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.'~` , ~ ~ .ti . ' ' - PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS • • e.•. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 19. • .1k • Dlr. Serjeant BLOSSVIT was heard for the Appellant in the Strathmore case, and Mr. Werneaett. in reply.—Further proceedings postponed to Tuesday next. Mr. JOSINSON, from the Office of the Secretary of State for Ire land, presented certain Returns, pursuant to order.—Laid on the table. Counsel -nd evidence having been heard at the Bar in favour of the Lawton Wharfs Bill, that Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. The Justice of Peace Regulation Bill went through a Com mittee, and the Report was received. The Marquis of LA NSDDW N postponed Isis motion re specting the Foreign Slave Trade to Monday next, as the Papers which had bees, printed on that subject were very voluminous and had but just been delivered. The Earl of DARNLEY also postponed his motion respect ing the Navy, to next Tuesday, for which day their Lordships were ordered to be summoned. SrATIONEHY OFFICE IN IRELAND. The Earl of DARNLEY rose to make the motion of which he had given notice on this subject. After directing their Lordships' attention to the Papers be fore them, he noticed the monopoly already enjoyed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin—an individual who, he believed, was very respectable, and who was likely very soon to give a, most hospitable reception to his Majesty during his visit to Ireland. It ap peared by the Papers before the House, that in the year 1780, the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland granted a Patent to Abraham Bradley and Abraham Bradley King, and the survivor of them, to supply certain Government Offices, exclusively, with Sta tionery. This was evidently a monopoly which be was sure the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool sack would not venture to :ay ought to exist, and he was sure no Minister at this time would advise his Majesty to grant such a monopoly to any individual. Alderman Bradley King, the present Mayor of Dublin, and sui riving Patentee. had since claimed the right of serving all the Public Offices in Leland with Stationer% , and they were so supplied by him. The words of the Patent were very remarkable; they set forth that the Patent should continue during plea sure. A question afterwards arose as to whether Mr. Kin; was entitled to supply, certain offices ; and a cons; Lunt was made by the Commissioners of Ex cise, setting forth that he had furnished them with articles of a very inferior quality, for which he had charged a very high price. It appeared that, during the last ten years,. this Gentleman had charged for stationery to the Government Offices, no less a sum than £228,606. He would be able to prove that half the sum pall to Mr. King might have been saved to the Public, if the Offices were served in Ireland in the same manner as in this country ; and a case might be made Mt which would be sufficient to induce their Lordshies to address his Majesty, beseeching him to put an end to the Patent, so that the Public should not have to pay so enormous a sum for the article in question. At all events, it was the duty of the Government to institute a strict inquiry into this department. After several other observations, and referring to the Papers on the table, the Noble Lord concluded with moving the following Resolutions : hat it appears, by Papers laid before this House, that on the 20th of December, 1780, a Patent was granted by his late 111..3 ~y to Abraham Bradley, and Abraham Bradley King, and the survivor of them, during his Majesty's pleasure, to serve with Stationery ware all Offices within his Kingdom of Ireland, which were supplied therewith, at the proper charge. " That in consequence of claims made and allowed at diffe rent times under the said Patent, the said Abraham Bradley King has for many years past enjoyed the exclusive monopoly of furnishing the principal Departments of Government in Ire land with Stationery, and that during the last ten years the sum of' £228,606 17s. 81d. appears to have been paid by Go vernment to the aforesaid Patentee, Abraham Bradley King, the average of which, calculated on the number of years in each case, will be found to amount to the sum of £55,129 13s. Bd. per annum. That in the year 1814, it appears that the said ' Abraham Bradley King, his Majesty's Stationer for Ireland, having claimed the right, as Patentee of the Crown, to supply the Ex cise Department with Stationery for its use, he was recognized by Goventment as having a preferable claim thereto, provided Ise undertook to supply them of as gond a quality, and at the same prices at which they could be procured from any respectable and unexceptionable person in Dublin.' " That in the supply of Stationery to the Excise Department, by the said Abraham Bradley King, considerable frauds and impositions appear to have been practised in the binding branch thereof, amounting to an overcharge of F 1,192 16s. 641. ' with out adverting to any overcharges which may have been made far similar books in the quarterly bills, which could not dm be ascertained.' In consequence of which, and ' having fully cansidered the premises, and the whole of the matter as it stood before them,' the Board ' were of opinion that Alderman King bad forfeited his preferable claim to supply that Department with Stationery. notwithstanding the foregoing circumstances, and this declared opinion of the Commissioners of Excise, the Board is still supplied with Stationery by the Patentee, ' on the same conditions as previously,' by the express directions of the Go vernment of Ireland. " That in addition to the frauds so detected in the binding branch of Stationery supplied to the Excise, it appears by a letter from James Roe, first Clerk in the Stationery Stores, to the Commissioners of Excise, dated 18th February, 1819, that • the quality of the Paper generally supplied by the-Stationer (the said Alderman King) for the use of that Department, was eery inferior, although the price allowed by the Board for each de.:rirtion, was such that certainly the very best quality of each should be supplied, and that if it bore a fair ratio with the price charged, the Officers would have had no reason to complain, as they gee( rally did, of the badness of what was furnished them for Revenue purposes.' That' in the last bill furnished by the Stationer (the said Abraham Bradley King) there was a charge for 109 reams of Second Imperial, charged at .C 5 6s. Bd. per ream, which judges more competent than himself valued at no more than 1:2.. los. per ream, making a difference in that item of the Bill of £3OB 16s. Bd.' "That by the Report of Mr. James Bourns, Inspector of Paper Duties, it appears that the prices charged by the said Patentee to the Board of Excise, were, in his opinion, ' regu -1..,d by the highest or retail scale for articles of the best quali ties but that of the Papers in store, very few were, in his eeiaion, of the best qualities; and the quality of the inferior de nominations was extremely low.' " That by the letter of James Roe aforesaid, to the Hen. the Commissioners of Excise, dated March 16,1819, it appears that eight thousand two hundred and seventy-six reams of Paper, it various denominations, had been ' received from the said Patentee,' on which, according to the Estimate of Mr. Bourns, there was an overcharge of £6,162 18s. sd. but it does not ap pear, by the Papers before the House, that the difference be tween the prices and qualities of the l'aper so furnished by the Patentee, and its actual value, has occasioned any proceedings on the past of the Board of eise, or of any other Depart ment of Government. " That, under all the circumstances of the case, as set forth it. the Papers before the House it appears that the Public inte r.- h - tve materially suffered under a Patent of Monopoly,vicious iu principle and in practice, and liable to the greatest abuses." Lord SIDMOUTH admitted that it was the very nature of a monopoly like this to create the abuse complained of. In consequence of the complaint that had been made in the year 1819 by 'the Corn foissioners of Excise, relative to the frauds alleged to be committed by the Patentee, an investigation was totered into in 18'20, by order of the Lord Lieute ; Use case was Afterwards referred to the Attor- liih. 4 '. • ney and SOlicitor-General of Ireland, who first gave it as their opinion that an indictment might be pre ferred ngainit Mr. King ; but afterwards they stated that no such proceedings could be entered upon, be cause Mr. King had been called on to make good the various deficiencies, which were alleged to have been occasioned by the neglect of a person employed in his office. The case, however, was at this moment in a course of investigation; and on that account he hoped the Noble Lord would feel that his Resolu tions were unnecessary. Lord Sidmouth concluded by moving the previous question. The Marquisof LANSDOWN said, it was evident' that the Public had suffered to an indefinite degree by the frauds which had been committed ; because it was impossible to say how long those frauds had been going on. It appeared that an Alderman of Dublin had the exclusive privilege of supplying the Government Offices with stationery, and that a price two or three times greater than its value had been paid for it. It was no excuse for Mr. King to say that this fraud had been occasioned by the negli gence of a servant. It was a case of great suspicion; and if any negligence had been practised on the part of the officers of Excise, that did not diminish the guilt of Mr. King. Such frauds as these existed to a greater extent in Ireland than in any other country ; and it was the duty of the Government to make every necessary inquiry into them, and see whether such persons ought any longer to be continued in their offices. If there was any description of abuses which ought to be punished more than others, they were those which were committed under the appear ance of patronage, and which had done injury to the whole population of a country. There should be one impartial law• with regard to the whole of his Ma jesty's subjects. It was by such abuses as these that the system of peculation was kept up; it was to these the Legislature ought to direct its attention ; and on these grounds he would support the motion. It evidently appeared that a system of peculation had long been carried on in Ireland; he was happy to hear an inquiry was intended to be made into it; but that inquiry would not be sufficient unless the con duct of all the parties connected with the business was strictly scrutinized. The Earl of LIMERICK said that he would sup port this motion if he had not heard the Noble Vis count declare that an inquiry was now going on into the abuses stated to be existing in Ireland, and that' if this officer were found guilty of the charges im puted to him, he should be dismissed. Upon this ground alone he would support the previous question. Lord ROSSLYN said no doubt could be enter tained that the charges for stationery made by the officer in question were excessive, and that nb notice seemed to have been taken of them by the Commis sioners of Excise, so that both parties combined to defraud the Public. The Earl of HARROWBY defended the state.' ment an s l views of his Noble Friend, and contended that the House ought not to form a judgment of the transactions in question merely from the papers now before it. Earl DARNLEY replied, and contended that the worthy Alderman derived an income of at least 1:19,000 a-year from the abuses of this department. Paper was supplied, in the ordinary way of trade, in this country, at something less than half the price than the King's Stationer in Ireland supplied that ar ticle to the Public Offices there. After what had been stated, however, he would not press his motion. Viscount SIDMOUTH, in explanation, said that there was the strongest ground, in page 55 of the printed papers, for the suspicion that Fox and Wood ma,oti had formed a conspiracy for the destruction of Mr. Alderman Bradley King. The previous question was then put and carried, and the House adjourned at Seven o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being only thirteen Members present at four o'clock 'this day, the House was adjourned as usuaL THE 14NENING STAR. LOND ON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1321. THE FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK : S per Cent. Reduced 76% 3 / 8 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Cons. shut-3 1 / per Cent. &PA 4 per Cent. 94% 1 / 8 -5 per Cent. shut Long Anns. 19 1 / 4 1-16—India Bonds 455. pr. Imp. S per Cent. 75—Exch. Bills. Is. dis. Is. pr. par Consols for Act. 77 1 ,4 let Vs. A Mail arrived this forenoon from Hamburgh, with Papers to the 15th instant. They contain the following interesting and apparently authentic ac counts from Turkey : HAAIBURGII, JUNE 14. The postcript of a commercial letter from Vienna says, 4 , Official news has been received that the Turks entered Bucharest on the ‘2Bth of May, that they behaved well, and that Ypsilanti had, with dif ficulty, escaped."—We have received the following intelligence by express : " A Courier, dispatched from Bucharest on the 28th May, has brought the news of the evacuation of the capital of Wallachia by the rebels, and of the peaceable entrance of the vanguard of the Turkish army. Kiaya Mahomed, Pacha of Silistria, Com mander of this corps of about 12,000 men, had ad laanced, on the 26th, as far as Odileschti, and on the 27th to Tratsinesi, five leagues from Bucharest, and, on the following day, to the environs of the city itself, without the smallest resistance being attempted by the troops of the various parties. Theodore, Had schi, Piadon, Binbaschi, with their adherents, on re ceiving certain information of the approach of the Turkish troops, precipitately evacuated, on the 27th, both the convent of Crotoeseno and the city of Bucha rest, the inhabitants of which feared a general pillage. " For several days the public peace had been pre served solely by measures concerted by M. Ndritzky, the Ausrtian Agent, with the Boyars and the Turkish , Commanders, and by the Austrian subjects at Bo charest, who were called upor. to form a guard.— On the 28th, a detachment of 200 Turks entered the city, who maintained the strictest discipline, and chewed a moderation which did them honour; so that they are considered by the inhabitants as their deliverers from the dangers and pillage with which they have been lately threatened. Theodore, with his adherents, has retreated by way of Pitescht, towards Curte d'Argisch, and took on his way all the post and other horses. Tne greatest disorder prevails among his Corps; and it is to be foreseen, that if they should be overtaken by the Turkish troops in the open country, they will hardly venture a battle. " Ypsilanti detached, on the 20th of May, the greater part of his. Greeks, stated at 2,000 men, un der the command of Cantacuzeno, against the Turk ish troops, who have been advancing since the taking of Galacz, in Moldavia. He bad remained himself, with only 600 men, at Tergaw•ist, against which the corps of Hadschi Ahmed Pacha was already on the march, to join that of Jussuf Pacha, of Ibrailow, who was likewise marching towards the same place, to drive away this leader of the Insurgents. " Unbridled anarchy prevails in Moldavia : the Helarists, who have abandoned Jassy, rove about the country, which they lay waste and .pillage like ban ditti. The Turkish divisions of the corps of the Seraskier Jussuf Pacha, of Ibrailow, are advancing in different directions towards Jassy, and where they appear order and tranquillity return, as they pursue only the Helarists, protect the country people, and pay for everything in ready money." CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 14. The following circumstances have excited an ex traordinary sensation here : " On the 29th April, the Creek merchant, Em manuel Danesi, vas arrested because he refused to pay a bill of exchange for 309,000 piastres, drawn upon him to the order of Prince Callimacchi, now Hospodar of Wallachia, because the drawer, the banker Sakellario, at Bucharest, had informed him that no funds had been assigned. The Austrian In ternuncio took his part, because Sakellario is an Aus trian ; and Danesi, also, defended himself with an in trepidity unusual with a Greek. He was released. He yielded, however, to the entreaties of his family, and concealed himself; but the Reis Effendi sending for him, the Russian Ambassador, whose banker he is, persuaded him to leave his retreat, and pledged his word for his life. " On the 2d of May Danesi, *accompanied by a Russian Dragoman, appeared before the Porte, but was immediately seized and thrown into prison. On the 3d, Baron Strogonoff caused him to be claimed as the Banker of the Russian Embassy ; but the Reis Effendi announced very coolly, that Danesi was a subject of the Porte, and Baron Strogonoff had no right to interfere in his favour. Hereupon the Am bassador ordered M. Von Daschkow, who is attached to the Embassy, to go in ceremony, accompanied by two interpreters, four janissaries, and two servants in state liveries, and renew the demand. He was made to wait five hours, and then dismissed with the same answer as the preceding d.ty. M. Von Daschkow, who had been ordered not to return without Danesi, sent one of his Janissaries to inform Baron Strogonoff of the answer he had received. ig The latter immediately came himself, with a nu merous suite, but received the same answer. At his desire he was conducted, contrary to established cus tom, to the Grand Vizier, but still received the same answer. He now desired to know of what Danesi was accused ? The Grand Vizier said, they had the most convincing proofs that he was guilty of high treason. Baron Strogonoff observed, that this accu sation entirely changed the nature of the affair ; that Danesi, being his banker, and the medium of his offi cial correspondence with the Morea, it threw a doubt on the uprightness of his own sentiments, and was therefore an insult to the Imperial Ambassador.— This the Grand Vizier would not allow, on which Baron Strogonoff loaded him with the harshest re proaches and the most serious threats. Nothing would put the Turk out of his way. The Ambassa dor-then asked the release of Danesi as a personal favour, on which he would set a particular value ; but received the same refusal. Hereupon he pre sented a Memorial, addressed to the Sultan, but the Grand Vizier refused to take it. Baron Strogonoff then withdrew, without having succeeded in his application. " Oa the 4th, Mr. Von Fonton, the First Coun sellor of the Legation, repaired to the Porte again , to demand the release of Danesi, and this being re fused, to desire that the Memorial should be pre- 1 sented to the Sultan. The Reis Effendi refusing both, Mr. Von Fonton declared he had orders to go to the mosque, to step before the Sultan on his way thither, and to present the Memorial to the Sultan. All the endeavours of the Reis Effendi to divert him from his intention, which he said was contrary to all custom, and derogatory from the dignity of an Ambassador, were fruitless: Mr. Von Fonton proceeded with his suite to the neighbourhood of the mosque where the Sultan was at prayers. When he came out, Mr. Von Fonton held up his paper and cried aloud, in the Turkish language, Here is a Memorial from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia to his Sublimity Sultan Nlalimoud the Second.' He pronounced those , words twice without exciting the attention of anybody. The third time, •the Sultan 'cast a contemptuous look at him, caused the p iper I rto be taken from him by an Officer, axed went 0n.... On the same day, a refusal, couched in very f url terms, was given. It however hoped, that the ate, I diition of the Russian Ambassador for Danesi, ic . companied with such remarkable circumstances, w ill I be attended with a happy result. " Ou the 7th of this month, the Russian Mi • (alleging the seventh and fourteenth Articles of t i t Treaty of Rudschuck-Kainnvzie) complained of t h e ill-treatment suffered by the Greeks, of the i s offered to their Religion, and of the destruction,* their Churches. He demanded that no Turkish tro ops should enter the Principalities of Moldavia and W a z. lachia, because tho e vinces were entirely tr anqu k Prince Suzzo having left the Ottoman territory, a a d Ypsilanti, who had not above 400 men, ha v i ng t h it himself up in a castle, where he is surrounded by* * Turkish troops. The answer of the Reis Effendi te . specting the entrance of the Turkish troops inr ot i v Principalities, is not publicly known ; but it is blo at that he has declared, that the rebel Ypsilanti Eta answer with his bead for the blood spilt at Jassya n i Galatz. It was, in fact, considered as impossibletb a he should escape. In Constantinople itself, there is great com a , tion among the foreigners and Greeks, and equit y so among the Turks, since the arrival of a Ru ss i a ship of war of 18 guns. Many persons attached to the Foreign Ambassadors are making preparatio a for their departure. CZBRNOWICZ (IN THE BUCKOWINA), MATti The storm of war is approaching. The desolnio threatening the Crescent ahead,' sheds its Wood/ light over the plains of Moldavia. The Turkish rix.. l guard of about 1,000 cavalry had reached, o n the 19th, Burl:It, only six leagues from Jassy, and Ind probability the main body has already entered that capital. All the roads leading from that unhappy mooy to this place, are covered with fugitives. Luta( pillage and fanaticism excite the Asiatic hordes ts the greatest cruelties, and nothing escapes their• sparing scymetars. We know nothing of Ypsiltai: most accounts say he has crossed the Danube, ad acts offensively. The advance of the Turk, has io tercepted all communication with Wallachia. alt Galacz 600 Greeks fought with 9,000 Turks, f whom 3,000 were cavalry, for nearly a whaled,. The number of combatants, on both sides, was to doted to one half ; at length the superior numbed the Turks prevailed. The remaining Greeks, 93 in number, were obliged to setreat; every one wa wounded. When there was nothing more to le feared from this valiant little band, the Turks maw cred, without pity, all the Christians, women al children, in the city. The following extract from a private letter fray Paris presents a desponding, but we are inclined e think rather an exaggerated, picture of the steed affairs in Spain. That anarchy ifit vails to a coo derable degree, in some parts, is manifest enough; but that it is so complete in all the provinces asie writer represents we do not believe: " PARIS, JUNE 16. gi Every day me receive news from Spain, anl every day brings us frightful proofs that a revoke tion as bloody as ours has begun. The most coaf plete anarchy reigns in all the provinces ; and di state of things does not affect the Government, whirl proceeds in its ordinary course, amusing itself it making fine laws and founding fine institutions, whiii on all sides the principles of government are entirely disregarded. The King remains still in the same* terior situation. " General Morillo has succeeded by his couragessi firmness in procuring for himself all due homage:pi respect. His Majesty still continues to protest hi attachment to the Constitution, while the Insurgeo, on the other hand, declare their knowledge of ti Majesty's hatred to it. , f It is probable that tke Cortes will be assemb in an extraordinary Congress. On the2d instants majority of the King's courtiers unceasingly besetti Majesty from sunset t^ midnight, interceding fa pardon for one of the ( - hikers of the gward who w condemned to death for rebellion, and was to been cuted next morning. his Majesty remained iri&l bly bent on the execution of the law, though bn emotion was but too visible." Monday the Princess AUGUSTA dined witb the DP chess of KENT, at her residence in the King's Pallor Kensington. Yesterday the Princess AUGUSTA rode out open carriage and four, accompanied by the Ds and Duchess of Cr ARENGE. Their Royal Higblos alighted at the Nursery Grounds of Mr. 10, Hammersmith, and viewed the extensive pls. tion grounds. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE dinedi e* terday with the Princess AUGUSTA. Last night the Duke and Duchess of Ctell and the Princess AUGUSTA, honoured the . Opera with their presence. Yesterday her MAJESTY had a dinner party t!?!, house in town, at which the following distingso' persons were present: of TA Lord and Lady Milton, Marquis and Meeeblenes s oft stock, Lord Wm. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Taylor, Robert Wilson, Mr. Habhouse, Mr. W. 11. Whittorsd, Ronald Ferguson, Mr. Brougham. The Duchess Dowager of ORLEANS is to Her Serene Highness was a Lady of exemplary or racter and virtues. By her death the Dal o f In a LEANS has acquired a large accession of forze tt consequent influence; not less, if our accou nt be tv: than '.454Y..),(Y)0 fr. or upwards of £I OO , OOO ye p. 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