The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

536 _ Claims, passed various Bills through t, sOjoutuad. . - THURSDAY, rza..25. A number of Anti-Catholic Petitions were presented, among them those-from the Gentry arid Clergy of tfie East Hundred of Kent"; and from the Gentry at Wilts. Upon the reading of the Kent Petition, Lord Daara.ev thouTht proper to make a few observations. The Petition bore the signature of many high and res.)ectable names ; but It was by no means to be regarded as the unanitn ,, us opinions of the county. There was a great dissent, at the time, against the majority ' and if sufficient notice and due preparation had been afforded, 'he was certain the majority would have bec ome the minority. Upon reading the Wiltshire petition, The Marquis of LAN SDOWNE said, he had documents to prove, tl.at new and most extraordiriary means had been resorted to, ter sw .14ing out the list of signatures to that Petition. Women set down their battles and the names of their infant chil dren, na y , more, they moiled up up and collected for the purpose the names of their Asent friends alai relations, and enlisted them in the cause. --Adjourned. FRIDAY, IFEII. 26. The English Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a third time, and pass d. Lord lArrstowNE presented a P. titirol from certain Insolvent Delitors in Ireland, praying a Bill might extend to their relief—Ad jouracd. MUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, Mr. 22. M. tll'ott moved for a new writ for thc oounty of 3uckingham, in the room of Karl Temple, who, by the death of his father, has been called to the Lipper House. The Election Committee for Great Grimsby, reported that the sitting Members were declared duly elected, but that the Petition was neither frivolous eor vexatious. The BM for appointing a Vice-Chancellor went through a Com mi•tee, at d was ordered for the third reading on Tuesday. Mr. M. A. TAyebe took occasion to state, that exaggerated state thenti has been published, of the etnolutnents annually obt..ined by the Lord Chancellor. The fees derived from bankreptcies only were calcuiated to exceed 17,0001. The fact, was, however, tMt for the' t three or four years thd whole airewntpaid to the first Law Officer of the kingdom did not exceed itt.W l l. out of Which the salary of Speaker of the H 'use of Lords was WOOL A number of Petitions were presented against the Catholic Claims. Adjourned. TUESDAY, TIN 23.. - The House was occupied until a quarter past five in ballotting for Zlection Committees. Mt Wit ma LAD presented a Petition from sore:. witnesses who had been suthmoned to attend on the Committee apeointed to inquire into • the return for Great Grimsby, complaining that tin money they bad received to defray their expellees had been scarcely sufficitnt to cover the ow ncr.s of their journey, .that they had in consequence been left destitute without the means of returni4 to their habitations. The Petition hating been read, Mr. WULTIMILAD said, that the usual mode of proceeding in such taw was to apeoint a Committee to inquire into the facts. Fit W. 11;a_ritt said, he had to present a P etition from snore than 130,000 `ants of this Metropolis, against what.was called the Ca tholic ananeipation. After a few wards from Mr. Whitbread, Sir James Shaw, Mr. B. Bathurst, Mr. C. Smith, Messrs. Gibbs and Baring, the Petition was mad end or - ered to lie on the Table. The SPEAKIR illtOrMed the House that he had received a letter from the rd Mat or of Dublin, which, with the permission ot the House, he. tterrold read. The letter was signed by the Lord Mayer, and stated, that he h d been deputed to piesent a Petition to both Houses from the i yof Dublin, on the.lubject of the Catholic claims, and begged that the House would permit him to present it at the Bar, as was the reostom in the case ot the City of Condon. Mr. Geer:AN said,..t sat though he del not concur in the object of the Petit; it, et he concurred in the wish, that every honour should be tone to the City of Dublin , as the captia li et Ireland, and the second cite ..f the empire. He should move accordieglv that the Lord Mayor be admitted to present the Petition at the Bar of the House. The motion hayloft been seconded, and Mr. Shaw having supported the matron. ,NNE said, that he fel , it to be his duty to oppose the case like he present, tiny most art by precedent, and th.ttlinnAh titer had ..d ted to Creir tsar the Sheriffs 116 in winch tkr-y held their s;:ting , , th►y had never ad tr.nn any min rCor; oration in the same favour of the Motion, in. it wou'ir.l be a compli.. on.i City in the. Eine;• ind as the Lord Mi.ycr had al. 1, , 'en in t xpecta nor t sugobted. by inserting wirds to to the Loid i .oVoltt o 1 thi City of Edinburgh, W. WyN anoti . ott. ja aca the Cttitem was, l af the Metrupoli *Meted Pettlit Mr. PaaLt .p thent to oh.. ..cct, itakly Cour Lora LnC. a A s~ilcw the banicA DIV NATIONAL lIEGISTEII. stagcso and then mac --- • ~ .- FEII. 2S poommissmisir • Lord. CASTLIGREAGA resisted the amendment, which Was We / Mil/C.4 and Mr. Grattan's Resolution agree' to without a division. REGENCY. • Sir FRANCIS BURDETT •nSC to make the motion respectidz the Re gency of which he li ereviously given notice He would begin by stating what his motives were. His sole aim had ever been to secure to thl Cieren all the 1 - flu ncc and preroe•dives with whielt the Con stitution had armed it, and which were as oecessery to the suppoer of ire authority as the welfare of the people. It apeeared to him, that the privileges of the Crown had been &cid% infringe I on on two occa sions, to w'ieh the disease which afflie:s his Majesty hal witortue nately riven birth The first was in 1788. and he was convieeed that' the mede lately adopted in forming the present - Regency, hat been dic tated by imperious end violent faction, whew only oject was to re main 'hi p wer ureter every change of tretittestalice, careless how far ..itth measures ' , Heeded the people and degraied the Royea authority. It was a fundamental principle of the Coineitution that the !cog never died, because hi.s authority develyee. iteinettiately after his decease, on his bUCCerS:T. It was evident, then:lgoe, by analogy, that the Re gency belonged by right to the Heir Apparent, wit. throueli any cause Mialever, the Kis% was un,dee to Whin the dunes of his hielz office. The Hon. Baronet illustrated this position by exateples drawn from the History of England, aed enforced the danger of entrusting ter e tern al authority ter any time to otl•er hands than thole of the' Heil" A irearent. Yet, in the settlement of the Rege cy, throne)) a faction not less absurd thee uneotistittitienel, the Chancellor bad been em powered by both Hou'ses, to affix the royal seal to their own acts, as though they had been the acts of his Majesty. A similar faction might depose a King without his knowlOge, amid that su pp siti n was not so unfounded as it might appear to certain persons, since it had happened in France, donne the insanity of Charles Vl. that the Par. liament of Paris li •rt made use of the great seal to depose his son. The Honourable Baronet was as anxiens as any one liter the life of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent should be proloeged,, hut if he were to die during the life ot his Majesty, the nano , : would find itsclf once more exposed to all the inconveleences a n ts dangers of an interregnum, such as that which had preceded the present Re gency. Such an event might seem irmerobeble, and he sat. erely hnpAt it would not take place, but it would be imprudent net 'he part of the Legislature to leave such i: - npertant interests to the hands of chance, end to pay less attention to the welfare of the State than individuals do to the concerns of their famil alter them. The Hatt. llaron:t then vindicated the purity of ht, metitee, and pointed out how unfounded were those which had been attributed to him since he hail given notice of this motion. Their best refutation would be the proposition which he intended to make. He had no private end in view ; he had avoided all personality. and his only wish was to sece re to the nation the uninti rrupied exercise of the Rot al Authority. He would not even &si,rnate, in his tnoti-n, the eel son to whom the Regency should belong in case the event lie had alluded to should happen, althotieh it was his intention afterwards to name her R 0)51 Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales. tie would, therefore, content himself with " asking leave to introduce a Bill to prevent any interthetion in the exercise of the Royal Authority in case his Roy al Highness sit 'tild die during his Majesty's Life." Lord COCHRANI seconded the motion. Mr. BRAGS& BATHURST thought, that a measure of the nature of that proposed by the Honeurable Baronet ought to comers:commended by he Crow. ; and that un'ess in case of a very strong necessity, the House were net called upon to interinee! in a wiener of such delicacy. • Mr. Brarti, Lord A. Hamilton, Mr. C. W. Wynne, and Mr. Potionht• sueported the melon. Lord CASTLEREAGH thought the measure not called for on any greunds either of necessity or expediency. If he were to argue the measure on .. the grounds ef tee Honourable Baronet, his motion seemed rather haterdel to invalidate the constitutional authority oldie two former precedents of 1788 and 1810, teau to provide for airy im mediate or probable einergeecy. So far he must give the motion his decided opposition. He deprecated any revival ot those queetions ; but he thought it a great hi-ssing that iegeecrel provision Pas! been made, on most mature consideration of the whole scope of the ques tion, by the rules and maxims then laid down and acted upon, toe one of the most trying wet critical situations in which the govern.. mentor the country could nee placed. If the question wets argued on the ground of particular expediency, the danger to be provided against was bp small, so very remote, that it did not appear to affiard any sufficient reason for a legislative enactment. Mr. WHITBREAD gave his most hearty Concurrence to the motion of the Honourable Baronet. Sir V. Beieeele replied and the House then divided—when there appeared for the motion, t 9 ; Against it, 238.—Majori:ty against the ;notion, 165. Adjourned. WZIMESDAY, 'M. 21. After the presentation of a number of Catholic Petitims, and some' warm altercation between several. Irish Meihbers on the subject of them, Mr. Whitbread postponed his motion fur ppoo till alter the. Etter recess. • • Y . Mr. W. Si.tivo p ted a Petition From „the Dissen ters of all Iteseriptions in the AtiObourixa . of I,..eti4on s pray ins to be Xlielie4 • , f