The National Register. — London, England, 1822-02-10 00:00:00

o:iver, Fletcher, and Franklin; but will such measures conciliate the Irish nation—will the noble minded people of Ireland ever be rendered really subject to England by means of the cat-of-nine-tails, or the other instruments of torture, which were the intimates of the Castle Yard regulations during the rebellion P—to these questions we answer no ! and we defy the most perfect casuist to controvert suc cessfully our opinion.—Let a people partake of bene fits through its Government and they will respect it —even let them doubt whether they are most injured or served by it, and they will be anxious 66 Rather to bear the ills they have " Than ey to others that they know not of." But suppose a nation solely, hearing of the laws they are governed by when those laws are to be placed in activity fur their injury—a nation obliged to contribute to a race of clergy, existing in a state of unbeneficial laziness, or absence, and whose very Creed they hold as heretical, and can it be expected that such a people so situate will " Kiss the hand that's raised to shed its blood ?" The system may triumph fur a shor time—hut conciliation, emancipation, and a series of acts of liberal concession, will be the only means of securing the loyalty, the esteem, and the love of the Irish nation. Such means are alien to the wishes of the present Ministers, and that fact is an additional incentive to the wish of every honest man for their speedy removal. In respect to general news, the French papers of Wednesday are very barren, but are in no small degree amusing in their reports of the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies. When the President proceeded, according to form, to put the first pa ragraph of the law to the vote, the most extraor dinary scene followed. The following extracts will furnish an example:— M. Benjamin Constant.—We protest, in the faec of France of which we are the representatives. M. Demarcay.—We wilt vote. M. Corcelles.—lt is an infamous law. M. Keratry.—We will not be accomplices in the de struction of all our liberties. Here the greatest disorder ensued in the Chamber :— almost all the exit ern. , left, rose wish a menacing air; toe right, the centre, and the left centre, remaining passive. M. De Gil al din.—Your majority has covered itself with disgrace. Souse members of the left aide addressed violent epos trophes to the minister,. M. Cassi 11l ir Perrier.— The ministers do not even deem to explain. M. De la Fayette.—We protest and we appeal from this proceeding to the energy of the Foetid' people. M De Grannuout —We all make the saine protesta tions. A ft ightful tumult then arose ; the right side at fit at mingled its cries with those of the left, but some of the members induced them to become 'bent. The strong •nice of the President could scarcely make a few accents understood, amidst the unites sal noise which filled the hall. The President finally put the question to the vote, amidst the cries of Vine la Roi by the right side. Ti.e extreme left, more and more agitated, took no part in the *proceeding. New cries of Vine la Rui noose as the Pte indent announced the adoption of the paragraph. M. De Granemont.—Proceed as you think proper; there js nu lun i ,er a Chamber; vote also the rest of tne lan, if ogre. able to )ou. An amendment of M. Bonnet was next put to the vote, and ass met by exclamations from the left of " We arc no luau:mit Chamber." . . Di Kesauy.—The Chamber is no more: the Chaster is so saor• I The President having entreated them to preserve sii.toce ; the discussion continued. be principal siwake re were M. B. Ilart end Cussintir Petrier the later of wltutu closed his speech with the follow Mg espressions:—'sWe have defends 4 with all our power the 1.5.4 rampart of public liberty, and now that all our effort.. have failed he fore the vote of the si 4,1..4, we are reduced to silence, and I. conduct m. rely passive. We have nut thought raper to vote ; we coos sidered that it was our duty t.ot to give the assistance of our Cu-opetatton to • law vs hose only teudeuc) is to put power into the hands of the Aristucracy."—(Lung shouts of " Bravo" flow the left. The discussion was adjourned, but we learn by an express, that on Wednesday evening, at six o'clock, the Chamber divided, when there appeared, For the Low V34 Against it To which minority are to be added 35 Members who would not vote at all, which makes its real number 198. Her lute Majesty's Will, with three Codicils, was proved in the Prerogative Court, Doctors' Com mons, on the 4:h instant, by Stephen Lushington, L.L.D. one of the executors ; power being reserved of making like grant to Thomas Wilde, Ebq. the other exe':utor. The effects are sworn under 20 thousand pounds. Some singular reports are in circulation with respect to jewellery, to no less an amount than 64,0001., furnished by a well-known house, the ac count for which was recently submitted to Mr. Herries, of the Treasury, as part of the Coronation expencen, THE NATIONAL REGISTER STOCK-EXCHANOE,SATURDAY THREE O'CLOCK.— When the payment of the 5 per Cents. was talked of before, that Stock went down to 103 and 1034, and the 3 per Cents. rose in proportion. At present, however, many prefer foreign securities to transfers in British Stock. Until lately none but great ca pitalists or daring speculators would purchase fo reign securities, but it is quite common to see trades men buying bonds of various amounts from 501. to 10001. The foreign market is much more brisk than our own. Prussian stock is in demand, and has undergone a slight variation of a favourable nature Spanish, notwithstanding the late news of partial disturbances, has been done this morning as high as 58i, and the Danish bonds are also in re quest. In Colombia bonds, the prices are almost nominal, but 88 is still demanded. It is reported, that the agents of the South American Government have instructions to buy them up at any price under par, and thus save the payment of interest. If this report be correct, it proves the confidence is the South Americanass to their own strength, and the prospect of entire independence. Some persons, who will not meddle with Foreign Stock, have sold out of tile Navy 5 per Cents. and purchased Long Annuities—that Stock is therefore on the rise. An eminent banking-house in the city, of which a leading member of the opposition is a partner, has sold 300,0001. out of the 5 per Cents.—Consols, 771 —Ditto fin- the Account, 774—Navy 5 per Cents 1061—Long Annuities, 20. At about half past one o'clock on Tuesday last, the King proceeded in state from Carlton-palace to the House of Lords to open the Session of Parlia ment. At two o'clock the firing of the Park and Tower guns announced his Majesty's arrival at the House of Lords. His Majesty was received with partial greetings. At a quarter past two the King left the House. His departure was announced by the firing of the guns as on his arrival. There was an unusually great display of military on the occa sion. At a quarter before one a squadron of the Blues proceeded front the Horse• Guards, and drew up before the palace in Pall-mall. The first regiment of Life-Guards, accoutred in their new appointments, lined the way by which his Majesty was to pass, The long line of apartments through which his Ma jesty had to pass in reaching the House of Lords, have all been new matted, painted, and fitted up for the occasion in a suitable style, These apartments were all filled, through the kind attention of the Lord Great Chamberlain to the wishes of the public, with spectators. All the other avenues leading to th House of Lords have also been matted, painted, and otherwise suitably arranged for tile opening of Parliament. Means were likewise taken to prevent, any but Members of the House of Commons from filling the lobby and passages between it and the House of Lords, through %%filch the Speaker and Members were to proceed in attending the summons of the Usher of the Black Rod to attend their Lord ships' bar. These excellent arrangements were de signed and completed by the Lord Great Chamber lain and his secretary, Mr. Fellowes. The House of Lords began to be filled at an early hour : befiare one o'clock all the benches, except the cross benches and the front side benches on the floor, were occu- 1 pied with ladies in full dress. A requisition, respectably signed, was a few days ago presented to the Portreeve of 'l'avistock, request ing him to call a public meeting, to take into consi deration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a Reform in the representation of the people, by restoring to them their national and constitutional rights; and also to petition for the relief of the agri cultural interests, from the oppressive tithe system and unreasonable taxation, thereby to afford the farmers and manufacturers the means of placing their labourers above parochial relief; and to enable all the industrious classes of the cummunity to reap (as their foreflithers did) the fair harvest of their exertions. The Portreeve having refused to con vene a meeting, the requisionists have called one themselves, to be held on Friday next. On Friday his Majesty held a Court for the pur pose of receiving the Address of the House of Commons, which was presented by a deputation, with the Speaker at their head. His Majesty after wards held a levee, which, however, was the thinne►t we ever recollect to have seen, owing to the short ness of the notice, and its having commenced of an earlier hour than usual. Numbers are said to have arrived too late—after the doors were closed, and the King had lett the levee-room: among them were — the Lord ChielJustice of the Court ut Kitig'sßeiteli, Earl Darnley, Lord Clifton, and Viscount Morpeth. The Sherif& of London and Middlesex were on their road, but being informed the levee was closed, re turned, as did numerous others A requisition having been transmitted to the Earl of Coventry, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, to call a County Meeting, in order to take into con sideration the distressed state of agriculture, I.is Lordship has declined doing so under the plea th..t Parliament will enter upon the subject as soon us it meets. 45 COUNTY MEETINGS. A County Meeting was held on Friday, the Ist instant, at the Castle of Exeter, to consider oldie present state of the Agricul tural Distress, and to discuss some means for its relief. Sir Joust Davis, Bart. High Sheriff, in the chair. This wag the most numerous and highly respectable meeting ever witnessed in this county. The High Sheriff' having opened .the business, a letter from the Duke of Bedford was read by the Under Sheriff. Earl FORTESCUE then came forward and proposed a petition for the adoption of the meeting. Lord ROLLE seconded the motion, and pledged himself as Member of Parliament to give the subject every consideration, and to support the prayer of the petition in the House of Lords. The Hon. NEWTON FELLOWES begged leave to move, as a rider to the petition, the following resolution : " That you will institute an inquiry into the state of the re presentation of the Commons House of Parliament, and adopt a timely and salutary Reform." After a few words from Earl FOILTES4U E, accounting for the absence of Lord Ebrington, the Uncle' Sheriff read the petition, and it was proposed to the meeting and adopted unanimously. The rider of the lion. N. Fcllowes was then proposed for the adoption or rejection of the meeting. Those, who favoured the rider were requested to hold up their hats, when a genial shout and applause followed. On the rejection being proposed, about 40 held up their hands for it. The High Sheriff then declared that the rider had been carried in the affirmative, and it was accordingly added to the petition. At the close of the meeting, Lord Rokie tame forward to pru:est against the rider. He was roughly received,' and ended his speech by saying that he should have a petition for signature got ready, which would not have this frifhtfol clause. Thanks. were then voted to the High sheriff; and the meeting separated. A similar meeting for the county of Surrey was held at Epsom on Monday last, but on account of a resolution having been moved in favour of Reform in Parliament, which subject had nut been named in the requisition, the High Sheriff dissolved the meeting, and another requisition, embracing that important point, has been presented w him. The penalties which Carlile was sentenced to pay by the Court of King's Bench having been estreated and returned to the Pipe-office, an extent WAS issued from thence on Thursday afternoon, directed to the Sheriffs of London, and commanding them to levy for one of those penalties, to the amount of 5001. At half past three the Sheriff, accompanied by a large body of his officers, proceeded to the premises; and after seizing every thing that' bore the appear ance of property, shut up the shop. Mr. Hardy, the keeper of llchester gaol, has ob liged a Ministerial Paper to contradict an unfounded account which it published, that he had "complained of the conduct of Mr. Hunt, and requested an order . for his closer confinement." Mr. Hardy, in contra . dieting this gross falsehoo I, declares, "since he has had the care of the gaol committed•to his charge, he never had the slightest reason to complain of the conduct of Mr. Hunt or any of his visitors." At the annual meeting of the inhabitants of Bir. minghara, last week, for the purpose of passing the accounts of the constables, &c. for the preceding' year, a stormy debate took place on a motion for pass ing an item of a former year's account, which had been rejected at the last meeting, and was now again brought forward for the re-consideration and decision of the town. It was the amount of the expences in curred in prosecuting G Edmonds, fur a libel on two of the acting magistrates ot• Birmingham, and the passing of the account was strongly opposed by Mr. Pi►ipson. principally on the ground that due notice had not been given, and therefore that the meeting was incompetent to decide the question. He also urged various other ingenious objections, which were combated by it. Spooner, Esq. Mr. Spurrier, &c. and it was finally resolved, by a considerable majo- - rity, that the account should be passed. On the. motion of Mr. Spooner, it was, however, afterwards, unanimously resolved, " that in future, when any prosecutions shall appear to the constables to be ne-• cessary fur the public service, which du not arise out ot• their official duties, it be imperative upon them to consult their fellow townsmen, at a public (fleeting to be convened previous to any expenees being incurred; and that it be recommended to all future town meetings to disallow any charges which shall be made in respect of• such prosecutions, unless the same shall have bean previously submitted to them."—lt is in contemplation of the principal indi vidual who opposed the passing ot• the account in question, to appeal to the Court of King's Betich against the decision of the meeting, and that a sub scription has been commenced for that purpose. At a Court holden at Fishmongers'.liall, on Thursday last, it w•ts resolved unanimously, that the freedom of the Company should be presented to Joseph Hinne, Esq. Member of Parliament for the boroughs of Montrose, Brechin, &c. fur his u►- wear►ed exertions in endeavouring to promote 'pub tic economy and retrenchment ; wherein he has proved hiins.:ll a filithful guardian of tl:e public purse, and the firm and upright representative of the peoi•le. A meeting of respectable bop-planters has hem. held at the Bell Inn, Ticehurat, tar the purpose taking into consideration the propriety of Gov. rument tor a repeal of the Act m suing a duty upon hips, as one means of relieving them titan cite didicultics under which they are stria :Ong. A suitable petition • was accordingly prepar d, and tint nimousl) curriad by a show of hands; it was soon afterwards signed by every liorgrower iu the parisli. . • .