The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-27 00:00:00

41t WFUNE;DAY, JUNE 23. A Comm;ttee vrac app , ,:nled to, consider the claims of Mr. Palmer on th, Pet/times t,r the Post 011iee.--The New Streets Bill was read it Peewit, time.—The 13th of the Indian Resolutions was received from the Commons.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, JUNE 24. The Lottery Bill was read a third time and passed.--The Howe having pile into a Committee on the India Resolutions, the 13th Re.olution, remitting the introduction of Missionaries into India, ICIS teal and agreed to without discussion.—Adjourned. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. FRIDAY, .11. NE 95. The held a conteience •sii!i the Commons, end expressed their c incorretiee in the resolution passed by the Common:,, re• ca mit Missionaries to Italia. Lords who conferred ware IT invfm hv, liackingliattishire, Chincarty, Dielvtlle, DlOntford p Bi•!,op ut Itedettiale, and W:tkingitatn. HOUSE Or• COMMONS. MONDAY, JUNE 21. The Er.cleFia,-4tical Conrts Bill , Insolvent Debtors' Bin, and Lot- tort 811, w , •re read a third time and passed. The Special Report of the Committee on the Heliton Election v.-, read, containing a chant' against the Duke of Leeds, fur his comfort in that [wrong,' ; it was agreed to by the House. Mr. :-.;AV cotred into a detail of the abuses w iiich existed in the bellow:1i of Helston, and on adverting to the evidence which had heen ptudoced before the Committee, proved to the House, that the influence over this borough was obtained by the Duke of Leeds, on .conditiou of paying t,7 M. per annum, which was the amount of the parish rates of all the freeholders, thereby giving to them in pro portion to their properly, a bribe to sacrifice the free c'ei rise of their judgment in the election of their Representatives. In the cotruptions of thi; ly,rongli, as well as in every other borongh Cornwa!l, Mr. Swan said the Clergy were conspicuous. He con chided by movirg, "That the Attorney-General be directed to 'no ae(lo.e George Frederick Duke of Leeds." Mr. DAVIES GIDDY thought the Duke of Leeds hod not been actuated by any corrupt motive ; he therefore considered the most substantial justice would be obtained by foregoing the prosceotion, and-throwing open the borough for the futon ; should the Honm• adopt this suggestion, he would pledge him.'elf to bring iu a Bid next Se:sion, for regolating the elections of the borough of Heiston. Mr. Bn ND said,if any similar instance of corruption in a Cornish boroigh came before the noose, he would move that the right of election be transfei red to some of the populous hundreds of York shire or Lancashire. This was the best and safest way of ettecti»g a P,lrliameiltary Reform, without the trouble and form of a specific or sv,teina tic motion. Lord A. Hl:it ii.ToN referred to the case of Croggan, confiiied sin Newgate tOr similar practice's to those charged on the Duke of Leeds, and called on the House not to make any distinctions of persons.. The House hat ins, divided, there appeared for the original mo tiou, 55 ; agiiinst it, 52. Majority againq the pioseention, Mr. BA NK E tutu obtained leave to bring hi a Bill to secure in flame the }unity of election in the borough of Helston. CORN TRADE. On the motion fur going into a Committee of the whole House, on . the Report of the Corn Trade, a long and desultory conversation arose, which ended in a division, when there appeared fur it 57,, a„ , ;iiiist it fa 'I he ITPuse having gone into the Committee, Mr. 13.1R1N0 rose ; and spoke at considerable length against the Resolutions. He thought aft if a Bill should he passed which was fotinded upon wheattu hiscad would.grow to be a luxury in country, out of the ii-tch Vic poor. • 1i r. IiAIZ it;id Mr. V.i.;stiis‘.ox defended the Resolutions. The io rep;y to Mr. Baring, said, the prices of corn had been high r cor the la,t thin• years t:;:ni was contemplated in the Bill ; Pli,a yet kVhO %vo;:id ray the: whcaicii bread had been a luxury in Lnuland, and out of the rcadi of the poor The Committee. divided on the sixth elat.,e, Ccr fixing the price at v.hich an in•purtation is to be allov;:d at the ntunbers weiez—kr the clause, ; avinst it, ie.—Adjourned. Turs . ;)%v. JUNE 22. T C : . CTTO N !rOvf nt. Sir to put ca . I. ifiltner eni , ,itirration or the poor t1;11 . for !All' 111 , /n 1 liS ; Or. divioiou took piat:e * . f.tr the motien, a 6 , ainfl. 0. ; J;:5. JUNE 27., Mr. FR EEM ANTLE, after def.:ern:4lg enormous Ames, winch he said existed in the Barrack Delon tineot of Ireland, moved that the estimates he laid before the noose. The motion was agreed to. Lord A. Ha MILTON !Roved fOr the di,charge of Mr.. Thomas. Croggan from New gate . where he has been a prisrmer for some time past, undtr an order ~r t {on c, for having improperly interfeied in procuring the return of a Reinesentative for the borough of Tregony, Mr. HOLM Es seconded the motion, and referred to the minutes of the Committee, to slim that Croggan had been found guilty on the testimony of peeinred witnesses. He also animadverted in point. ed terms on the oppression and corruption which prevailed in the borough of Tregony. A long conversation arose between 'Messes. Bankcs, Brand. C. Wynne, and Bathurst, chiefly on the point, whether Mr. Croggan should be discharged without first petitioning the House, dud uc• knowledging his guilt, which in cases of this nature had been pre. viously reqhired. Mr. Crogean's case, however, being deemed one of great hard ship, the House, by 77 against 59, agreed to Lord flami:ttm's mo tion for his discharge, and thereby, for the first time, dispen4ed with that formality. In consequence of its being stated oy Mr. C. Johnstone, that Croggan, since his confinement, has been forced 'o sleep with a common felon, it was resolved " That a Select . Committee be appointed to inquire into the circumstances of Mr. Croggan's treatment while imprisoned in the gaol of Newgate." On the Order of the day fur considering the 13th of the India Resolutions, which refers to the sending Missioners to India, Lord Castlereagh said, a very general idea had gone abroad, that it was intended to encourage an unrest , ained and uoregulated resort of persons to India, for religious purposes; pieeisely on the same ground, as it was imagined, that unrestricted and unlimited com mercial intercom se would be perinittyd to that (mutiny. Both these notion-, were founded on misconception ; a certain nomher only of Nlis , ,ionaricA would be allowed to proceed thither, under the cogni- Zallee of the Board V Directors, who were again to be controlled by the Board of Commissioners, Sir H. MONTGOMERY spoke against the Resolution as futile, and like :y to he attended with dangerous eonsegnences in He thought it would be better to commence reform on the morals of the peopte of our own Country, who, in that respect, were far inferior to the Hindoos. As a proof, lie stated that the number of com mitnivets, for various siisrenecs, in the city of Decca, containing 300,000 iniwbitants, was in tire most criminal year, out of ten; but Bi 3 persons; while the commitments for the same pt iod, fur London and Middlesex, according to a document laid on the table,, was tri:l2. Mr. WILBERFORCE, in a long aml brilliant speech, supported the Resolution. On a division, there appeared, in favour of the Resolution, 89; against it, 36. Majority, 53.—Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23. Lord A. HAMILTON moved the Order of the Day, for -.!alling Thomas Crogan to the Bar to be disdiarged, and congratulated the House on tiro abrogation of the precedent, that no person com mitted should be discharg ed but on petition. The prisoner having been brought to the Bar. the SPEAKER, after a suitable admonition on the enormity of his offence against the freedom of election and the laws and constitution of this realm, and in:otming him, that in consideration of the length of his impri sonment the House had been induced •ro consent to his diseharge„ (*tiered his discharge accordingly,- upon payment of his tees.—M r. Troggau began to say he was unable to pay the fees, when the Speaker commanded the Serjeant to take !rim away from the Bar. Leave was given to bring in a Bill to enable Commissioners of Excise to transfer Licenses from Publicans to their Successors: On the Report of the Resolution of the Coimnittee of Supply for • granting a Subsidy to Sweden being brought up,' Mr. BANK IA delivered his sentiments ou the subject ; be entered at large into the stipulations of the Treaty, which tie decidedly condemned, and for this plain reason, that it was one by which, of all others, we paid the most and got the least.. Lord CASTLERFACH replied to Mr. Bankes, and the Resolution wit% then agreed to. . • On the motion of Mr. R. WARD, 700,4991. wa voted for the Ordnance E.tiniates. The aunt ( . 4' 662,0001.. was like,wise granted fur the extraordinny expense% of the army. lii the course : of the discussion which arose on the vat - huts items of the latter Flllll, Mr. LAW argued that thee country . could net oasonably be expected to inaintain contest against Trance, tul, lets .oine - law hi the oattue Df a oonseriotiou were rcsorted to. ,