The National Register. — London, England, 1809-04-16 00:00:00

244 Cd 1.0 CL OGLE. Lord FOLKSTON E represented him as not only guilty of fraud in his accounts, at a period when he obtained a letter of service for the raising of a levy, but also of forgery in the receipts w high he gave on that business. To there charges officially filed against him by the Attornev , (ieneral in 1801, he had pleaded not guilty, but afterwards w ithdrevr that plea, and consequently stood upon the footing of full copy iction. Not withstanding this the pending proceedings against hint w ere unaccountably stopped, and it was with the view of astertaining the reasons for so doing that the Noble Lord made his present motion, naniels, " That there he laid before the House a cop of the information filed in his Ma jesty's Court of King's Bench by the Attorney-General, against John Ogle, Esq. in the year 1540 a or ISOI, together with an ac count of the consequent legal proceedings therein.'' Mr. Yon at; and the Cit.t N CELL O k of the Eicra-.QvEtt had net objection to the Noble Lord's motion for the Papers. '['hey contended that the bond of MAIM. which Col. Ogle had en tered into for the reimbursement of the public Money, and which at present existed at the War Mire, was a reasonable ground whetena Id test a suspension of further proceetlings. This bond was equivalent to any tine which the Court of King's Bench may impose, and would be cimverted to other purpuse3 than would the fine- imposed by that Court. The Noble Lord's motion Was then put ;tad agreed to: Lord FOI:Kr.s-roNy: then further moved for the produCtion Of such letter. from Colonel Ogle to the War Office as related to his apptiention for a settlement of his accounts and the answers thereto.: Air. Yon x r!, proposed, as an 6mendent to thls, to add, 44 • and also all the proceedings of the War Office; with reference to Col. Ogle's ar counts." Sit J. Neu port moved ror a copy of the %vafrant appointing Beach:tuft Hill, Esq. to tle office of inspector General of Excise, for that part of the United kingdom tailed Ireland: The lion. ltonet wished to know what could entitle a man who was no tot io u 4y gdilty cif trral-practices in an Wainr oflice, to promo tion of .so extraordinary a kind. Mr. Foster and Mr, Croker both horse* testimony to the abi lity and dist i7ignis:ied activity of that Officer. If he took freF, ft was not at a time %%hell it was a general practice to do so ; for though contrary to the Act, it WaS warranted by the extreme poverty of the salaries. Tree had been since raised, and no further excuse could now ist, but there Was certainly an ex cise at a former prriod. Si'r J. Newport offered some otrervations in rep/3'; after *hitt) the motion was pot, and agreed to.----Adjoutnetfi Thu rsl .4pril Lunt, I STLEttIIAGII. tort! AlitC7/11/41.1) 11AN:111'0N mse to give notice, that in enosequence of the dick tyre. that had heti) made in the Report of the East India Committee, he should, On toamorrow se'n bight, submit to the !louse a motion respecting the same; and, as the disclosures were of so valurninnu:, a nature, he thought it necessary distinetry to state, that on that day he should call the attention of the to that part exclusively relating to the conduct of Lord Castlereagh. Lord OSsulstim moved for an Address to his Majesty, praying that there he laid before the House a rot urn of all Places, Posts, And Offices held itnitTediattly from the Criwn, whether during pleasure or good behaviour, or by reversion, or any other tenure, and what, whether in the !finite I)epartment or the Colonies, together with the nature, dutv, and salaries of the re spective Offices, and the duties of .their several institutions. — Ordered. Me CIIIMSE rtostsynt:..—coLovr,r, cottooN, ,ir FRANCIS Ilr, aorrr, t , eeisaz a Noble Lord in his 'Anse, expressed. a wiih to know from that Noble Lord, if «hat he had heard with resport to the disposal of the public property to an individual was founded in fact.- The circomstance he allnd- eil to was this : he had understood that a portion of the gronod belonging to Chelsea Hospital,. !yin ,* along the hank of the niver . Thames, and partkuturly calculated for the air and exer- eise of the pensioners, had been lately consigned over to the use and posseisito,9f..WonV Gordon, jr tiot ATT7slid, that he stotild to-morrow submit me/ ' to 1 ' ,un (6.,subjeet.. Le: J.; , Ifooiti,\Committee on the Local`, Militia ;re '1 • 11 . , n at as many rOuntirs, not from *;)‘• • , 41 • • ' scircumstances bad not been aMe gf.. • • -- `/i'•/ . .;% ••%•;!, 4!P';‘,. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. APRIL 16. . to complete their number, he would propose that the old bounty should he continued till the first of January next, instead of the 10th of May, as before intended. This would give time for the completion of the quotas in every quarter, at the Hid bounty paid by the public. This was agreed to. Lord Castlereagh Olen proposed that the Yeomanry Cavalry Officers should rank after the Luta! Militia Officers aS Mose did after the Regular Militia. The clause was agreed Report received, and ordered fri lie timber considefed on Mon day, and to be printed.—Adjourned. Friday, April 14; A twit *tit it as ordered for Etlinburghshite, in the room of the Right Hon: Rotwrt Saunders Dundas, who Since electiou had accepted the (Alice of Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieute nant of 1 Maud. tREACII OP PRIVILEGE. Sir Charles Hamilton, previous to moving the arde'r of the Day, that Daniel Butler be called to the Bar, proceeded to state' the circumstances which induced him to trouble the House with a complaint agniust that ingividual. Had any apology been made, he should have suffered the matter to drop ; but not the slightest apology had been offered. About three o'clock lii the afternoon of Wednesday last, a servant in livery brought a let ter to his house; addressed to Sit J. C. Hamilton, Bart. lit opened it inadvertently without looking at the direction, and found the purport of it to he a demand of an inconsiderable sur* of money due to some persons of the name of Walsh anti Co. As he found the letter did not concern him, he was speaking to his servant to deliver it back again to the person sVho had brought it, and tell him he had made a mistake, when Butler and another . man rushed into the room where he was sitting, and told him he was their prisoner, Ile demanded to see the a u.thfurity on which they acted# and Butler produced a writ directed against Sir Join: Charles liarairton. Ile immediately perceived that the men were acting under a Mistake, and infattned them of their error { telling them, at the same time, that he was a Member of this [rause, and referring them to his Soricitot for their satisfaction. Butler insisted, however, that he should go with them, and as they said they must use force if he refused, he consented to go with them to his Solicitor's, and when they had got as far as V igo-lane, they both ran away from him, and he saw no more of them. He moved that Daniel Butler he called to the Bar. Daniel Butler being called in, the Speaker said, that a coritsi plaint had been preferred againt him of a gross violation of the privileges of the House, and asked him what he hail to say in extenuation of his conduct. Btuler pre - sented a paper, w hick he •vas desired to read. He said he could not read, nor did he know its contents. Sir Cit A a I.ns HAMILTON desired that he might be asked . whether he had not endeavoured to *a tisfy him that he was not the person mentioned in the writ ? to which Butler aiwvered he hall. Ile was then directed to withdraw. The NcEct OR of the EN C Egu nit, in a short speech•, condemned the conduct of the officer in very severe terms; and moved, that by arresting an Honourable Member of that House, he had been guilty of a breach of the privilege of th:it House The ►notion being caroled, the Right Bon. (icnile•man next moved, that the Speaker he directed to iLsne his %%arrant to con►, mit the body of I) :girl Butler to the custody. of the Keeper of his Majesty's prison of Newgate. Ordered. CIIELFCA 1103PrTAL T.AND GRANT. Sir FR .A !icts BUR Dr.FT said, he felt a considerable ditclif:'y in introducing the subject to the Rouse, from the impossibility of describing in words what required to be seen to he under. stood. Ile would endeavour, however, to explain to the House the reasons which principally impelled hint to object to the grant which had been model() Colonel Gordon. The piece of land allotted to Colonel Gordon, was a tine spacious piece of gWaud, contiguous to the river, and the erection of a house upon it would spoil a mag nificent prospect: The ~ituation of the project] ed infirm." was behind Colonel Gordon's house, from which It was to be shut nut by a wall eight feet highiand the house woul* .completely intercept it from the river. An intinnaryihe thought ought to be erected in the most airy situation that could be found,• and tome could be better for such a building than the banks ofm river, where a fresh stream of air is almost always to he loupe: t. ut in the present instance it seemed as if the public utility wog' to he sacrificed to' gratify a private - individual, (Hear, hear !). and he could not help considering it as a rank job, (loud cries ay' Hear, hear!) The lion. Baronet expreiksed hi burinhe that the - the p►ia KR ratio 514 r, r• • 1 ••• i 7 ' 1