The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-19 00:00:00

196 OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Wednesday a Court of ConimmiCouncil was hehi at 6!iildhall, iii consequence of a requisition received by tite Rtght boo, the Lord M iyor, to consider the pro priety ol a dutiful and loyal Address 10 her Majesty the t 2 ncea, upon her arrival in ntis country. Previous to taking the Chair, a very sv.trm and loud altercation took place between the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Waithinati, Messrs. Pavel, llorcombe, and others. Ills Lordship seemed eager to impress ou the gendeineu present ine propriety 1,1 (Welling this discus sion until the result id the negociatiotts, 110 W 'lending, be made known. lu support of this opinion, he in stanced the conduct of both Houses of Parliament, and of the High Bailiff of Westotinsier. In reply, Mr. Al derman \Vaitionan asked his Lordship it he thought he had more sense than all the rest of the Court put urrether ; and observed, that the proceedings of the Lord Mayor of Loudon were to. to be regulated by those of a I ligh Rita' of Westminster. Tne altercation, seinen was waxing wanner and wormer every moment, was only put an end to by his Lordship taking the Clair. After the mottoes of the last Court had been read, LOHD MAYOR said, that when the acquisition calling tats C o urt was presented to him, there was a hope oust time business on which it wax called would have bees settled. WA having been ilw case, he hoped tiie good sense of the Court would not proceed in i . 1 f not, lie should be very sorry to act in a way which Ins sense of ti toy would compel hum to 1:0.. Mr. FAVIii, said, that it wool , : he found, from his opening speech, that it was the farthest thing from his wish to widen the breach which now unhappily sub sisted; but rather to do every thing in his power to heal it. The Requisition, calling that Court, and the former Address to toe Pritice4 of Wales, congratulating her on the defeat which her enemies had Illtt with, having been read, .a. Mr. FAVEL trusted the merits of this question would, be met with coolness and deliberation; and he rose, therefore, to move a dutiful Address of Condolence and Congratulatiota to our most gracious Queen Caroline . . The Minutes just read shewed clearly that the Queen had left this country with the good will and atlection of the people, and it had been the cottons of the Court to congratulate each of the Royal Family on their arrival 111 England. lie hoped, therefore, that this would not be the hest time that they neglected a duty, which V.',l* now peculiarly imperative. Ills Address must contain two branches; one of them of congratulation, awl the other to condole with her on the very many losses which she had sustained in her family since her departure from this country. She had lost her father, brother, her amiable daughter, her good friend the Dake of Kent, and the late King, her protector against all her enemies, and yet had site boldly come and thrown her self on British justice, and the protection of a loyal people. Unless there was any one who would dispute her title to be Queen of England, he could anticipate no objection to its motion. Every smother of the Royal Family must be pleased with a flit, loyal, and moderate Address, because all most be anxious that she should be able to prove her innocence. He. should wish to heal the unhappy differences which now existed in the Royal Family. They were not now in a situation to make a choice of evils; nor were they to abstain from addressing the Queen, unless they would make themselves a party to the charges now brought against her Majesty. He then moved a dutiful and loyal Address to the Queen on her arrival in this country. Mr. J. WILLIAMS seconded the motion. He could not consider this an interference between husband and wife; but he was free to confess that this subject could not be handled, without calling in question the conduct of Ministers. If they were to omit this Address, it would be an insult to both the Queen and his Majesty. Sir NV.Corris rose with regret to oppose this motion, which, though tuorlerate, yet it touched on a quarter of all others the most delicate. Parliament had suspended its deliberations, and so ought they. Mr. Jove thought the manner in which the worthy Mover had handled the question was highly creditable to him ; and that all they had to consider was, whether they would depart from their usual course, which was to address the Royal Family on their arrival in this country. Mr.JACKS said, that he conceived any interference on their parts, in the manner now proposed, would be de cidedly taking the part of the Queen against the Kiug.— (No, no, no!) Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, that after the very able and judicious rummer in which this Address had been moved and seconded, he should not have spoken one word in support of it, did he not conceive that his opinion would be expected upon a subject which had formerly engrossed so notch of his attention. Even if the conduct of her Majesty hail ever been so blameable, still, never was there a woman under the canopy of Heaven more deserving of compassion. Every attempt had been made to traduce her character ; and that was tile most effectual of all ways to make any Iniman being careless of their coil list. 'I his was the very proper Hale for congratulation. Could they shut their eyes to the persecutions which that Illestrions Female had under gone? And did they suppose, that by Nyin.,4 her studied neglect, who. was not only the Consort of our Sovereign, but inner wise nearly a hied to him by blood, they should act agreeably to his feelings? It WJS impossible; it must give that Royal personage the greatest satisfaction to see her Majesty's innocence clearly proved. Let them look at the degraded situation of their Queen. By erasing her name from the Liturgy, she had been as it were shut out of the pale of the Church. But the great est cLgrarlation of all was the proposition which offered money—money to be taken from the pockets of a soffering people, to he spent in a foreign country, and to one, who, if we believe the insinuations of the very men who made this infamoos proposition, was woolly mle- Etfl ills Of support. °fight they not to admire her cost- - _ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. winning these base proposals, and throwing herself at i once boldly and nobly upon the justice of tue country, protesting against secret tribunals, and demanding open trials The people were sick enough of Green Bag Plots —(A laugh)—and he believed they would never again be estislicd with any thing in that shape. It was their duty to go up to her Majesty, and tell her that it was their 6iitcere wish to see her well out of one charkes by which her character had been aspersed. He trusted the Address would Ise cartied,and that too in such a manner as to couvince her 'Majesty that it e 33 not a cold and formal Address, but um, springing from the heart in all the WJ with and ardour of loyal atlectioan Mr. PF.ARSON COilirliCil the conduct of several of the frieuds oilier Majesty to that of the patron described by Dr. Johnson in Its letter to Lord Chesterfield. In the course of his speech Mr. Pearson said, that Mr. Jacks was said um have travelled in Prance as a Member of time City Parliament—(latmhter)—and that his name stood upon the Aix-la-Chapelle list as that high character. Mr JACKS declared, that he never was at Aix-la- Chapelle, and that he never travelled with a false title. Mr. PEARSON then proceeded to state, that her Ma jesty li el been most infamously treated on the Conti nent, where he hound that people were not only damming scandal, but sowing it, and where the Queen had been beset by enure than ordinary spies. '('he LORD MAYOR here rose and said, he considered that the lVorthy Member impeached the (louses of Par liament by such language. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN called opoti the Court not to be dictated to upon the subject by the Lord Mayor, who had interrupted a Worthy Member without any grounds whatever. Mr. JACKS rose, and begged that Mr. Pearson would let him know whether he (Mr. Jacks) was the person alluded to. Mr. PEARSON declared that he neither meant Parlia ment nor the Worthy Gentleman. Ile concluded with declaring that the whole country were under obligations to Alderman %Vood for the spirited part he had acted. Mr. I)=N said, the question certainly ought to be adjourned. He hoped the Court would postpone the question to a given day. Mr. OLDHAM said, he came into the Court with the view of voting fur a postponement, but the motion o Mr. Pavell now appeared to him preferable. There certainly was no female more deserving of commiseration than the illustrious person who was the subject of debate. ------- Mr. FA VEL replied. The LORD MAYOR then put the previous question.— Against the precious question.—Three Aldermen, 103 Commoners, 2 Tellers—LoB. For it.-ooc Lord Ma or, five Aldermen, 18 COM• moners, e Tellers-2G. Majority. in favour of the ori ginal motion, 82. A Committee wiz accordingly appointed to prepare the drift of an address, which being laid beture the Court, was read and agreed to. CORN L4JVS. If we wish to know the real amount of the tax raised upon the country by the Corn Bill, we must ascertain at what price Corn could be procured from foreign coun tries, if importation were always free; for beyond this price it could not permanently rise. Poland and Russia are the countries which export most Corti ; and it has been repeatedly shown, that Corn brought Irons these countries, as well as from other parts of the Coo LL iLL rut, could he sold regularly in our markets at 455. or 503. — It will be observed, from the debate on the 30th May, that at present foreign wheat could be bought at 37a and even so low as 335. according to some statements. But ass g 50s. as the average, and estimating the consumption of each individual who uses wheaten bread at 1# qrs. pee annum, then it results, that according to the average price of wheat in England for the last rite years, (78s. 104.) a tax is imposed of 35s per annum on each consumer, or 71. on a faintly consisting of a Wall with his wife and two children. On the primer classes, who consume oats, barley, and potatoes, the tax may amount to half this sum; and such is the sacri fice made by the country for toe protection, as it is called, of the landed interest! Thought sue whole of this suns neither goes into the picket of the landlord nor the farmer, it is entirety lust to the country. If the la bour expended in raising two quarters ol wheat were employed iu sonar species of manufacture, and the pro duct sent abroad, it would exchange for more than three quarters. The additional quarter of wheat, therefore, (or commodities of an equal value), is as much lost as if it were thrown into the sea. The senseless eta moor :thous, the quantity of waste land in the country, has fostered the delusion which has given this pernicious ditection to so great a portion of the national industry. It is the true interest of a nation to employ its capital and labour in those branches of industry, which being best adapted to its soil, climate, and si.tiation, are there fore most productive; and it is no inure for its advan tage to cultivate all its sod, than to quarry all the stones that are under it. If we make tip our minds to encou rage home cultivation in every article without regarding expence, there are few commodities which may not or raised within the country. hemp and flax imported front Russia mav, by sufficient forcing, Le made to grow, tl l gh of an interior quality, ou the waste lands 111 England. Sugar might uc ex!-acted from the beet root 'as in Frauce, at three times the cost of West ludic sugar. Even vices, cotton, and rice, might be raised in j h ut-houses, at ten or twenty units the usual expellee, to the great encouragement, no doubt, of domestic in dustry. In s hort, by following up the principle of die Corn Laws rigorously, and sacrificing one half our we might bring ourselves to a slate of complete independence on all foreign supplies. Such a system i would be pernicious n any country, but in a commer cial country it is the climax of bad policy. A nation 6 bite this, which has got the start of 11 its ikviillboGrs ---- - in capital and mechanical spill, and possesses so many advantages in its insular position, its coal field., and the superior security of property, mightlocrease in wealth and population almost beyond any limit, were its industry perfectly unshackled. But if the landholder steps in and says, " you shall employ no more artisans ;nu! sailors than I can feed; and 111 proportion as you tunltiply their numbers, you shall pay me a higher anti a higher premium upon their subsistence," it is easy to see that its progress must soon have an end. Had Lon don resolved to take no corn but from Middlesex, every foot of that county, heath, or hill, would have been cultivated like a garden, but London would never have possessed ooe fourth of its present wealth or population. So the landholders of Britain have rcsolt ed. that till every foot of marsh mid rock is brought under the plough, no more people shall be allowed to live in this country than they call supply food for. THE DIME DI FRlAlL—Friday a numerous body of Spanish merchants resident in this country waited on the Duke de Frias, the new Spanish ambassador, to congratulate him on hs arrival in this country.— Mr. Bernales was the organ of the deputation,and, in addressing his Excellency, stated, that he tilt proud of having been chosen to convey the sentiments of his countrymen now in London. It had not been usual, he observed, for Spanish merchants to pay their respects to their ambassadors collectively ; but they felt called upon to do so in the present instance, that they might convey to him their high satisfac tion at having a man of his liberal sentiments for their national representative in this country, and to pay their just tribute of admiration to one who had fought the battles of his country both in the field and in the cabinet The Duke de Frias replied nearly in the follow ing terms:- 1 anniappy to find among my countrymen abroad the same spirit whirls animates those at home. 'nose few Spaniards who are trot yet become sensible of all the be nefits of the Constitution are nevertheless encodes to tyranny and oppression. For my own part, I have ever been the decided friend of a lice government, and that cause shall never want my 11111.1/01t. Wiles' the French first entered Spain, I was of that age when a man begins to feel that his country has a claim upon his services. I therefore took up arias, and during six years combated those enemies—l may say, with success. The ieniaining six years 1 pawed in red; ement, lamenting the misfortunes ot my clinotry ; but my 044 esists no longer, and all Spain is rejoicing over the prospect of happiness that awaits her. It gives me pleasure in bring able to assure you, that the King is as sincerely attached to the Consti tution as any Loan in the country. Spain, 1 trust will sow become the abode and asylum of rational liberty, where persons from all parts of the world, who seek it, may find protection." The Demerara Gazette of the 27th of March announces the pleasing fact, that so flourishing is the state of the colony, that the Government are enabled materially to lower the Tax on Revenue, and the duties on Product. The duty on sugar is reduced three-fourths ; that on rum two-thirds : on molas ses ahnost four fiths ; on cotton three-fourths ; and 00 coffee upwards of one halt: Four guilders were to be paid by the owners of each slave. With res pect to the Income Tax, there has been a material diminution ; all persons are to be exempted whose incomes for the past year have not exceeded 2,000 guilders. A colonial duty of 66 guilders has been imposed on each pipe of wine, but a drawback of 50 guilders is to be allowed on exportation from the colony. Alt persons within the colony were sub ject to a tax of 50 guilders for each four-wheeled carriage kept by them, and 22 guilders for each horse, whether he be employed for business or for pleasure. The ceremony of proclaiming his present Majesty took place on the 25th of March. The taxes of the colony were levied and paid previous to the Ist of last month, in order that his Excellency, the Governor, might be enabled to meet the expen ces ot the present year. A Paper has been printed, by order of the House of Commons, skewing the state of the public debt of the empire, funded and unfunded, as it stood on the sth ot January, 1820. By this it appears. that the unredeemed debt of Great Britain and Ireland, on the sth of January, 1820, amounted to £836,946,923 of which the total annual charge amounted to X 49,592,152. This enormous mass of debt has been since increased by the late Loan. — The redeemed debt, standing in the name of the Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, amounts to £420,828,751, of which the public has to bear the charge of management, with out deriving the slightest benefit from its operation ; fur the expenditure of the year absorbs all the nomi nal sinking fund. SERIOUS COMMOTION. An alarming disposition to mutiny has sliewn itself for some days past in one of the corps d' elite of the army, and extended itself so far as to cause its instant removal, by peremptory orders, from the ca pital, this morning. We are in possession of many particulars, but oar great deference for his Majesty's Attorney-General and ex-fit) informations pre vents our communicating all we know.—An army may be quite as dangerous to those who would use it tyrannically, as to those who were the intended v ictitns of oppression by its meats.