The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JULY l 0• where no good could result from it. On these grounds he would propose to gra►+t her Royal Highness the net sum of 50,000 i. per an num ont of the Consolidated Fund. _ _ • 111:. TIERNEY said, he understood the unfortunate separation be tween *1 the Prince and the Princess arose only from incomputability of terop.a. He could not avoid returning his thanks to the Noble Lord for having done so much on this subject, and he had no dt.ubt, but wider the auspices of the Nr.ble Lord, the Prince Regent would he brought, having thus cowedred to her Royal Highness's having the income ut the Princess of Wales, to acknowledge her as such ; and that one effect resulting from the happy efforts of the Noble Lord would be, that her loyal Highness would be seen in her proper state in the approaching procession to St. Paul's, in a situation as near tile Prince as conveniently might be. Such an arrangement as this, aris ing noel the good °tikes of the Noble Lord, would indeed render him popular. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he could not assent to make any attempt to bring these two lilustrio'is Personages together, with their present feelings, where none but feelings of devotion ought to prevail. Mr. W utTart EA D must again declare, that his conduct on this ques tion had ',ever been governed by the bare motive of obtaining an in crease (.1 income for the Princess of Wales. NVllat he had wished was a participation of her character—an acknowledgment of her rights; and he would not now consent that she should give up any of these rights in consideration of any addition whatever being made to her income. Mr. CANNING was happy this proposition bad been brought fel.- ward and adopted, lis it went to spew the opinion of the House on the :subject ford Castlcrenali's motion was then agreed to. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. WAno enumerated the principal items of the Oldnonee Esti mate 4, in which, as compared Ivith those of last year, lie !-Ited there would be found a deficit of 1,000,0001. In the various dopartraents great deductions had been made, but it was impossible at present to declare what the peace establishment was likely to be. Mr. BAtittEs and Mr. WYNNU recommended strict economy and a small peace establishment; after which the resolutions were agreed to. The City Gaol Bill was read a second time.—Adjourned. TUESDAY, JULY 50 Mr. M. SUTTON brouulit in a bill to rival the Acts of the 30th and 31.(1 ef Charles 11. relative to burying in woollen, which was read a first time. Mr. P. Moorte presented a petition from Alexander M'Rae one of the persons convicted of the stock-jobbing hoax, which stated, that the petitioner was competent to devclope the whole fraud on the Stock Exchange; that he was anxious to do so, not only on pub lic grounds, but from his private teeliog ; that he could prove, that the illttstrious person who had been convicted of the conspiracy was not implicated in, or privy to the plot; that he could also prove, by many witnesses, that the agent to the Stock Exchange offered him a sum of money for his information ; but when they found that it went to exculpate Lord Cochrane, they rejected it. Mr. li,yrutatsr could not see how it was possible for the house to recci%e such a petition. It appeared that a person convicted of a couspila,.y by a Jury now wished to be heard at the bar of the Honsc against the conviction.—The petition was rejected. The Order of the Day was then read for taking into consideration a charge affecting Lord Cochrane an d M r . C oc h rane J o h nstone. The SPEAKER enquired whether Lord Cochrane was ill attend ance, and was answered in the affirmative. It was then ordered that he should be called in.—Lord Cochrane then came into the Howe, and took his accustomed place.—Mr. Cochrane Johnstone not appearing, the House agreed to proceed in the case of Lord Coch rane.—The record of his conviction having been read, his Lordship was called ( n for his defence. Lord CI:7NR ANE then rose, and read a very long statement, many parts of reflecting strongly upon the learned J:;dge and the duty by wheal he was tried, it was pretty broadly hit:ted in the home Cie it would be unsafe to publish. Lord Cochrane began Mr. Speaker,—The circumstances tinder which I appear before you and the house this day, entitle me to, at least, a patient hear ing. The unfortunate man, who, in the time of Cardinal Richelieu, was condemned to be racked and burnt, rin the charge bf practising magic, when protesting his innocence and exposing the deiinquency of his accuser, while the fire was preparing before his eyes, was, to prevent his being heard by the people, struck upon the month with $a crucifix, bora: iu the timid of a monk, horriW.e judicial war- 437 der shocked all France and all Europe; but of all the ciiemnstauces attending, it the fabrication of evidence, the flagrant partiality of the judges, the cruelty of the sentence, the notorious falsehoed of the charge, nothing produced so deep a sense of indignation as t 7.0 act of this execrable monk, who, not content with the torture and death of the victim—not content with the destruction of his body, was resolved to pursue him even beyond the grave. Theref o r e S.; though what I have pow seen of * • * *' • es' • • * * • * • convinces me that coward', me. lignity is not the exclusive possession of monks, I trust teat lei this day uo means will he resorted to to :stifle my Voice, or to present the public at large hem hearing all that I have to say in my dettesee. I am not here, Sir, to bespeak compassion, or to, pave the way to pardon. Both ideas are alike repugnant to my teeling , e 'flea the public in general have felt indignation at tilt senteece that has been passed upon me, does honour to their hearts and tends still to make my country dear to me, in spite of what I have suffered from the malignity of persons in power But, Sir, Ia! t not here to complain of the hardships of my case, or about the cruelty ofjudges, who, for an act which was never till now either known or thouelit to be a legal offence, have laid upon me a sentence more: 'lease , than they have ever yet laid upon persons clearly convicted of the most horrid of crimes,—crimes of which maitre herself cries aloud against the commission. It, therefore, it was my object to complain of my judges, I should bid the public look into the calendar, and see if thef could find a punishment like that inflicted on me, inflicted by these same judges on any one of those unnatural wretches. It is not, how. ever, my business to complain of the cruelty of this sentence. The house, Sir, will easily perceive, and every honourable netn will, I am sure, participate in my feeling:, that the fine, the impe isonment, the pillory,--even that pillory to which I am condemned,—are nothing, that they weigh not as a feather when put in the balance against my desire to shew that I have been tiejustly :condemned. In the first place, Sir, I here, in the presence of this bowie and with the eyes of the country fixed upon me, most solemnly declare that I inn Wholly lemma of the crime which has been laid to my charge, and for which I have been condemned to the most infamous of pimishmenti. Having repeated this assertion of my innocence, I next proceed to complain of the means that have been Made use of to etfect my des truction. And first, Sir, was it ever before known, in this, or in any other country, that the prosecutor should form a sort of court of his own erection, call witnesses before it of his owl. choosing, and under offers of great rewidds, take minutes of the evidence of such wit nesses, publish those minutes to the word ender the forms and ap. pearauces of a judicial proceeding? Was it ever 'reline Itieten th et steps like these were taken previous to an indictment, previous to the bringing of an intended victim into a court of justice ? Was it ever before known that so regular, so systematic a scheme for ex citing suspicion against a man, of implanting au immoveable pre judice against him iu the minds of the whole nation, previous to thee preferring a bill ef indictment, in order that the Grand Juty, be it composed of whomsoever it might, should be predisposed to fled the bill ? I ask you, Sir, and I ask the house, whether it was ever bee, re. known, that means, like these were resorted to, previous to a 111,111'S being legally accused ? But, Sir, what must the world think. w they see those to whom the welfare and the honour Jf the nation are committed covertly op operating with a committee of the Stoce ex change,--becoming their associates in so nefarious a scheme ? Never theless, Sir, this fact is now notorious to the Miele world. I must confess that I 1,1;o not prepered to believe the thieg eossiele; theeeh I was aware, indeed. that I had to expect horn some ut . those ia power whom I had in vain endeavoured to brieg to eotitice, every thing that malignity could suggest and Ctinnine privet, ate ; new 411 I was aware of my endeavours 01011 . 411 111 t c'Xpost . !Ia• stw,ces of corruption ; though the pension list, and the prize co lees, nad raised against me many enemies ; thotrels I was aware of the me . quenchable thirst for revenge which I had excited in the !nee, ts o f many corrupt and hypocritical individea:s; and espech.l tectigli I was aware, of the offence which I had elven to the t e.avieg and never-pardoning phalanx of the law, by exhibiting to the wuriti teeir frauds upon my ill treated brethren of the navy. • • Care however, was taken, Sir, diet the snei:ess base conspiracy should not be exposed to tho chances el titiluy +ems the jury not being of the rieht stamp. The hanctwenr, lett fair, regular course, would have been tried :it the Se-eel's-h. est a- !. • e Old betore a iary impat tinily taken. In that ce e, rt %Need have been what is tail ed a Common Jury ; that is to say, a pee weose . names are taken promiscuously out of a box cectanon i e the D o me• f.t the whole of the ju ro rs, s einniZeted for the trial ot a 1 int cases 0!•••• girt before the eonrt derine the Session. I cusatioe before suchl took no stee- to pet eff ready to ac a day. rifle indictment was removed fleet tee corn t it regularly came, into a court where the proseeuture acet for ,Pfert! l !lell ktww that . • ;./ , •