the prints were on the table. The High Treason Punishment Bill being re committed, The LORD CHANCELLOR referred to certain alterations which be thou lit were still necessary in the Bill ; but which. in his view of the case, would be preferably offered on the repo: t. Tho last clause was, on the motion 14 the Noble :And very Learned Lord, omitted by the :t.nunittee; and the House resuming, ordered Report to be received to-morrow. Their Lowthhipi then resolved into a Committee (the second), ou the Corruption of Blood Bill. In the cows* of sonic discussion on the subjtct, principally on the part of the Loup Cuascauou, some further amendments were made in the Bill, which were ordered to be reported to-morrow. MILLESTONC ELLCTInN BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR called the atten tion of the Hoi se to the subject of this Bill, of which, in the very advanced period of the Session, lie deemed it impossible their Lordships could properly finish the discussion. The subject was one of peculiar impor tance, one deserving of the most serious and deliberate consideration, and lie was most anxious, from a due examination, that they should get at the bottom of the actual grounds of the Bill. He thought an exa mination of evidence could not be advantageously gone into that Session : besides, such an examination In a future Session may be necessary, as another Bill, tar from being precisely the same as the present, may, in the next Session, be sent up to them by the Commons, and the present Bill, it seemed to be generally allowed, must be materially altered, be fore they could consistently pass it. Under these circumstances, he would move, that the Bill be read a second time that day two months, with a view of entering fully into the subject in another Session. Lord GRENVILLE declared his concurrence with what fell from the Noble and Learned Lord, and observed he was fi iendly to the principle of such proiided sufficient grounds were laid for such a parliamentary interposition. Of the present mea sure he was utterly ignorant, save from general re port, and he hoped they would enter into the consi. aeration of its merits in the next Session fully and de. liberately ; and for which postponement, he believed, the argument of the Noble and Learned Lord, against the examination of evidence in the rresent very advanced period of the Session, was unanswer able, as they could not anticipate precisely in what fOrm a Bill upon the subject would come before them in another Session. The question was then put, and the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR agreed to, which disposes of the Bill for the present Session. The White Herring Fishery Bill passed through a Committee, and was reported. The remaining Bills being respectively forwarded, the House adjourned till to-morrow. Lor4hhips were about to pass ; ties, with. ut either know•int; ti prii.upte to THE PRINCESS OF WALE& Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Princess of Wales's Annuity Bill. The Order of the Day was read accordingly. Mr. TIERNEY said that he felt it necessary to trouble the House with a few observations upon this measure; but he begged to premise his remarks, by stating, that in offering them he did not act either with the knots ledge or the Princes of Wales, or after consulting with any of the G:3ltlemen who had been accustomed to advise her Royal Highness His - observations proceeded entirely from his own view of the subject.—He was much surprised at the en actments of the Bill before the House : the preamble stated, that it was to enable his Majesty to seta.: an annuity upon the Princess of ‘Vales. In framing it, the Noble Lord was authorized to go no further thanl he was warranted by the terms of the Resolution of the House, augmenting the income of the Princess of Wales; bur the whole of this measure, two clauses excepted, relAted entirely to transactions of the year 1809, regarding the arrangement then made between the Prince and Princess of Wales. What relation they had to the present Bill, Mr. Tierney could not understand. The Bill, among Other things, recited, that the Prince Regent was not, in future, to be lia ble to any of the debts of the Princess of Wales.-- Whether a provision, declaring, that 66 her Royal Highness was under no legal obligation to pay those debts," was sound law, Mr. Tierney was not compe tent to decide ; but it did seem as if the greater part of the Bill had been framed to devise means to pre vent any liability by the Prince Regent. The main objection he had to it was, that the Bill dealt most unfairly by her Royal Highness, and perverted to the most invidious purposes the arrangement of 1809. One of the Papers brought down by the Noble Lord purported to be an agreement between the Prince and Princess of Wales. It appeared that in 1809 the creditors of the Princess of Wales represented to Mr. Perceval and the Duke of Portland, that her Royal Highness was indebted to them in the sum of 5E49,000, which circumstance Mr. Perceval stated the Prince Regent, who took upon himseil the pay ment of that amount. In order, however, to guard himself against future demands, he proposed to ob tain the sanction of an Act of Parliament, or of an Order in Council to the citric effect. Of the list, he was informed, that it was not customary to make such a use ; and to the first, that it was not then convcaient to resort, since it was 11 1 1 L!eerned expe dient to come to Parliament at that time. The House would bear this circumstance in mind, be. cause it now was the duty of the Noble Lord to shew why it was now more expedient and fit to resort to Parliament than at the former period. What he (Mr. Tierney) contended was, that nothing new had occurred to justify such a proceeding. Since the Prince Regent could be provided with neither or these safeguards, a paper was signed by the parties, which augmented the income of the Princess of Wales £5OOO, and was deemed, under the sanction of his Majesty, adequate to the pm [Joie which was given in another document which was laid upon the table. lie then read to the House an extract from this last document, stating, that such a guarantee was ex tremely reasonable, and providing, that if the Prin. ccss of Wales should again be found to hare incur. v , to Parliament, praying th at Regent from the payment of those debts. Now he wou ld beapplication,ask what had happened should to Parliament for any ed was to have been made pear , since 1809 that could subject the Princess to the pm, visions of the present Bill ? No enactment to secure the Prince of Wales from debts debts which she )g happened —o had refused to discharge. Had this , , contracted by the Princess, unless she ex ce ed e d the income settled on her, or contracted due at the time out of her income, a debt of 04600, was it not herd, that at the of the agreement. And far from it, the Princess of Wales had disch arged , to do an act of that tkey were obliged' to provide some security - fur the debts of the PrincetF, ltiibnelerawlitbye.ath the e should mislead m w i a sl s e p ad re t f h e e s6 c in o g untry into a . belief the Prince of Wales against and this, while at the same time, instead of asking because her word or signature WAS not sufficient ? for money, the Princess had been the first of the Royal Family se:xi bad refused mousy—(hear 1) — The Noble Led ( Lord Castlereagh) seemed to treat this matter with great levity; but the Paper which was before the House was drawn u, only becautt his Majesty would not consent to bring the Princess before t h e Parliament in 1809, while now she was eroueht before Parliament as a person who had vio -1 :ted her word. He had thus stated his opinion on the second reading, wet: the intention to go further into the subject in the Committee. What he at pre sent wanted to know—Did the Noble Lord (Castle: reagh) say that the Princess of Wales had departed from the agreement of ISO 9, to bring her before Par. dement as a person who had exceeded her income ? If on this be could give him (Mr. Tierney) satisfac. don, he should give him no further trouble, because if the Noble Lou Lotti could prove that the Princess had ever exceeded her income since the agreement of 1809, he should give him no further trouble. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that be had on a former night distinctly disclaimed any belief that the Princess had incurred any debts, and on that account he bad not thought it necessary to put her Royal Highness's proposed income under the regulations to which the income of some other branches of the , Royal Family had been placed under. It was for reasons perfectly distinct that he had proposed the Bill as it stood. It was said that the title covered nothing but a grant of money to the Princess, and that the Resolutions of the Committee went only to this extent. But he contended it was naturally open to Parl ament, in granting any money, to accompany it with any regulations which it might think fit.— As to the title merely it would be open to the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) in the Com. mince to propose an amendment, so that on the technical ground nothing more could be sail. It had been said that the papers %%Lich had been laid before the House had nothing to do with th e gr a n t to th e I Princess. lie (Lord Castlereagh) apprehended that they had most materially to do wall the grant, for it would have been a reasonable ground of coinpla'int if the Reuse had not been informed of Vie incompe tency; of the Princess's income, before any addition to it was proposed. It was also most proper on ac. count of the other provisions in sne Bill to know what income the Princess derived from the Prince of Wales. As to the agreement of 1809, the only motive why it had not at that time been thought it to come to Parliament (though a Perliamentary enactment even then was thought the only meesere which would be perfectly satisfactery) VIA`, that it was deeris i ed most expedient, if it could be avoided, that the concerns c the Royai Family should not at all be entered into by Parliament. And as the Prince of Weirs at that time had found means to pay the debts contracted by the Princess, and to in. crease her income, an application of the kind was unnecessary. The Right lion. Gentleman i'ad said that the Paper stated that tile Prince of \Vales was not liaole to the debts of the Princes. As a general principle, the contrary was stated in the Papers ; but for the debts to the amount of £49.000. at that time owing by the Princess, it was true that he was not liable, because the creditors had not complied with the regulations elthe Act 011 ) 411i:emetic respect ing the PI lace's revenue. But as the Prince was prospectively liable, it was then thought proper that p he should be secured against any fresh debts. But, it was said by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tier ney) why make a provision of that kind at present,but to throw a reflection on the Princess ? The obvious answer was, that by the Bill before the House a total change was effected in the Princess of Wales's income. The income of the Princess, or any part of it, was not now at the discretion of the Prince Regent, but it had been thought proper to give the whole income out of the Consotideted Fund, and to take from the' Prince the 1e12,000 a year, which he was in the habit of pay. ing, to the Princess. At present, therefore, the stele of the case was very different from that in which it stood under the agreement between the parties. Por, at that time, though the creditors of the Princess might !Live made their claims legal chins of the Prince, by complying with the regulations of the Act of Parliament, yet not only might the Penne luxe secured himself prospectively by an application to 3 Parliament, but he had in his power the rieetareo a • • year, from whence he could deduct the debts con. eacted by the Princess, for which he was made Gable. f —( Hear, hear.)—As the Bill before the House took trout the Prince all dominion over the Princess's re. • venue, to makeitwas any but justl l i a ctaitm on that thePrince of hisssshonld enabled th htFt Rt' al H viieois i isr g iicrt h ilegi n yw e tiai s lioi s leru . eHnidda: S tgb ecuuhonrcnahtelovsjeasiuyinisevtedieci dep e nden t i ren a t o c to t h e o rhpneudtot imputation case ittebe between ihtnw nat u re, w .tie e a nch s e u pst oi n srh l , e y nui there was no dependence on her part. The %h . . Hon. Gentleman (Mr. 'Tierney) might have knowe„ though not admitted to that intimacy with her !toy Highness to which some other !Avower: were admit ted, that the Princess felt no such apprehensions on t n w: felt ta e ms t i c :i cae i c esftnohpesral exist dhbipaseindttert not, until mentioned public s ni s n ln it t hhi e t o r a ee te i t hadr t o le d ig u(uv t . i gw ;: i o hst ; ch b thent; d. repugnance n m k: erei thattg (Lord n nah t t e tcn m jc eH a C ie n t dn) ) e ,i. d n i reptigtimice to sers in that e h d er m ho ea n s o n u r r e . ineis ki n e s h is o te p i e tt d a t l i t i h ti h u e .o r u r i letter she sta te d t h at t h ere was nothing in the propose Aol-. d gh r tb el t ie h v e e r ra the n k it ' 1 4 1; 1 11 dr i Hon. Gentleman from the tear lie entertained. Mr. TIF.RNEY said, that the Noble Lord had rot HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Message from the Lords desired the attendance of the House to hear the Royal Assent given to several Public and Private Bills. The Speaker and some other Members attended accordingly, and en his return, communicated the titles of the Bills. Mr. PEEL presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of Dublin, against the Bill for paving that City. He observed, that however extraordinary it might seem, the Petitioners considered the improvement of their City, in this respect, to be a grievance, and had stated in the Petition, that the Bill would be t:estruc live to the lives o► thousands! He should, however, move that it lie on the Table, which was agreed to. he House then went into Committees on the Irish House-tax Repeal, the Irish 4111534 i. Redress, the Irish Batik Restriction, the Board of Works, the :sea Insurance, the Spoiled Stamps, the Scotch University Paper Drawback, Wi.; the Amendments in which were agt cod to, and the Report► ordered to be received to-morrow. The Committee on the Irish illicit Distillation Bill was post poned till Monday. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed rte India Ships, Portugal Contribution, Ili;la Stamp Luaus, and Loan 14 cc:ideation Bilk. The Irish Arms, Irish Revenue Regulations, Land Tax Corn. missitater. Names, tad Burying iu Woollen Bath were seve;4ly read a third time and p.l,.ed. A Bill fur aaieu•ling the Act to Regulate the Pill/ere of hack ney Coaahts, waa broug!it 4) and read a first time. The SPEAKER announced the receipt of a Mes sage from..his Royal Highness the PUINCE REGENT, to the following purport : " G. P. R.—The Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, having taken into consideration the severe distresses and sufferings of the people of scveral parts of Germany, in consequence of the devastations of the war, and the atrocities committed during the invaion of that count!) , by the late Ruler of France; recommend. to his faithful Commons to afford such pecuniary aid as may assist in giving them suitable Relief." The Message, on the motion of the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, was referred to a Committee of Supply. A great number of Petitions were presented, rela tive to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Sir S. ROMILLY, on presenting one of them from Water ford, took occasion to observe, that it was the first Petition presented from Ireland on the subject, and was signed by Catholics, Quakers, and persons of all religious persuasions. This and the others were re. spectively ordered to be received and lie on the Table. IRISH I'ItESERVATION or PLACE BILL. On the Order of the Day being moved by Mr. PEEL for the third reading of this Bill, that Right Hon. Gentleman observed, that having received se veral communications complaining of what was sup posed to be the intention of Government, in selecting Magistrates and Special Constables under the Act, ircm the districts in a state of disturbance, he thought it proper to say, that these selections wi.uld, as far as possible, be made from amongst persons who would have no local interests in the places. Respect ing the Magistrates, none but Gentlemen of high and undisputed character would be appointed ; and it WAS thought that no persons would be more proper for special constables, than soldiers . who had been em ployed in militia regiments, and oho bad, on all oc casions, conducted themselves with temper and mo deration. He had a clause in his hand to introduce to this effect. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY entirely concurred in the propriety of what had been communicated by the Right Hon. Gentleman ; but he trusted that the sub ject would yet receive all due and deliberate cor.►i deration. Mr. PEEL in reply, observed, that one mistaken idea which had arisen was, that it was intended to confine the employment of special constables to far mers' sons in the vicinity of disturbed districts, which was not the intention of Government. The appoint ment of these constables would be w!th the Juries, as meal. But respecting the Police Establishment in general, be intended, early in the next Session, le bring forward a measure which should place it on a much better footing than it stands at present i but now he was only desirous of providing a temporary remedy ; and it would be seen, on the reading of the clause, that it vras to enable five Magistrates to swear in a sufficient number of constables for extraordinary occasions, who were to serve without any salary. Alter a few words horn Mr. J. P. Grant and Sir H. Parnell, who severally hoped that the measure would not be delayed to a law period of the next Session, Mr. Peel rejoined, that there would be nu 'thing to prevent it from having an early considera tion.—The clause was then read and inserted, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.