The National Register. — London, England, 1821-02-25 00:00:00

fle ( I mperianrcial Parllo ettittiihed • from page 59.) Juries 'Tito") verdicts if corrupt intenttuus were not proved against the High Sheriff? As he deemed it n matter that afferied the constitution, lie thought that house ought to Interfere. (Hear.) Hr concluded with moving that this fetisitioa be beought ap, Mr. IA LBO l' six...idea the motion, expressing his regret that the high Sheriff had heel' led to commit so violent an infraction of the constitution. The gentleman who moved the amended address uarroa ly escaped ait It life. W hen the military emered, ill Unr elllllllSilill he dropped his papers; stooping to pick them up, he e,ciiped from the blow of a but-end of a musket. Ile was really to t• to Logland to prose these facts. The him. snemb..r observed, It ihe go vet 1111 l rot would remove religious distitictimis—would give back the Irish their pailiament —and ceive to tax the Ii ii of 'lOOl . ll, their would he an cod of those di-tractions a hick agitated that ill-fated country.—( Hear, hem.) The petit was then hiou4lit up. It ails DI great length. It aus then read amidst the must profound aural of the house. Ordered to be printed. Lord J- RUSSELL then moved, that the petition be re ferred to it select committee. Mr. C. GRANT began with remarking, though it might be uonecessaty to make the observations that the go vcru- Client of Ireland had no conuection with the arrangements adopted by the High Sheriff at the kilinainhato meeting, either he collet:Wig or the introduction of the iii.litiiry, it also might hr unnecessary to state, a hat he hail found to be true. since his connection with the Irsli government. that government wits unfriendly to the introduction of the mili tary, where that aid could he dispensed aitlt. As to the proposition of the motile hod, he contended that the facts, were more likely to be ascsrtained before a jury ; and if the parities relied on the facts, if they were confident of a ti i ungallant result folloa hug investigation, he could not con. ceive aby they should tit sire enquiry before that Helete rather that' before a Jury. He was against the inquiry of that house; he its for upholding the supremacy of the L.., and therefore he must oppose the motion. Mr. M. FITZGERALD dremed the arguments adduced agniust stir ITII/111111 to be atolls inemiclusise. It was a question of the coustitutitio, anti theleftomlit held It in b e li t for the cognisance of pal liament al/Ile/AI to the Grand Jury of the comity of Dublin would he to appeal to the parties who were implicated and interested in the question at issue 6 and therefore he was a:;ainst the question tieing referred to such an authority - . He held that enquiry before that Loose alone (void be effectual. The house divided tin Lnrti J. Russell's moi iou, when the ambers were, fur referring the petition to a Con:tattler O, against it Ml.—Majority agninst the er.iition 31. The other orders a ere disposed aunt! the house adjourned at twelve o'clock. FIIIA•1*, IFEE. 23. A petition was presented sum av owners and occupiers of land in 6ussea, eomplitining of agriculturist distress. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the ship owners of Shields against ally altetution in the Timber Duties. Mr. J. LOCK presented a petition from the Atclieleaconry of Leicester against any alter.ition of the laws allecting Roniaa Catholics. 11r. Sergeant ()NSLOW gave notice, that on the 4th April he should move fur leave to bring in at Bill to repeal the usury laws. CO*DUCT OF MR. JUSTICE BEST,—Mr. DENMAN pre "tented a petit ion from l'hoinas I)4V ISM), late of Duke-street, Smithfield, huolurller, complaiiiing of the conduct of Mr. Jai-tire Best during petitioner's trial. He represented that he was filled three times in the (41111 W of his defence by the learned Judge. This was a subject tic (Mr. 1).) thought of illiii.1111111011:11 11111101 saner, rather than of legal consequence, and theiefore iii.ll ninth) the cosi-ides at ion of the house.— It was new, and the petitioner urged sestet al cases of g real provocation, where the judges had assumed uo such powers; pal Ocularly in the cases of Sir Waller Raleigh, el &Vane ' Basta irk, Sec ; Col. Lilburne's case win also mentioned;—they attacked their prosecutors with great vi rulence—some of them uttering what was called treason— und yet the Court never thought of inflicting fines. The defendant distinctly asserted that the sclera! flues bad so in timidated him i hat he was unable to make the best use of his faculties. 'lke tines, it was true, had been remitted ; but had nut that beet' the case, the hothinember much questioned ss !whet they could lie euthi red.—As to the cative of the first line—the reflection on the Bar, that all honest counsel could not be found. lie was at a boss to conceive how that caul,* be construed into modem pt of Court." He hoped the petition touching so novel mid unprecedented a prac tice mould receive the consideration of the house; and if • received any encouragument, he should move to refer it to a committer. Ile did not know, untie, tie peculiar cir cumstances of the case, w lteiher it was not a tit subject to address the Crows' for a remission of the seutence. lie thought it might be argued that the ducts ine of contempt did nut apply to the defendants: autl in the present instance lie thought the defendant was making his defence hunt: Ale. Mr. illoitllOUSE bierundedi the motioti, that the petition be brought up, considering that the case was tune that ealicd for the most serious cousideration of the Impute. lie hod not been able to Sind any care that justified the Judge's comiut t Sowards Davison; and according to Coke, where there was non-usage, it was strung proof that the law would not bear it. Contempt of Court ails generally widerstood to apply to scornful conduc t and ri sistance of the oilicers, anti of process. Where n man bad been fined fur contemptuous words towards the Court, it w as said by the J edge that it would have been better to nicht I the patsy, lit the ease of William Penn, the net-ostler of London (Jelleties) had lined Penn to musks fur not pulling WI his Ind; and the conduct of the J edge was held lilt to be praiseworthy - and justifiable. Sur, I) that conduct, it Inch ltil• not justifiable in Jaren ics, would hadly he held anti:int:dile ill modern times. The ATI °RNLI' tiENEIt AL said, that the legality of the judge's conduct had not even been questioned by the learned gents titan opposite. The defendant had been elmiged with a blasphemous libel. It charged the 110 ill. fill es to be hard with teilheliuoth and blasphemies. 1 - 111 S was only a spec:taro of the libels. lo the (1/111:•C of the de fence the titan haute the most virulent attacks on the judge; amongst other things, telling him to prepare the elinigetin, ere. Thr-Le had been no interruption so lung a reasucable defence was purstied. Arcot ding to the ducti Me now contended tor, a defendant, because he was deft-admit, ass to By) abet he pleased ; he was to atter NU' no wait else a` 111:Ul‘td to say. Mr. CHLEVEY ajl, the cliaige was for doing that which nu other judge had ever done before. tact was, Mr. Justice Hest was a moat intemperate judgc—i.e Nab an at LeiCasxler, amid ou the tr ial of Davison. When in the Linnet . , his conduct was whilst. Ile travelled from THE NATIONAL REGISTER side to side. He was a political judge, and he lied tra velled in all directions, till he arrived whet e he now was. —Hu repeated his opinion, that Justice Best was an in temperate judge. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL condemned the there. I hat had been preferred of the judge having been actu ated by resentment. Mr. CREEVEY.-1 disavow such language. I said no thing about resentment. I declared Justice Best to be an intemperate judge, and I am of the seine opinion still. The SOLICITOR-GEN ER AL said, whatever might be ten arked of the judge, what road they think of the member's temperate cominet ? Was tht•re no intem perance al t r—(Cheers.) —As to the case of Sir F. Burdett, what part of it showed the intemperance of the judge ? All the judges had immleinned the libel as being of a malignant character. In the instance of I)4v koti, the legality of Just ice Be•st's conduct bail beet) admitted by all the judges; and that being the fact, would it not be a most inconvenient course fur the house to revise the decision of a court of taw. Mr. SCA ItLET r had no doubt that a judge might flue or imprison for contempt, and that a defendant might be guilty of contempt; but he considered that a dt•fendaut ought to be allowed great latitude. Lord CASTLERRAG II said, that the petition might be brought up and read, but as to the pr, pt iety of receiving it, would it he useful to have a pylon it regarding which the judge•, who had revised 3I r. Justice Best's conduct, hail unanimously admitted to be legal. The right of pe tition could never be brought into disrepute, except by the abuse of it; and there was a growing disposition— which was not discouraged by lion. members—to drag every question into that house. Since the house had as. sentbled this st ssion, more than one half of its time hail been t: copied by petitions—(Cheers from the Opposition) —he meant respecting points of a legal nature. (Hear.) Mr. J. P. GRANT protested agairst the noble lord's language, the tendency of which was, that membets were to admonish the subject not to present petitious of a cer tain nature. If petitions were I especttully worded, how could anti• member refuse to present them?—(Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT said, that the noble lord wished the right •f petition to he alnidged. Justice Best might be war. ranted by the law, but he denied that it was justified by any practice of the law The Commous of England ought to intro fere. (Cheers.) Mr. C. HUTCHINSON supposed that he most have misunderstood the noble lord (Castlereagh) in what he had said, tie understood him to say that he (Lord C.) was not in the house when the petition was presented, but that lie had understood (loon 41111011. friend, that what had been said of it was sufficient for him to object to its being bi ought up. lie (Mr. H.) was not in the house when the Pennon was pi esented ; he had nut heard any of its cote. tents ; and, lor aught he knew, the language might justify i•a rejection. lie supposed, however, that if it wet e objectionable in its general character, it would not hare been introduced : but was it to be endured that a tuinis ter of that house, one of those who had acted as ministers had dune with respect to the Continent—men who had tyranny and not liberty in their hearts—was it, he asked, to be endured, that such a minister shutild, on what he had heard from another member, declare that a petition, complaining of a grievance, and which he had not heard, 'Mnd not be brought tip ? Was it not too intuit that the petitions of the people should be thus treated? that it should be assumed that the petitions of the people were s• immoral, seditious, and blasphemous, as they ought not even to be heard? What was this but saying to the pt ple,—.. I will instill coil by my conduct on the Contiumit of Europe—l will, by my management in this country, goad you to madness, and then I will not listen to your petition? I will, Isom what I have been informed by another member, or limn what 1 have fancied in my own wild imagination, maintain that your petitions must not he heard." He (Mr. H.) was as ignorant of what the petitioo contained as the noble lord had stated himself to be, but lie would never suffer a minister in that house thus to declare against hearing a petition without express ing his strong condemnation of such conduct. After an extended discussion on th question, the house divided on the question. The numbers were, Ayes 37 — Noes ; the petition was accordingly rejected by a Ma jority 0121. Tile further consideration of the repot t of the Grain pound Disfrauchisemeut Bill was postponed by Lord J. Russell. Mu. 111 NIE then brought forward his motion on the subject of the expenditio e of the lonian Isles, and tor eill I of die civil and military establishm. Upon this motion a lung discussion took place, in wide). 31r. Goulbtarn, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Bernal, Sir IL Par nell, and others took a part. Thu motions of Mr. Hittite were agreed to without a division. The souciTOß-GENERA L obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable a Judge to sit out of'fern to dispose of certain motions which could now Inc taken only nil erni time. _ . . 'I lie orders of Ike day, and the remaining business Ile% ing been dispos, 41 of, the house adjourned. There has recently been a considerable demand for particular kinds of manut'actured goods, and the prices of weaving have accordingly been somewhat advanced. We can scarcely venture to say the improvement has been general, for a great variety of goods arc not at all advanced, and some descrip tions are even lower than they were two months since; but considering the very low price of yarn, we take it to be a favourable indication of trade that goods are not materially lower, and the reduction in price, where it has taken place, is not equivalent to the prices of yarn. About the end of last year, in Manchester goods maintained their prices, notwith standing the depression which usually takes place in that rea,nn. The demand there has been steady throughout the winter. The weavers have been all employed, at tolerably Mir wages, which, with the low price of provisions, have placed them in comparative comfort. It is to be hoped that the *orcign demand, which has been considerable these lust two months, will continue ; and perhaps it is nut too touch to expect that, as the spring advances, it will increwe. FROM TUESDAY NiGlii".4 GAZETTE. This Gazette notifies, that the King has been pleased to Nominate and appoint Vice Admiral Sir Geo. Martin, Knight Commander of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Most lion. Military Order, vice Admiral Sir George Campbell deceased. BANKRUPTCY SUPF.B.SEDRD. T. F. Power, London Street, City, merchant. BANKRUPTS. J. Ewing, Liverpool, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs. Slade and Jones, John Street, Bedford Row. F. Dineley. Pershore, Worcestershire, money scrivener. Sole. Messrs. Williatns and NVliite, Lincoln's Inn. J. R. End cott, Exeter, builder. Sole. Messrs. Mae and Co. Red Lien Square. M. Ivens. Upper Shuekburgli, Warwickshire, grazier. Sole. Messrs. Fuller and Co. Regent Street. W. hens, Fleeknoe, Warwickshire, grazier. Sole. Messrs. Fuller erd Co. Regent Street. H. Ivens, Byfield, Northamptonshire, tanner. Sols. Messrs. Fuller and Co. Regent Street. J. Robertson. Newcastle upon Tyne, silversmith. Sols. Messrs. Meggison and l'oolc, Gray's Inn. G. Clark, Blackburn, Lancashire, grocer. Sol. Mr. Blake lock, Sergeant's Inn. It. Wood, Kendal, Westmoreland, bookseller. Sol. Mr. Carpenter. Furnival's Inn. W. Hebdin, Leeds, woollen cloth manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Wilson, Greville Street, Ilatton Garden. J. Browne, senior, Leeds, woollen cloth manufacturer. Sal. Mr. Wilson, Greville Street, Hatton Garden. T. Benham, Poole, builder. Sols. Messrs. Alexander and Holine. New Inn. J. Cane mole, Framlingliam, Suftblk, merchant. Sul.. Messrs. Bromley, Gray's Inn Square. .1. Pollinger. Itehingswell, Southampton, tanner. Sol. Mr. Allen, Clitihrd's Inn. J. hartratn, Canterbury, linen draper: Sol. Mr. Jones, Size Lane. W. Hodges, Newington Causeway, Surrey, straw hat menu. facturer. So!s. .Messrs. Jones and Howard, Mincing Lane. DIVIDENDS. March 14, G. Bellaire, Leicester, banker-14, J. and W. Jackson, Dowgate Wharf, hankers-16, T. Silas&ll, Barton Bendish, Norfolk, cattle jobber-16, 'l'. Tipping, Warrington, Lancashire, miller—t 9, W. Watts, Manchester, calico printselkr —l6, D. Watt, Southwick, Durham, ship builder-16,1'. Burge, Frome Sclwood, Somersetshire, carrier-16, T. Green, Liver. pool, auctioneer-17. J. and C. Bligg, Hatfield, Herts. COIIIIIIO4 brewers-17, G. Dann, Linton, Kent, butcher-17, M. and G. J. Ross, Dowgate Hill, merchants-16, G. 3larshall„ Bristol, corn factor-14, J. Saunderson, Sutton, and T. Masters, Putton. Bedfordshire, common brewer. CERTIFICATES to be granted March 13. J. W. Hayton, Greenfield, Fli,ttshire, wire manufacturer— W. 11. Lawrence, Bath. linen draper—T. Peacopp, Liverpool, wine merchant—G. and F. Atkinson, Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, corn merchants—G. Webb, Cornhill, dealer—T. Dellin, Bir mingham, dealer—P. Clayton, Waterloo Place. Pall Mall, saddler—l. Marston, Birmingham, coal dealer—E. Woolley. Bilston, Staftbrdshirc, iron master—J. Ilenderson, Ludgate Hill, liner, draper—M. Daly, Blackman Street, Southwark, dealer in spirits. TOLL ON BLACEF.RIARS BRIDGE. Thursday a meeting was bell! at Wizard's Hotel, Great Surrey-street, for the purpose of publicly consi. deriug the propriety of taking steps on the part of the inhabitants of Kent and Surrey, of preventing a horse and carriage toll from being levied upon illackfriars bridge. At one o'clock, tlitre being several gentlemen of pm. perty present, Mr. Lett was called to the chair. lie undertook that office but temporarily, having to attend another meeting upon the same subject. Shortly after he resigned the chair to another gentleman, previously declaring his entire concurrence in the object of the meeting. Mr. Mavatore opened the business of the day, by stating that the City of London had recently presented a petition to parliament for leave to bring in a bill for levying a toll upon all horses, carriages, and cattle, passing over Black friars-bridge, by an:, establishment of which lie considered a great injury would be inflicted upon that very large portion of the public who had pro. perty at the Surrey side of the water. Among many other reasons of couver.iv nee which he urged against the projected measure were the following, which were embothed in a printed paper, intended to be sent to parliament as contaMing a digest of the reasons which were considered as conclusive against the Mil. • That if the proposed new toll was established, there would be three distinct tolls payable within two utiles south of the bridge; in addition to the present city toll on all non-freemen'scarts, &c. That in conseywnce of the great traffic over the bridge, a toll gate or bar thereon, would occasion a con. stain stoppage and great inconvenience, if not frequent dander to the public. That such proposed toll would also be highly injuri ous to the public markets in the vicinity of the bridge. That the estates of the City of London are much improved in value, by the erection of the bridge, said their met:ones are daily increasing to a very considerable extent, by the great number of houses recently built, and now building, in lilackfriars-road and the neigh. bourhood of St. Georges Fields, so that in addition to the reason first above stated, it is conceived the City of London ought to repair the bridge out of their own funds, and not attempt to occasion such an unnecessary expellee and annoyance to the public as that IlaW posed. Nlr. Meyrnott wis followed by Mr. lianas, who equally complained of the conduct of the City of Lou don, in attempting to palm upon Surrey and Kent (for that would he the tiit'CL of LI toll) the expellees of repair. ing the bridge. The Rev. Rowland hill, Nit% Walsh, and many other Gentlemen, took a part in the business of the day, and the result was the adoption of a string of Resolutions, and the declaration of a determination to petition Parlia ment, if the Corporation of London were determined tu persevere with their hill. An Ukase of the Emperor of ltussia has been pub lished at Warsaw, ordering a levy on the kingdom of Poland of 4,000 conscripts, to ompletothe ratty.