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, / d i (iV/1/0 et d A ° I 4 41.A41it0t "p4T,s_. 1 5 ttr* 14 Ulna, Condfitittiou ant lialmd. No. 567.—0r0z.. XL. MONDAY, MAY N 5, 181 5. PRICE . Dia POLITICAL DISQUISiTION. LMPRISONMIIiT AOR MBEL. trtathat is-never to becensured, stands little chance of ever being improved; :?.rd t'rat a r.?.selution to justif; established lust:unions in reverence of their an:bi-. guity, is a resolut:er. which pursued in fnlitre, must steed as an effectual ;s*r to all the additional happiness we can ever here :sr ; 'pursued .4-itherVer, it would have robbed us , of that shave Of happiaess we nlready enjoy. The retalt:tian %trAna.siper it Na m to O. sad f o ad.it of neinnoVattostr is at the sometime as "Loch at sarianco with itselras with ream and utility. It should be rer..erubered that, whatever is now este blishir.ent was oneeinr.ovation—pteciplite censure cast on a political institttion!, revel* eT: hint who casts it. roans such an attack, no well grour.cted. institation* can .possibly suffer. What is said tvtinst it either makes impression or it makes none. If it :rule none, it is juet as . lf nothieg Lad beer. said abort tl)e matter j if it are reale an irnrression. it naturally cell up seine one or other in oppositicr. ; for, if` the institution be ber.e fied to the community in general, it cannot fail to inste giver. an. into:est in its preservation to &number of indiviluals who naturally come forward ar.d expose the benefits that reti.lt from it, which causes those, who 'before acquiesced in it en tryst, to . support it on convic tion.: Censure therefore, though ill founded, has no other effect on an institeticn than to bring it to that tcst by which the value and utility of all instituticr.s is best determined. That which ia good, can not fell to gain by scrutiny; that which will not Leer it, tscitlY adMits its own imperfectior.s. We have been led into the foregoing observations or. the liberty of the'press Nom the circumstance of the individuals salon cue we Save above notited having been ireprisonod for an alleged g01.13C of thai privilege. We are far from vindicating their conduct, but with regard to the nature of their offence we certainly must say that they appear to us to have undergme a pu nishment anseunting to persccutioa., IMPERIIAL , PARLIAMINT.- HOUSE Ole LORDS. MONDAN, MAY Is. AMONGST the occuirca in the willt interesting debetzi Parliimpct wising the 1241 week, is *MOW - 10116 - 1111MLArdreulsce9 4 cm a eiii. Bannet's Ai; a airy an the petitio' sitertain itr (lei- .‘ d tut two/ abolltl, I. The FAT: ortfanDwrrltE mond the recood r Paribh Nor...tries and the Poor Laws Arnendanci Naale Ford obisrrod, that Ire should not toter ' , SUM& ne the pyikent fl AMt 1 but Allodolot 4 con4drr.stiin TLC M4t4ittil of La?. not t hi n k tt i gethrr noubjectianaLle they daerved,on the must sericws- eorsideration of the frlonse,ror I Tile thirst reading of ttie*Labourers' Wages Bill wss post_ d .sontl.• •tennd rending of t itl Anent Hill. the 'to *Melt :twit Thursday night, jute thr. di•• Cerntr.ittee of enquiry dials who had beer. ireprisoeed fu putsueuce 'of Lord Sidreouth's cit.-Oar letter, fur the suppression-of bias phem sus and 'seditious publicatAns. Without, ateerepte leg either tc arraign cr justify the motives which may Rave paid:lced the Circular in question, on the legality of which so many learned authorities differ in opinion,. is certainly does appear, and is in fact admitted by e 7.1 parties, that in the execution of it. much undue acre ety was exercised, and that the Magistrates exceeded their authority. The Houses of the Petitioners were er.tered, mid their books end' paperi seized, and being unable to provide bail, they were committed to the House of Correction, where they were ironed, and fre?ed, in ansuciatien with convicted felons, to hard la bour. The libels thele individuals were accused of selling, were the Political Litanies j and it isr wall re marked by 11,1 y, Bennet, that had they been the con victed publiehem, instead of the mere venders of these publications, tlieir treatment for the gravce fault would not have been to be corepareil in point of aeverity,.with that which attended the lighter. They would, in all probability, have beset imprisoned in the King's genet' , provided with gotxlapartusents, and allowed Or associ ate with persons who, whatente might isevebeen the causes vrhic/r placed them there, were ?till not infamous. NVe really regret that ale Ifouse should have thought so lightly of these matters, as to refkise enquiring into them, more particularly as it was generally admitted that the laws had beet vkd.alcl. We readily conceive that at so extraordinary a crisis as that, at which the circumstances complained of took piece, unsisual acti vity was called for on the part of every Magistrate, and that the extraordinary power with which they were invested by the Circular in question, was so ureeeral, so undefiimil, that with every wish to keep within the precincts of the laws, the best intentioned, the ir.ost lenient Magistrate was exposed to err without fairly being liable to the :halve of voluntarily settee:d ing his powers. Still, however, the fact stand's recerded that the laws have been violated, and that tho House of Commons has not thought it of sufficient impertanoo to enquire into the einewnstances. As to the tendency of the publications in question, to tiisteede the public puce, we believe them too uontereptiele to merit the smallest attentloa on the putt of Government en that score. Many may he amused, but still :wire mist he nisgusted at them. Libets or net ilbels, thee h.ive net tendency to inflame or ezasc..:rato ; sod here we ..vainer comet the expression of our pese‘sund regret, that in this eoentry, whose chief heist is the ex ..xlicare her la s, the interpretation of the law on lih i 4heUla ".‘gne as to permit a doubt of what censt:ttifcs .-C'.:- :e An express and eloar tleenition on this "ere.-ene the more reps:site, ree wi:hoet it iib:::y • ; :rtml is necessarily impere t, end the ii;e:rty or the press we re;:y consider a* the i'.t of the. c, r livery law, end every iestitution of tee ,eerstre, is act only a fair object of e.:.snipr:;l3,b - et F.-eh:is at large id deeply indebted to every man, wee, withoat the sti mulus of prejudfce, C 7 :IV•. rel of ;Aims, steeentv imprevement or points yet eerert.s in any taw rractice. or institution, lowever vele:rabic frmn 9's antiplity. upholden by venerable eel reest authorities. Even miztaken notions preeetleatell frzoni g. -1 inctiees A l i ne trNivset. Under a gprerninent ei laws we know n o better motto for a good citizre than this, " puncturtfly,fo censure j rec! .. y." Certetr :. it .. l:, that a :It- Silts alto the eon-teary. the moot .erica‘* eoulitlecation. ~.fer they f effort pith is econom/ and morals. Ile 0113 were then o:.' tiered to be committed ou Thunnlay.—Adkaroed. Tr:ovAv. Rt6r.NC:*?. Lo re Cs/ one!itt,ton brought ha a• for emending. • the nr it tllC Act. Tbe Hill he observed, was to provide .ser the care of itis Majesty's person. The necessity for Mtn:. diming the present measure was, ineonserrence of tlirstat.S ot ber Majesty's health, which rendered it inipossible for he, to reit-AM:it Windsor. The present Will would therefore pro vide fur the addition at certain other Councillors, limited in point of numher, 'rtic Noble lord then moved the: first • reading of the Hill. Earl Gney had no objection to the introduction of a Ar c which sL ouid provide ter any exigence arisnin frcni the IT. raise of her Majesty ; but iliMotit dill*. it SIM necessary LAW to mate any elf/watt-in. The 1 . ..441 et TAiI:IIPC a t. widie'd their tordships to suspend jekinents until the second readiug. Regency Act provided that certain iitdivielnots by name, not in virtues:se their otheeepsiimild be of the Currier Council ,• such as Cie Lord Cliaticeller. the Master of the Rolls, ttc. The objet' bf the Bill now oronglit in was, to provide for the iminetbbrin assembling of L'arhament.in arse of he demise of hcr sir /ty • which would create ditßroltirs necessary to be pi ovided against by Parliament. in ( - expect ot the Regency, that wa, alreade provided ter. Earl GrtY, in explanation, observed. that he had heart, nothing to twittery Lis douats. The Bill was then read r li;Ft time. The Lunn C.ltaneEt.t.on se,d, n* Ole fretted mutiny he should state 14011 fully his vie. ik of the so bjee 'lli* I, al wits then mitered to be rauilloiateginiAiinva MAaiii;PACIVRERS' REGOLATION MIA.: • The House went into a Committee on the Bill for regal:Wog the Haute for employing Children in the im factories. !f r. Warren war heard at considerable lest#th in support of ite Petitions, and prop u. dto call evidracr, and it was IIOL:o:r- Stoo4l tliAt witnesses woitld be heard in a (Amin:Hee. •-A jourucd. Wzinrso4l. East Itwia TRADE.—The trade between Liver. pool and India is rapidly on the increase. The first vessel fitted out at that port for India returned to Liver pool on the sth of September, 1815. I ler burden was 512 tens. In 1816 there arrived from Indla eight vesels-3831 tuns. In 1817 there rVetre 17 arrivals -7338.t0n3 ; and this par up.. to the sth instant. 10 arrivals--4705 tens. _ CHU/lI:HES HILT:, The Howls went into a Cumtnittee on•tlre BiM'Tzar boils:Ml Additional Churches ; when sonic conversation atone in con sequence of a suggestion from Lord Holland, to appropriate the emoluments of certain Prebend', and suspend their tuaetions. By all Act passed in the 37th Geo, the emolu ments ut certain Prebends :rued keen applied le the repairs %,( Chu:cite:4, and he no reavuer wit) the seine progeetlipg might nut slum. he adapted Tl.t Archhistrup of Ca riltEnevitv ohjected to such as propitsition, as the case was of a particular nature ; to which the `;bile Lord had alluded. Toe Earl of LivEUPOOL said, *nett application would be a mite iu the gVllll . 3llauLscriirtion. Lord GI:ENV:O.E admittvii, that fiends in certain C 11411., had been taken from the benefices to repair Ciiiirehc• ; be! he knew of nu instance whete Elie application bad heels g:.- nerat. Lori lIOLLAtitt said,, the ease to which he alluded, was that o f Li e lifi c id an d. cove; ; ;;-y. TM: laird did tai pre a his suggestion. Rep.at was erderat: to be received to-tnorrow - Ad- BANK 04. ENGL.% Nn. —lt appears, from the noleunts just preseated to the House of Commui.s.,- fruit the ;,:aount of the .:ms pad by the public ht the Bank, as a remuneration flo- reetiving the eentribut'.ons on Loans, independent of the exrerce of management, frnnt the war 1793 to 191'3 iv 57,0361. 7-. ;;it. the inicaber of Notes discovered Ly the Bank to have tea forged fr,la the Ist of June, : 181'2, to • 10.:h. April, 1828, distinguishing ttose froth 11: to '2Ol. and v7,va:ag, is one hundred and thirty-one thousand, three and sixty-one. That the total expense of pr0n.5...`..:0r.3 fit forgeries, or utt,rlog forged notes, from tae Ist ef NC - act., 1797, to the Ist of April, 18 1 amconts to the sum of 145,3701. 9r. Jd. That the no minal (.1-* the Notes, of which payment was re- En tl:e tat of !ad. 1816, to the. lOth of April, 5' 3, :4 7 %7E . C 4 i. :.ncl that the nominal valuer nf fotged • Not •:s rail by the Vanefor the same period, wriZeit was Ater:v.l,ls recovercd on the forgeries bin detected, lamate.l ody to 751. To stew that the great and :aereaseoffc•rgerios ri..:nk Notes, tze expense of their pron.-ma: Ail in the year -1797 stns only about 1,5001. white in the first three month! :he present year, it art.:minted to the enormous 30:.3 of nineteen thousanl, e'ght hundred and ninc.ty pounds! Very little trade it carri:.(l o' in r Li•lantl,• and f . wer .ghipet vett never in the - poet of Amsterdam sines; the peace titan at the present nicinen!.. rh's is aserlbe.l to the new trawit which have elcilen the trade TIIVRODA7. SLAVE TRAnt... Oristhe enter fur second ress'.tr.g of the Spanish !tisk I .. .Wie Fl&' t:t i t 1n ISill,Lord llolland expressed hie approbation of part of the litll which related to the Right of Searefs. but retrilerta r the promise which had been given by the Gote,:nowat of Scan,. the speedy abolition of that odious tratbe., hr could not but laver- t the nrcessity width iamb/ r?-psirc four hoir.dred thousand y unn. ,f. 'be paid out of the pockets of the of kiigistol to en air,• - who,e behalf such ationdar.t Vieritic. - 3!.. , d been already midi. nine for the promi3e of pt.:font:rig in the year Ibta what ilia , ell : ti.co :stipulated to eireetrr.uch Tice Zvi of SitATTLIOU , .!*.l 7v! mow! the , ITI!Vr for dit second reading of the Bill. :A a nett/ices: to el./rte.! the 'Me -1 tion to any nt...er frOte txime.lient Ulric, if sir-% oefl: the drsite rf the Noble Rs-on. Lord llot.t.awo sail. he had n toivirde the pragreas of 0.0 Bill, and that be or ly made ohs , r‘au9h•neir Loa ilbnira had keel d in a cursory The Bill was then read the sroond time.—.Adjourtra. Flirt/X. fitf:ll:NCY Ci.;:I.ATIAN. The Order of o - .e It.; ha , 1 :4; T rild for dic ler)) 1 %. roiling• of the Bill feixtibt to the Prg,•uer • • - 44 , 1 1,0,,„,n, The Lnou that thnu4ii in Idle of ton masudivi,ina ot the_!hj, t.tr:aely, tne apviu,init ~e r .w Members to the cl•ie...h's I..ft to ti.e hortriussinr: ~r MOvay. it war not itr.n.ticit ley the framers of the in a fi,,,a,stre rhwrec to inter:vet wit% propcir awl ociemiiii r i ght of Parliament to regulate in •Imt ' Earl Geer bed capeeted. upon I rational( star serious std dory trnoottaneo, thin lemma end arguments would be produerot ia mutc way talcutatette hall their Lordships to an scrimp:bet, vita d r." with 14errnmi7 •to E larnborg direct. Tit*: ships rik , '.;: r .; from the w e stw u t.le A mtinkte to report having ret!ll i.t.Lnonse. muses of ire. Tor slip Minerva, from New York, iu lat. 4,1. 50. N. long. 50. W. ps.c4e(la number of or ice of sialtain); height. er.in 1 .50 t'2)) fe•t. 7.'he Washington saw several . ilk ..kls c: ick: itllst. w. levz, !I