The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-02 00:00:00

TIM: NATIONAL RP 'GIST .R. A man who had negroes in Jamaica and Sr. Thomas's, and who trans ferred one of them from one island to another would be liable to be transported. The Bill was an emanation of that fanatical irregularity of mind, which would render that excellent measure, the AbolWnn of the Slave Tr .de, cdio. , s hi the West Indian Islands. When such a sweeping measure of legiaition was proposed against any Act which Might keep alive the Slave Trade, it might not be improper to pro side against abuses of the Charter of the Sierra Leone Company, %vhich had been rumoured to exist The Earl of LIVERPOOL admitted that the Bill was drawn up in a slovenly manner, buy he thought the obj• ct of the Bill was good, es picially as far as it preverred the application of British capital to the sultivati m of foreign colonies. The House then divhird—For the Report 9, Proxies 10.19—Against it 11, Proxies 12, 44-.. Majority s.—The Bill was thus lost.—Ad• journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MoNDAY, JUNE 26. In a Committee of Supply, a resolution was voted for granting an additional sum OEIOO,OOOI. to the Duke of Wellington ; 534,7001. to tiefray arrears of the Civil List t and 100,0001. in aid of Queen Aim's Bounty. TrTSDAY, JUNV 27. On the accord reading of the Bill for abolishing the Assize of Bread In 1 ondon, sevetal Members expressed their opposition to the 111111, while others wi,hed it to be deferred till next Session.—The Bill Was feat a second tine, and ordered to be committed rni Friday. The Stamp Duties Bill was committed.—Adjourned. wFavrabAy, Jux, 28. • A motion by Sit Francis Burdett, to remunerate Mr. Willson for invention to facilitate the escape of seamen in cases of shipwreck, was lost by S 2 against 27. DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. The Honse having resolved itself into a Committee on a Message tom the Prince Regent, relative to the Marriage of the Duke of Cumberland, Lerd Castlereagh said, the allowance to his Royal highness, at pieseut , was 18,COO 1 . subject to the deduction of the Property Tax, and he shoal now propose an additional allowance of 6,0001. for the joint lives of the Duke and D.., he's of Cumberland, and to contii•ne , o the Duchess, should shesurvive his Royal H'ghness. Mr. W. KEENE and Sir M. W. R sDLEY opposed the !notion; they cons•dere , l the Duke alnaly liberally provided for, especially as he intended to reside in a I.sei h n country. Mr. BENNCTT and Si; C. Botta etc followed on the same side; the form .r averted to the lady to whom the K iyal Duke was married, and observed, he was conv , nced, had the King been in a state to have known of this marriage, he would tu t lt,ve con s ented to it. He would ask the Noble Lerd whether the Queen had not expressed her_ aril in strong !elms on the subject of this marriage, arid declared, it was unfitting and unseemly that the Duke of Cumberland should marry a lady between whom and the Duke of Cambridge a marriage bad barn broken off. _ _ _ Mr. WYI'iNE asked whether neither of the lady's former husbands had done any thing for her—had she no dower Isom her first husband, Priroo Louis of Prussia, or from her second husband, the Primer>, Satin ? Lora CASTLEREACH and Mr. VAN3ITTAII? supported the prrmp•sed grant.— 0.1 a divi,ion, there appealed, for the Resolution, •7 — Again t it, 70—Majority, only 17. A Vote of Credit for Six Millions was agreed to.—Adjourned. ?IMPIII4Y, JUNE 29. The Report of the Ct run:ince on granting 6,0001. per annum to the Duke or Cumberland, was again strenuously opposed by Messrs. Gordon, W. Smith. Protheroe, and others • their objec tions to it, rested on tl unfavourable reports circulates ) of the Duke, and on the int prophet of the marriage, and dislike to the lady by the Que,,, wti refuses to receive her at her court...Atter two divisions, of 74 against 62, and 75 against Et, the report w.s received, and a bill ordered to be brou,,ht i • accordingly. AUX ~ nually prey •nttd, on 16th of June, to his MAjesty or his descend. ants. at W ndsnr Castle The Stail .p Duties Bill passed through a Committee.—Adjourned. ratbAy, JUNI 30. Mr. Paz t. appeared at the Bar, and communicated the Prince R.. gent's a. swe rto the Address with respect to the erection of monu ments to tits memory of Generals Ross, Pakenham,and Gibbs, stating that the said Address should be complied with. BATTLE 01' WATERLOO. Lord C A srtta Elton moved an Address, for erecting a distinguished Trumument of Pail pal gratitude, in seine appropriate plate, to the 11- lustriotts heroes, hbth ers and men, who so gloriously fell at the ev r un incrable battle of Waterloo ; and also moral monuments to General Fitton and sir Wm. Ponsonby. The motions were received with enthus.asau, anti it seemed t“ be the general feelipg of the House, that the f ruler monument shotild record the names of every indivi. dual who, on tl.e day of the lath of June, purchased his country's glory by his .!eat h. Mr. Lositt NOTOrI proposed a clause in the Committee on the Duke of Weill' Eton's E oat, sill, providing th t the estate my! Meow?) house voted bl Parliam-nt to the illustrious Duke, shottlal be held by biro and Ilit succobsors, on condition of a lii•Col9ol4Xi AM being an. I L THE DUKE Or CUNDERLAND. The CHAN CELLOR of the Exettruorit brought in a Rill to mike a farther additi in to the revenue of the Duke of Cumberland. Upon the motion ti at th • Bill should be read a first time, Lord A. H AMILTOR expressed his conviction that this Bill was to. tally unnecesi ary, and therefore he should persevere in opposing it. Mr. BURR' ct. observed, that while not a single argument had been offered in deft nee of this measute, he had heard many and forcible ar guments again st it, an I therefore he should continue to resist its pro. Kress. The I ion. Member concluded with moving, that the Bill shotild be read a third time this day three months. Mr. Dove% As spoke in favour of the measure. Mr. W. 80l ace said. that he was anxious to explain the grounds upon which ht • had voted, and meant still to vote against the measure before the HoU se, because he would be sorry if such votes could he supposed to pt -ceed from any want of due respect or solicitude for the interest and dignity of the Royal Family. This maroage, in fact, took place in pt ivacy. It W 33 not mentioned in the Gazette—it had nor even the ordinary publicity of a marriage between private indivi. duals, for it se; s not stated in the Newspapers. It was said to have taken place in I lay last. but that was not known until it was stated in that House upo n brineing forward this measure. There could not, it appeared, bear y doubt of the fact, that the female part of the Royal Family disappn ived of this marriage, and that disapprobation formed a strong argument against the present Bill. But if, under all the cir. cuenstances, swch a Bill were adopted, and such a marriage sanctioned, wh re, he wou Id ask. was the Hattie to draw a line upon any marriage contracted by ; member of the Royal Family, however improper that marriage migh.t he ? . He (lid not wish to thaw any invidious compa risons, but ht• confessed that lie heard with satisfaction the suggestion of the Hon. Member for Bristol, as to the propriety of granting some reward to the Commander in Chief Pleat hear ! on the Ministerial • side]. As Pi•rliament had acted so liberally and so justly towards the IDnke of Wellington, for conducting our brave arm. to such nous triumphs, surely some consi eration was doe to the merit of him under whose ca re that army was formed for great achievements [tear, ' hear, hear The Duke of York had for a series of years been train. ing our Army, and such was his skill and firmness—such his candour and good nature, as to deserve general appoliation. It was a fact, indeed, that ails illustrious person had not, throughout his c• mmand, been engaged in any dispute with a single officer, one only excepted, who was 13tely a Member of that House [hear, hear !] ; but who had I lately found it convenient abruptly to quit the country (Mr. Coch rane Jehnstone), yet the Duke of York had for such eminent services received only 30001. a year, which was not more than tile salary of an Under Secretary of State. Lord CASTLERTAGH denied that the marriage alluded to took place in private, as i was, after the consent of the Crown regularly ob. tained, solemnized at Berlin, in presence of several members of the family of the Duke of ISlecklenburgli Strelitz, and the representarive of the British Court ; and as to the non-appearance of the marriage in the Gazette, that was owing merely to a casual omission. He fully concurred Ith his Honourable Friend as to the merit of the Duke of York, under whose administration the Army had been rendered so much improved ; but yet he must deplore the injury too likely to re. stilt from any undue comparisons between the several branches of the Royal Family. Mr. Wu traer.ao began by observing, that the latter part of the speech Of the Hon. Member on the other side of the House was to. tally irrelevant to the motion under consideration. No one, however, he admitted, could review the late events without giving due praise to the Commander in Chief who had placed the army in such a state of efficiency as to achieve the most brilliant expl its (Hear I hear !) Whenever the distinct merits of that Prince should be brought before the Howe. lie should be ready to state h.s opinion upon the subject. With re , pect to the question before the House, he had already marked his sentiments by his vote, and he now felt it his duty to speak against ir, for he could not think the case under discussion such as to deserve the liberality of Parliament. In and out of that House there was but one opinion respecting the great. Mr. HAtiNteßsLer said he should support the vote, because he thought it rested on the strictest Parliamentary grounds, and no Par. liamentary ground hat been alleged against it. Mr. METI4USN contended that the House ought to shew, by its vo'e tha night, that it was not inattentive to the morals of the coun. try, and therefore he should oppose the grant, not tiorn the slightest personal motives, but merely in the conscientious discharge of wh a t he conceived to la; his duty. The House Ilia divided, when the wmpben wg(s-ff-4y is, Noes, 9j. 101.•-••• OOP . . e