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N.L , I F~ - P4RI.I4MENTARY PROCEEDINGS. 1 HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 7. The Loan Citasrusmon sat at ten o'clock in the morning to he:r Appeals. Judgment was confirmed in the case of " Whalley v. Whal ley," in which an Appeal bad been made from the decision of the late Master of the Rolls. The ATTONNIT-GIDIZIAL and Mr. ADAMS were heard hi the case of " Gordon v. Manson" (an Appeal from the decision of the Court of Session in Scotland), in behalf of the Applicants, and further proceedings were postponed.—Adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House met to-day at four o'clock; but upon the Spas cries taking the Chair, be found only thirty-eight Members present, and the House was accordingly adjourned dli to-morrow. /I 1 NORIT Y In the Committee of Supply on the 2d of February, who opposed the voting of Money without Estimates. Bennett, Hon. Grey flume, Joseph Sefton, Lord Farquharson, A. Maxwell, J. Webb, Edward Graham, James Parnell, Sir H. TELLES. Griffith, J. W. Ricardo, David Creevey. Thomas COUNTY OF ORKNEY ADDRESS. At the Meeting at Kirkwall, on the 10th ult. of the Freeholders, Justices of Peace, Commissioners of Sup ply, and Inhabitants of the County of Orkney, assem bled in consequence of a Requisition to the Convener of the County, for the purpose of voting a Loyal Ad dress to his MAJESTY—JAMES BAIKIE, EMI. of Tan kerness, in the Chair—the same was moved by Mr. UttounA RT, of Elsness, and seconded by Mr.TRAILL, of Woodwick ; when an Address, disapproving of the conduct of his MAJESTY'S Ministers, was moved by the Rev. Mr. TRAILL, of Westove, and seconded by Mr. THOMAS TRAM', jun. thereof; 3nd afterwards an Ultra-Loyal Address was moved by Mr. PETER- Els, Sheriff-Substitute of the County, and seconded. Ia consequence of the opposite principles supported by the several Addresses, the Meeting became a scene of confusion, and immediately broke up. It was re solved, however, that the several Addresses should be allowed to lie for signatures for a week. At the close of this period, upwards of forty signatures had been received to the Loyal Address, eighty to the Whig, and five to the Ultra-Loyal. AYLESBURY MEETING. A very numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of Aylesbury was held on Monday se'nnight, at the King's Head, pursuant to public ad v erti :e meat, for the purpose ofconsidering the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons on the grievances of the country. The Members for the Borough, Lord NUGENT and W. RICKFORD, Esq. came purposely from London to meet their Constituents. Thomas DELL, Esq. was unanimously voted to the , Chair, and, upon the Requisition being read, he stated that he felt happy at all times in meeting his towns men, but particularly on this occasion. They had heard a great deal about County Meetings being called a Farce !—perhaps this, in the same spirit, would be called a Borough Farce! But, however that might be, they had assembled as Englishmen to ex press their opinions, and he hoped that all parties would have a fair hearing. The Resolutions were then severally moved, se conded, and carried unanimously. Upon the sixth Resolution being adopted, Lord Nucaar rose and addressed the Meeting :- 4 4 Gentlemen—l assure you, for my own part, that I will support your Petition, and every part and iota of it, to the utmost of my power. At all times I con sider it my duty to present any Petitions from my Constituents, whether I agree with them or not. If 1 ever do differ from them, I hope .you will do justice t , ) my candour in expressing that difference—(Hear, hear)—but on this occasion I have the greatest plea sure in saying that I most cordially and fully agree aids you —(Ckeers). Until Mr. Rickford and myself arrived in Aylesbury, we were both unacquainted with the Resolutions just adopted by the Meeting, and knew nothing of the Meeting itself, excepting through the *medium of an Advertisement in the County Paper. The Paper was received by me on Saturday, as I left the House of Commons, under feelings of regret and disappointment at the course that had been then adopted. The House had ad journed its proceedings till' Wednesday, and I con-' ceived it to be my duty to meet my Constituents— (Cheers). A dreadful crisis, I fear, is now approach ing ; and I feel that a sense of duty, as well as love to my country (and I know that every honest man will feel with me), compels me to check, by firm and manly efforts, the arbitrary measures of the present Government; and we must arrest the evils that threaten us by closing strenuously and firmly for mu tual support. In times like these, a Representative has but two occupations—u hen released from his Parlia mentary duties, to meet his Constituents, and learn their sentiments; and when in his seat in Parliament, to do his utmost to support and express them.— With respect to the late wicked charges against her Majesty—with respect to the infamy and perjury of" the witnesses—with respect to the unconstitutional mode of trying the charges, you have heard enough of them ; to one part of those proceedings, however, I cannot help adverting—it is to the conduct and expressions of a Noble Lord. I highly value the pri vileges of Parliament, and no one is a greater stickler . for them than myself ; but when the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord on that occasion was laid before the Public in the shape of a pamphlet, this work instantly became the proptrty, and subject to the criticism, of the world. I must say, then, that it grieves me beyond expression, that a person of his high legal character, the head of the law, and the source of justice, in fact, the Chancellor of England, should have so far forgotten himself as to give his rancorous animosity to the world. We find this per son exerting every faculty he has to aid the destruc tion of an injured and friendless woman, unprotected, except by the voice of her Country, which is strength indeed—holding forth the Bill of Pains and Penalties as a benefit to her cause—pertinaciously refusing her,' by his vote, a list of witnesses previous to her trial, and then, by way of palliation, 'Slating that some thing must be given to her as an equivalent—again asserting when Ilastelli was sent away, that some a Ivantage must necessarily be given her on that ac count—and then, in a spirit of shameless injustice, de nouncing her a harlot and a prostitute in the face of the people. The aspects of the times are gloomy.-- On the question of Parliamentary Refinn, my opi- --"k • - "°,•••; Won, may perhips not be so strolls u t •ose of Many who now- hear me; but if I ever had a doubt upon the subject, the proceedings of Friday evening must have removed it for ever : strong as was my convic tion before, what I witnessed -on that memorable night has Convinced me more than ever of the abso lute necessity of it. Inclination, as well as duty, would induce me to speak respectfully of the Parliament. I - consider the House of Commons so' connected with the liberties of the country, that they must stand or fall together ; but the present is the mere symbol and type of Parliament Representation ; or how could they so far disagree with the feelings of their consti tuents and the country at large, as, on a division re specting the insertion of the Queen's name in the Li turgy, to make up it number of a majority of 310 in favour of a measure that has been extcrated by every good man in the country? It might as well be said, that the sentiments of the People of England were expressed by the Privy Council as by the 1-louse of Commons, or the voice of Europe by the Despots of Laybach"--(Loud and repeated cheers).—The No ble Lord proceeded :—Parliamentary Reform must be effected by firmness and moderation ; the voice of the people cannot, and will not, ultimately be re sisted. In spite of the discouraging prospects before them, there was something within him that told him the voice of the people will still be heard.— To return to the subject which was at present para mount to all others—a Minister of the Crown, in a weak and laboured defence of a bad affair, had re• course to his usual method of misrepresenting what had been said by his opponents. The Member for Oxford (Mr. Wetherell), a man of profound ability, and of the legal profession, was said by Ministers to have stated, in the course of debate, that the People owed allegiance to the Queen. if he had so said, he would have undoubtedly been wrong. They owe her no allegiance; she was a subject (though the first) as well as themselves : they only owe allegiance to those feelings which led them to protect the oppressed. " Allegiance and loyalty," said his Lordship, " are mouthed out in the present day by persons who, per haps, do not know the meaning of the 'expressions they utter : my allegiance is attachment to my King, conformably to our glorious Constitution, whose Mi nister he is—attachment to those sacred laws .which afford him protection"—(Cheers).—With respect to the dismissal of his Majesty's Ministers, he, for one, would cheerfully exert his. humble efforts to that end, not because he had any personal animosity to those now in office, or friendship to those who might suc ceed them, but hecause he believed in his conscience that their conduct would end in the ruin and de struction of their country. He had watched their con duct narrowly through the whole of his Parliamentary duties, and upon no occasion had anything occurred to induce him to alter the opinion he had just expressed. Ist. Their arbitrarily enforcing the taxes, amidst the unexampled privations under which the country now laboured, for the purpose of supporting that shame ; ful profusion which was so disgraceful to the coun , try. 2dly. Their suspending the Habeas Corpus Act without necessity, and in violation of the Con stitution—depriving Englishmen of the glorious li berties our ancestors have fought for, without notice and without examination ; and lastly, as the consum mation of all, their base and unmanly attack on an unhappy woman, unsupported, except by the feelingi and voice of a virtuous People. That People had borne her triumphantly through her persecutions, and hailed her victory not in bloodshed and rapine, but with the feelings of liberty and peace. If the expression might be allowed, that they deserve the blessings of PROVIDENCE, surely the manly and open firmness with which they have stood forward in de fence of injured innocence will shower it down on them, notwithstanding the base and unprincipled conduct of their rulers. Glad would he be to drop the subject for ever. It was commonly said that a change of Administration was merely a jostle between the ins and the outs—(Loud applause).— For himself, whatever might happen, he had no personal interest, though there were those who were near and dear to him who probably might be included in a change. " I solemnly promise," said his Lord ship, " in the face of my constituents, never to lend my feeble efforts to support any Administration, of whomsoever it may be formed, which will not pledge itself to the following stipulations : though I do not myself expect a change, I wish you, before whom I stand to-day, to know my sentiments, and bear them in mind : mark me, remember what I am saying to you, and tell me of it if I ever deviate from the principles I profess—the only principles which I con ceive will save my Country.'—(Cheers).—The sti pulations were-Ist. Economical Reform; a speedy, and, as far as way be practicable, an immedia:e re duction of Taxes—Taxes, which were raised to sup port the profligacy and luxury of the Court ;—a Commercial system abroad that would enable the starving Manufacturer to live, without being obliged to hawk from door to door the produce of his in dustry, and petitioning the Legislature, in vain, for the alleviation of his sufferings. 2dly, Par liamentary Reform. By Parliamentary Reform (he wished .not to be misunderstood) he meant that a succession of measures should be early begun and persevered in, to purify the Representation in Parliament, and keep up the relative situation between the Representative and his Constituents—to shorten the duration of Parliaments, and exclude all place men and pensioners from the House, who were de. pendent on the Crown. Idly, An effectual reduction in the army : they would see by the King's Speech that a reduction was to take place; but what was a ? If report was to be believed, it was only 5,000 men out of 95,000, and that from the Veteran Battalions, which were raised only two yeats ago, and amounted to ten thousand, and was stated at the time to be the cheapest force that could be levied ; consequently that ' being the cheapest, the less effectual was the reduction. It was absolutely necessary, not only - that all useless pensions and sinecures should be abolished, but that such a reduction in the Army should be instantly effected as would afford security to the People in peace, without being felt as an intolerable burden, and without placing them by an unconstitutional and Military force at the mercy of an arbitrary Govern ment. He believed he had touched on every point alluded to in the Resolutions which had just passed, and he sincerely hoped to meet them on a future day under better auspices. His Lordship concluded amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the Meeting. Mr. Iticaronn said, that he felt extremely happy that the adjournment of the House allowed him to • 7 tt J • 1... receive in person the commands of his Constituent, and he seized the opportunity with joy, as upon all other occasions, to lot ward the purposes of their Petition—Peers). '' The whole of the Resolutions were unanimonsly agreed to, and the Thanks of the Meeting given to the worthy Chairman ,for his impartial conduct in the Chair.—The CUAIRAIAN assured the Meeting that his humble endeavours would always be at the service of his townsmen„—The Meeting then dis persed, and the Petition received in the course of the following day 517 signatures. TH II.: EVE NING SM IL LONDON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1821. TM?. FUNDS. PRICE Of STOCKS TDB DAY AT OX O'CL•ICK Bank Stock 229 1 4 229-3 per Ct. Red. 73% Y 4 3 per Ct. Cons. 72% y 4 5 4-3; i per Ct. 82 5 per Cent. Navy 106 1 / 2 % Long Annuities 18 13-16 7 / B —lmp. 3 per Cent. 69'/8 India Stock 230—India Bonds 41s. 425. pre. Exchequer Bills 4s. 6s. pre. Cons. for Account, 73 1 / 8 72% 7/8. The traducers of the QUEEN rejoice at the division of yesterday morning in the House of Commons. That Ministers should be able to obtain a majority on any question affecting the stability of their situa tions, is, however, no way surprising ; for, on any division involving this question, it mould be . absurd to expect that any persons should be found voting for their own personal exclusion from place and ernolu- 'mein, which would inevitably be the consequence were the present Ministers forced to retire.—But the traducers of her MAJESTY met with what they wished the Public to believe to be impossible, a direct avowal from Mr. BROUGHANf, that all that fell from him when defending her MAJESTY was conformable to his own undisguised convictions. Mr. ItitotTottAm's situation as the Advocate and Adviser, not only made him acquainted with facts, but gave him admission to the secret consciousness of the Illustrious Accused. The voluntary and un solicited declaration of such a man, in such a situa tion, would carry with it decisive weight if the subject were still in doubt. How much more satisfactory, then, is it, when the idea of establishing legal guilt is, given up, and the only hope that remains is that of ' tarnishing • the private conduct by the affectation of 1 debasing suspicions ! That Gentleman, in the course of his speech, addressed the House in the most so lemn manner (and it is proper that the Declaration should go forth to the Country and to all Europe), to the following effect : 1 It is fit I should now discharge what I call a debt of justice to her Majesty. I know it has been invidiously and malevolently asserted, and most industriously circulated, for purposes which must be obvious to every man, that my expressed opinions of ber Majesty's conduct are not the same in fact with my own conscientious conviction. It is necessary, Sir, for me, with that seriousness and sincerity which it may be permitted to a man upon the most solemn occasions to express, to assert—which I do now assert in the face of this House—that if, instead of an Advocate, I bad been sitting as a Judge, at another tribunal, I should have been found among the number of those men who, laying their hands upon their hearts, conscientiously pronounced her Majesty—' Not Guilty:—For the truth of this assertion I desire to tender every pledge that may be most valued and most sacred. I wish to make it in every form which may be deemed most solemn and most binding ; and if I believe it not, as'! now advance it, I here imprecate on myself every curse which is most horrid and most penal" It would be difficult to descriLe the earnest em phasis with which this asseveration was delivered, the deep interest with which it was listened to; or the enthusiastic and general cheering by which it was greeted. Throughout the whole of his speech he was unanswerable; and however little conviction it might afford to the adherents of Ministers, its im pression will never be effaced from the mind of the ' People out of doors. But what cares Lord CASTLE REACH for their sentiments? In one point his Lord ship was strictly correct in his statement, but griev owly out in his inference. He knew, he said, that the People of this country, when they had time to • reflect upon any question, would, from that innate love of truth which at once ennobled and distin guished them above all the nations of the earth, never fail eventually to come to a just conclusion. And from this his inference was, that, by and bye, they would approve of the conduct of Ministers 1— But it so happens, on the present occasion, that the great body of the People who, by the bold, unblush ing slanders of the QUEEN'S enemies, had been led to take up unfavourable opinions respecting her MA.. JESTY'S conduct, having had time to reflect on these calumnies—having had time to examine and weigh the evidence—the conduct of her enemies—the pal pable conspiracy formed against the ,QUEEN'S life and honour—the foul, dishonourable, hateful, execrable conduct of her enemies .have gg come to a just con clusion" on the question, in spite of all the tricks and base artifices that had been employed to prejudgb the question and poison the public mind: and the con clusion they have come to rests on such evidtnce as will near suffer them to alter the opinion which " their innate love of truth" has led them to form respecting the want of principle by which the QUEEN'S enemies have been, apd still continue to be, actuated. The Motion of Mr. JOHN SMITII, Member for Medhurst, for restoring her MAJESTY'S name to the Liturgy, comes on on Tuesday next, u hen we s h a ll. no doubt, bear some sapient reasons why (though we are commanded to pray for all mankind) the QVILZIII of E.toLAYn ought to forth an exception, argument against it resolves itself into , mous assumption—that the KING'S Adviser, right and the power to set aside, as nug; minent Christian commandment, at the that these very men can maintain (whe n , any particular argument) that the Christian is " part and parcel of the Law of EV ? . One argument used by Ministers agai table Motions, namely—"" Your object i! us out, that you may take our place" —.. 1 on this occasion ; for Mr. SSIITII has d( whatever change may happen in the A, he will not take any office.—And the holds with respect to another Motion, of MABERLY gave notice—for Economy, Retrenchrog; and the Repeal of the House and Window which is marked down for the 20th • Member for Abingdon having likewiie he will not take any office, whatever occur in the Government. We are happy to understand, that , W2S perceived that the advertisement on the Victualling Office, for American floul general dissatisfaction to the British and that the measure was likely to be fore Parliament, a notice was .sent rount chants, that they were not to offer theii that British flour would be sent out b , to our foreign settlements, which woul per officers, be previously kiln-dried. tention on the part of Ministers to the does them no small honour; and as tin Farmer in a late instance, as to the dra.. export of hops, have been so readily attended are induced to hope that success may to their ulterior expectations. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrivt and those of Monday this forenoon. It appears now pretty well ascertained explosions were nothing mote than part to agitate the Funds by exciting apprehensions the stability of the existing Government. depression of the 5 per Cents. was in fact: the first promulgation of the circumstance and thus, before the Public had time ti quire, the blow was struck and the frai complisheA. In a very few days confidence stored, and ever since the Funds have on the rise. Had any reasonable ground been lair ence of a conspiracy against the Roy: alarm would have sunk deeper into the public creditor instead of being so soon whole demeanour of the KING, in relation , has been of a nature very much calculated the apprehensions of the credulous. lightly at the first, and in his Answer dress of Congratulation, declares mere " the event was less serious than it considered."—Neree, to whom there to impute an active share in the plot, in Paris in 1814. He entered into a a mercantile house there, but had a dispute and withdrew from the partnership. he gave himself up to stock jobbing, which ruined his fortune, and is sul driven him upon the late desperate e: pairing it. According to the latest accounts the conferences had not yet comment they to begin till all the Ministers h Plenipotentiary from the King of petted among the rest, as also the M HIALVA, Ambassador from the King to the Court of France. A Berlin artil of January states, that the King of only repair to Congress in a certain case the declaration of war), and when hi be indispensable for signing the d. fine Congress. g 4 The period," it is added, jesty's departure is so much the more is impossible to foresee when the negociatiou have air ived at such a degree of maturity An article from Milan, of the 25th " Everything that is passing around nounce that war with the Neapolitans is upon. The Austrian Police here watches greatest attention every person who is cupy himself with political questions. particular are the special objects of Some interesting information is gives in Papers , respecting the war in Albmia. by an article from Constantinople, that Ai has defended himself so successfully and many destructive sorties, that he has not tained his ground, but induced his assailan the siege, both on account of the loss which experienced, and of the great deserrn win ch vailed in their army, and to encamp at shores of the lonian Sea. Amongst the . ployed by this bold and crafty Chieftain to and terrify his enemies, he is said to have British flag, to lead them to suppose ' reinforced by English troops. Accounts of date from Trieste confirm the above. The! that ALI had obtained considerable ad'. that.the siege had not only been raised, but besieging army was entirely dispersed. add, that notwithstanding the strict the PuraL, it would scarcely be peach • n. 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