The National Register. — London, England, 1822-05-26 00:00:00

16 t Imperial Perrtiament eont:nuell from page 161. roittee on naval and military pensions, called the attention of the House to the resolutions on this subject, agreed to on the 3d of May last, Ile described the resolutions. The pensions were considered in the nature of a public debt, the House re cognizing the propriety of relieving the finances from the pres sure of such charge by an equable arrangement of the same With this view it was preposed to spread the charge over 43 •ears, though then the debt might not be extinguished. The House recognized the principles. When the resolutions were agreed to, be !wort-mica to take measures to carry them into elect; mid the proposition had been considered with candour. But is point of feet no bidding. had been made, though many communications from several bodies had taken place. He now hoped to submit propositions that would give satisfaction. He proposed that the charge should be separated ; that trustees shoeld be named by and under the contronl of Parliament ; and if any gain should result from the transaction, the benefit to go to the public.—Tbere were to be invested in the hands of those trustees the sum of 2,800,0001. calculating the rite of interest at 31 per cent. That brought the annuities to the amount he had stated. He had taken the calculation at 100,0001. less than what the biddings might have been—a matter to be re membered when they considered the remission of the tax. To superintend the annuities to be created, there were to be four trustees, the Chaireellor of dm Exchequer, paymasters, S:c.— His third resolution regarded the means of carrying the plan into effect, to make certain sales, or the Treasury to advance Exchequer Bills. The plan would thus operate advantageously when the long annuities had been created. The dividends were to be paid in October and April—and thus means for the January and July payments would be provided. In five years the anmant to be met would be reduced to 4,100,0001, The annui ties to be lodged is the hands of trustees would, in time, inert the charge in its reduced form. The whole plan would of course be connected with the sinking fund.—(Hear.)—No sum however was to be taken from the commissioners; the five millions were to remain unimpaired in their hands. That sink ing fund was not to be touched. By the plan there would be a easing to the public 0f2,200,0001.—but the remission of taxes conhl no+ be to that amount, as there were some growing. charges to he provided for—but 400,0001. it was calculated would answer the put pose. That sum, the 400,0001 he should propotte should he added to the sinking fund till it should be wanted ; it would (hue operate to reduce the debt and Ow the burden of the country. Ile might be considered as haling anticipated the resolutions before be came to the particular views of the government; and with Hue ultimate views he had proposed that certain tax hills should he referred to the com mittee. Is the first place. there was no tax that it was ►o de sirable materially to reduce as the salt tax.—(Year.) —plc should propose to give op thirteen shillings out of fifteen.— Hear.)—The tax at present produced 1,51%0001. ; the re daction would amount to 1,300,0001. He also proposed the duly in Scotland from Os. to 2s. so that the dote worth' be the same in England, Scotland, and Ireland. lie likewise proposed to repeal the Irish hearth sold window tax, producing hardly 230,0001., the leather tax laid on in 1812, producing 300,0001. the tonnage on ships homewards and outwards, producing 160,0001. These repeals and reductions would be altogether 2.000,0001. (Cheers,) He concluded with moving the follow ing resolutions :- 1. That is the opinion of this Committee, that for the pur pose of apportioning, conformably to the resolutions of this House of the 3d day of this instant month of May, the burden occasioned by the military and naval pensions, it is expedient that an equal anneal annuity of £2,800,000 terminable at the end of 43 years, should, from the sth day of April, 1822, be seated is trustees to he named hr Parliament ; and that the said amenity should be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the said trustees should pay into the Exchequer the several annual sums hereinafter mentioned. by four equal quarterly instalments, on or before the 15th January, the 13th April, the 13th July, and the 20th October ; the first payment thereof to be made on the 20th October, 1822.--(llere follow a series of annually de creasing sums, from £4,900.000 in the ensuing year to £300,000 in the year ending the 15th July, 1867.] —And that the said several sums, or such part thereof as may he necessary shoolti be appropriated and applied conformably to the said re solutions. 3. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that for the pur pose of enabling the said trustees to make the several pay ments bereinbefore mentioned, at the Exchequer, at the several periods aforesaid, they should he empowered, from time to time. to sell and dispose of so much of the said annuity as may be necessary for that purpose, but so as that no greater amount of annuity should be sold or disposed of, in any one year, than would be sufficient to raise the sums necessary to complete the whole of the payments to be made within the year, or to disolivrge and pay the principal and interest of any Exchequer bills which rosy have been issued on account of such payments. 4. That it is the opinion of this Committee, gist for the pur pose of enabling the said trustees the more readily to provide the means necessary for making the said payments, in the most convenient and economical manner, the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury should be empowered to issue, to the said trustees, Exchequer bills, to an amount not exceeding the sums necessary for completing from time to time the said payments ; which Exchequer bills, together with the interest thereupon, should from time to time be discharged and satisfied by the said trustees out of any loonies to arise by the sale of the said cunuitius, or out of the dividends thereof ; and that, until such payment, the interest accruing on such Exchequer bills may be paid out of any supplies voted by Parliament. Mr. Calcraft, Sir J. Newport. &c. congratulated the House . . . . is hating elrected these reductions. Mr. HUME wished that the taxes had been repealed alto gether, as the collection of those duties cost upwards of &40,000 a year. He also wished that the scheme growing out of the resolutions should be carried into effect by the sinking Fund Cmuinissio era , that would save the expence and ma- cbinery of new Commissioners. He concluded with moving as Cr, amendment, that the £2,00.000 that would be wanted fur the next 16 years. should be taken from the Sinking Fund. Lord LONDONDERRY opposed thin proposition, and said that the reductions of taxes were Mt the result of opposition, but the consequence of sopped the government bkd experi enced. Mr. WILLIAMS was in favour of the amendment. Mr. CRIPPS supported the original resolution ; as to the proposed repeal of the Salt Tax, he was convinced, toshss ►omething was said to explain it to the public, they would de live hut little advantage from it. Captain MADENLEY was in favour of taking the money warted from the Sinking Fond. Mr. 31 ARUN was of dm saineopinion, The gallery wa! then cleared for a dibition on Mr. Hume's amendment-- For the resolution of dm Chancellor of the Ex c!le•ptcr, 114. —for Mr. Hume's srae•utlment 33—Majority for `eimsteis 60 THE NATIONAL REGISTER Several other resolutions, as to the mode of paving the en nuiiants. &c. were put and agreed to. The noose resumed, the chairman reported progress, sad the report was ordered to be received on Thursday next. The American Trade Bill and the Colonial Trade Bill went through committees.—Report on l'ridey nest. Mr. MARTIN moved the second reading of the 111-treat ment Animals' Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill should be reed a second time this day six months. Upon this amendment a long conversation followed. The House divided. For the amendment for the second reading 79, majority in favour of the bill 11. The bill was then read a second time. and committed for Monday week. Adjourned at 12 o'clock to Thursday next. FROM TUESDAY SVC:DT'S GAZBTTE, BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. R. W. Dean and T. W. Cooke, Bethnal Green, brewers. BANKRUPTS. _ _ _ _ _ ..... _ _ J. Heys, Stockport, Cheshire, draper. Solicitor, Mr. Bettye, Chancery Lane. I. Blythe, Wellington, Shropshire, draper. Sols. Messrs. A dlingun. and Co. Bedford Row. W. and H. Breedon, ltuddington, Nottinhaunshire, dealers in horses. Sole. Mtssrs. Long and Co. Gray's Inn. W. Colson, Plymouth, grocer. Sols. Messrs. Swain and Co. Ohl Jewry. J. Joplin, Sunderland, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. Bell and Co. Bow Churchyard. T. Newton, Holbeach, Lincolnshire. and W. N. Newton, West Walton, Nortolk„ jobbers. Soh. Messrs. Willis and Co. Waunford Court, Tlaroganorton Street. J. S. and A. E. Fowler, Liverpool, merchants. Sol. Mr. Taylor, John Street, Bedford Bow. W. Pensold, Cluttom Somersetshire, budder. Sol. Mr. Bu:— foot, Temple. J. Collins. Vincent Place, City Road, broker. Sol. Mr. Fen ton, Austinfriars. T. Kent. Karton Holme, Lincolnshire, butcher. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. .1. and W. Dodd, Kirkoateald, Cumberland, grocers: Sol. \lr. Badye, Chancery Lane. W. Humphreys, Billecdon, Leicestetsbire, draper. Sols. Messrs. Moore and Co. Nov Square, Lincoln's Inn. %V. Gibson and F. FIIMIII, Trinity Square. corn factors. Sols. ,Messrs. Parnther and Co. London Street. Fenchurch itreet. E. Fulton, Earl Str:er, Blackfnors, coal tuercluutts. sul. Mr. Bowman, Union Court, Broad Street. DIVIDENDS. May 25, A. Kelly, Colonnade, Pall Mall, jeweller-25, T. Mulligan, Bath, silk mercer-25, P. Young, jun. and It. An derson, %Yapping. sail makers—lune 11, W. Ambrose, (lepton, &open ter—i I, .1. Gregory, Blackwall, butcher-1 1. It. Needham, Queen's Buildings, Brompton Road, silversmith-11, R. Lincoln, St. James's. Street, hatter -12, R. Sallows, Hadleigh, Suffolk, grocer—lS, S. Leigh, Strand, bookseller—z), R. Reynolds, Shobrooke, Devon, tanner--12, C. Martin, Great Yarmouth, linen dzaper 7 -4, S. Humphreys, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, merchant-7, T. Tipping, Warring on, miller—l 3, T. Freame, Worcester, cabinet maker-12, W. Watkins, Worm,. ter, corn factor-12, It. APKay, Knittsford, Cheshire. liner. draper-12, .1. Smith. F lirewsbury, linen draper-14, W. Wilson, Gateshead, Durham, ship owner—ll, T. Perkins, Manchester, and S. Armstrong, New Mills, Derbyshire, cotton spinners —IS, J. Cook, Helmsley, Yorkshire, merchant-21, E. Mason, Wor cester, tea dealer, and J. Penn, Birmingham, soap boilers. CERTIFICATES to be granted June I I. .1. Ripley, Wapping High Street, mathematical instrument maker—P. Reynolds, King Street. Southwark. cluntunan—W. Banton, Nonhwich, Cheshire, grocer—C. C. IVright, Crooked Lane, upholder. L4l 1 , INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MONDAY, MAY 20. THE JOHN BULL NEWSPAPER. THE SING V. WLAVEK, t4DACKEI.L. AND ARROWMITH. Ass as the Judges had taken their seats, these de fendants appeared on the fluor of the Court to receive judgment. Mr. Justice Bayley addressed them in nearly th e following terms:— „ Yoe have been found guilty of publishing in a news. paper called the Johw Bull, during the months of February, March', April, and May, 1821, tise libels on her late Ma jesty. When you were last before the Court, those libels were statediutliciently for the purposes of justice, and they must be too fresh in the recollection of all to need repetition at present. No one can doubt that in point of law they are each and every one of them a hard, as they greatly exceed the tilting bounds of newspaper discussion. A newspaper is the 'Holier vehicle for intelligence ; its pages may also be open to sober, calm, unimpassioned disquisitiou, but it must never be the medium of titivate or mil political calumny. At the time ashen you were last before the Court, you said nothing to aggravate your of fence. The Conn observe that you are now in custody for another libel, not unconnected with the subject of lime peseta charge, but that none of these passages were pub lished sluice the former sentence was pronounced on you. Had you, after the warning you then received, offended in the same way, in defiance of the Court, it would have been a high aggravation of your present ctime. One of you,Thomas Arm owsmitli, has made an affidavit, confirmed by a medical gentleman, stating that lie labours under an 1 1 indisposition which additional imprisonment would in el ease, amid which may thus endanger his life ; that is not the object of time Court, who ate always desirous of listen. log to every thing which can be urged in mitigation of punishment. It turbealance shall be exercised towards this defendant, in consideration of his infirmity, I trust that it will have its due influence on his mind, mud induce haul to make a suitable return for the mercy shown him, by refraining from s' 'tar publications in future. The Conti, taking all time circumstances of the case into its consideratiors, do order and adjudge, that yon Thomas Al VOW smith do pay a fine of 2001. to the King; amid that you Robert Thomas I%'eaver, and yon William Sliackell, be severally imprisoned in the King's Bench prison for three mouths, and do each of you pay to the King a tine ut Ittel.; and that you do all give security fur your good behaviour for live yenta, yourselves in MAC aud two sure ties in 2501. each, and that you be imprisoned till such fines be paid, and such seem ities given." The defendants bowed, and left the Conrt iu custody. THN MING U. 7716 .11.6TICES UP FI.IQ.TSHIR L. Mr.bearlett showed cause against a rule. calling on the j u , t i eet , of the emitity of Flint to *hew cause why a cer tiorari should not issue directed to them, to lenitive into this court an order merle by them, or home of them, at a general quarter session of the peace, holden at Mold, nil the 12th of July last, fur levying 20U. bs. lid. and emit As ering the cuusity ile.l.llrer to apply it in pat t pay uarut of ;he clamp ul M1:421a. %duke). The le.alued CUlillisti orated, that at the Easter quieter sessions of the peace, in 1812, an order had been made authorizing the county treasurer, who was since dead, to borrow 1,0001. towards csusyiug on the county works then in progress. This sum he bor rowed of the house of Messrs. Sankey, at Holywell, and deposited with them the order, by way of security for the loan, and also borrowed further sums for the comity pur poses, making in the whole a debt of 1,3821. las. 4il. These sums were certainly repaid by November, 1514 ; but subsequently to that time he hail burrowed other semi from them to the amount of 1,6411.55. 10d. which, in No. weather, 1812, was reduced, by various payments, to the suns of 4471. Lis. 6d. Dating all this time the original order remained as a security for advances to be made, as it was never intruded that the whole 1.0001. should be ad vanced at once, but only when required by the exigencies of the county. The partners in the tirtn, except one, had in the mean lime been changed ; and the new partners had continued to advance money on the faith of the co i ginsl order until the balance of 4 471. 15s. 6d. was left doe to them. In October, 1820, Messrs. Sankey applied to the quarter sessions (Or payment of this balance, and an order was made to pay them the whole, but they Inflame then to press for payment, at the request of the magistrates, in consequence of local circumstances; and on their repeat ing the application, the order to pay the 2001 ss. 6d. now complained of, was made. It had been suggested that these sums were advanced to the late treasurer in his pri vate capacity. and hail been applied by him to his private purposes; bust the fact was quite otherwise; fur the par ties had been at the trouble of tracing how all the monies had been disposed of, and they had found that all were duly applied to the :egitimate purposes of the comity. The Lord Chief Justice.—Let us hear the order. Mr. Park read the order, which was professedly to levy the sum of 2001. ss. 6d. by a rate, to be paid over to Mr. Sankey. The Lord ChiefJostice.—l cannot think this rate good on the face of it. It is a rate professedly to reimburse. which I think the magistrates cannot order ; the applica tion or the iii y raised is a very different thing. Mr. Scarlett said, the magistrates %vete authorized to boo low by statute, The Lord Chief Justice.—Then they should have pur sued the course prescribed in the statute. 'l'he certiorari must issue; but probably all parties will be satisfied by the understanding that the practice shall cease in the county.—Rule for the certiorari absolute. THE SLING U. WESTAIACOTT AND OTHERS. Mr. Common Seigtunt showed cause against else rule ob tained by Mr. Turbo, for a crimilial information against the editor and publisher' of the Gazette of Fashion, for a libel, is Inch, ;professing to be part of au exposure of the gambling houses in the metropolis, imputed to Mr. Fielder, not only that he was concerned in revcial, but that he had caused pistols to tie plated within the reach of his brother, who nits insane, with which he shut himself, nod that he forged ibis bivalve's will. Th.- learned counsel said that, unless the prosecutor were conscious that be was implicated in gambling transactions, he could scarcely have had an derstood that the paragraph o us applicable to himself. lie was called " Field Marshal John, Commander'-- Mr. Justice Bayley inquired if the prosecutor had not been convicted of keeping a gambling-house in that couit, because lie remembered his surprise that a person of that name bad not been brought up Fur judgment. M r. Calm ttttt Sergeant.—lt is tee same, my Lord ; be is a very opulent person. Mr. Turtim.-1 did oat know that money could divert the strrom of justice. The imputations complained of are quite of snootier Wirt iption. .Mr. Common Sergeant replied. that they were undoubt edly aloes itnputations which lie did not Mean to justify. But there were also parts of the articles, charging Mr. Fielder with being proprietor of gambling-bouses. and with 'lame been convicted in that court, which lie bad not ven tured to deny. Now, be apprehended, that a party made out no case fur ti criminal sofurnuit ion unless he denied the whole charge. If a person had been accused of murder and burglary, would the Court interfere to protect him when lie only snore that lie ass ionoeenl of the first ? Here also the principal defendant had cleared himself, in a great measure, by swearing. that lie did nut know the author of the libel, that he had never seen it before it ace printed, that he can celled the sheet as soon as be perceived it, and sent ;a offer Mr. Fielder any reparaii tttt which he might desire. Under these circumstances, he submitted, there was no reason why Mr. Fielder should darn the extraordinary interference of the Court tor his protection. Mr. C. Phillips, on the same side, contended, that the prosecutor, ii,i4ninst whom unless than semi indictments for assaults or frauds had been preferred, ought to be left 11l seek redress front the ordinary tribunals. lie would be well conversant with the modes of proceedings in all of them if sent to the lillaiol4l, there he had been before; if brought into this Court, be was still at home. It was aviog wily to the mercy of the prosecutor that he was out now standing on that door to mare the judgment of their Lordships. Mr. Justice Best.-1 believe yon are giving the prose- Calor credit for a motive to which he is nut at all entitled. Mr. Talon, in reply, admitted, that it' his client hail made the imputation of gambling the ground of his com plaint, he insist have denied it on oath ; but here he coin planed of charges of murder and forgery, for which there was not the slightest funndation. (limiting, for the sake of argument, that lie had kept gambling houses, was this any reason why °Helices should be imputed to him which would affect his life ? Because in 1817 lie had been con victed of keeping a g g house, was lie in 1824 to be accused of clones of the deepest dye in the case of persons of very exalted rank, the Court hail interfered, Although they had been guilty of the very offence on which the libel was founded. And surely it was not for the interests of the public peace that any iodividua world be thus libelled without immediate redress, as he could thus be tempted to execute for himself justice. The Lord Chief Justice.-1 hope it will not be under stood that the Court mean to hold oat that such libels may be published with run; • y. This ease can be a prece dent to very few, b cause I hope it will have but fee parallels. We think the tale most be discharged, and the party left to his artillery remedies. Sittings niter Term at Guildhall &fora the Lord Chi, !talks. WEDNESDAY, MAT 82. MASON U. MOLINE AND oTIILIta. This action was brought by the plaintiff, a brewer's agent. against the defendants, assignees of Barker and Hodson, who carried on the business of brewers, at Stratford, to recover s e uiLe y ns au nt d io i l: ro o c f u o r e i te ng an a d paurliceilifaLerr efoertzlsiiterhathfoeredlaixd,,ellulr ag . which the assignees sold for the benefit of the creditors. Mr. Niatrystt stated the case. It appeared, that in 1821, • meeting of creditors under the commission took place fur this .t