The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

MARCH 28. THE NATIONA mos and 41. aflbrd to purchase any of the costly manufactures of this country ? With respect to colonizstion, he would affirm, that the indult of foreigners who ;right drive the trade to India would, if they raet with a disappointment, endeavour to get into the vortex of the IndianConrt. Mr. PROTHEROE and Mr. Ticker( sported the rights of the Co:npany. and contended that they shoul d produce evilenee at the bar of the. !louse, to prove the expediency of ci.ntisuing the whole trade in ihrir hands. Mr. CANNING was ge , erally,in favour ofi he proposition fir throw iog open the trade to a certain extent ; he thought this general jar:n.6oo, whether' the trade should b e opened or not, ought to be first discussed. Mr. WILBERFORCE complained that no attention had ever been ,;hewn by Ministers. or India Directors, to the propagation of Chris tianity in India; and he would now recommend the sending of Chrietian Ministers to instruct the natives. Th. Chairman th.li reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on I uesday Next.—Adj:burned. TUESDAY - , MARCH 22. Mr. VCrittlittiAn rose to state the sevel of the application he hut made to Mrs. Lisle, tut the putp-se of ascertaining whether the do corn nt of her evidence read b. hen last week Was authentic. He had, tie said, never imouted to the Colimissiosit•rs that they had fabricated deposition ; but he said, that if the paper put into his hand was to be considered as authentic, the conduct of the Princess of Wales, as to th= imputation of having acted in a manner unbecoming a rear tit d wontati, was very much relieved. The Hon Gentleman then read the fulLwing letter that he had addressed to Mrs Lisle. (Core.) —LETTER TO MRS. LISLE. - H-use of Commons, Ma:ch 22, 1813. Dee& MADAM,—I am exceedingly sorry to be troublesome to you, and especially 011 such an occasion : but when I have stated the cause to you, I have no doubt you %ant acknowledge the necessity lam un der of addressing you. On '.eednesda) last, before I went to the Heitse of Commons, a paper was put into my hands, of which I send yeti a CO:yy enclosed. 1 was assured it contained an authentic account of your examit a tion before the Lords Commissioners, on the conduct of the Print:o;s of Wales. Believing in the integrity of the person who made the communi cation to me, I used (a, I was told I might (reek do) the paper in the House of Comnions, as I thought that justice demanded I should Lord Ellenberough has this evening declared in the House of Lords, that . t he paper is a false fabrication, as I understand from th ose who heard him; and that the other Commissioners have expressed th eir opinions, although more mildly, to the same ettiEct. So circumstanced, I am compelled to ask you, whether you agree in the character a.cribstl to the paper by the Noble Lords. If you do, 1 shall have to lament, that I li :se been imposed upon, and to ac knowledge the imposition practised upon Inc. I f the paper should ever b. fare have been seen by you, 1 shall be extremely glad to receive all such informal on as you may have it in )•our power to give respecting it, that I may trace the fabrication to its author. I have the honour to be, clear Madam, your faithful ser vant, SAMUEL WHITBREAD. WRITIIREAD said, he selected the softest words used by the Learned Lord. There were other words used, which were banished from the communications of the intermediate ranks of society : words teitiell were not considered necessary for personal justificatiwe or even for offence. In the lowest rinks, isideed, they had bunk into disregard; end if they could find a place any where.• it must be wily in the sacred person of the Lord Chief Justice of England.—(Hear, hear !) To this letter he had received en answer front Mrs. I.is!e, which he also read. (Core) —ANSWER Catibury. March 23, 1813. DEAR Stß—l received ild morning your letter, with the accompas it ving ecernint of my examination when belitre the Lords Commissloteel, in the year 1806; and having eampaied it with the original document, I find them ex - mete similar. • On my return twat the Lords Commissio :era, I, to the bet of my recolleetimi. committed to paper the etteatious which had been put to see, and my anawers ; and I transmitted a copy to the Princess of Wales, Ravin.: previously. .received her Iloyel l,te teas commands so to do. It has never been tiny intention to set op them. recollections against any deposition; and as little has it been my eisli that t .ey should be made robfie.• Itideed, so scrupulous have I Kees in this respect, that, with the exception tit the:copy sent to the Princess, ittimedietely after my examination, the paper now iii question waehot, till very recently, semi by my nearest connections ; even now it would ant have been seen hy them, had nut the erroneous etatemeets, aid ,:;idled extracts fruni diy depesition, appeared in pause of the public papers. How-the paper has found its way into 'our hands, I euess not. As leave already stated, it fias not been by any act Ur illtellleUt. of wine but certainly the paper which you have sent Inc is a coned copy of the olio that I had written. I am , dear Sir, TINT faithful and obedient Servant, lILSFER LISLE. . REGISTER. 201 - , Mr. Watt BREAD -said.' he hoped, that neither the House nor the Public would now say that he had been iu►pitscd uporn: lie felt very sorry to have done any thing which could give pain to Noble Lords and Friends, fur whom he cutertain:id a high respect ; but he hail felt the paramuutit importance oh a serve of justice to the pare he had taken hi the bui+iness, and which 09. sinned his comments. Lord Castlereagh, Sir A. Pig o tt, %Ir. Elliott, Sir S. Romilly, and Mr. Poa'mby, all joined in considering Mr. Whitbread ai having acted wrung in reading such a paper, while So F. Burdett defended him; the subji ct then dropped.—Adjourned. MA and "WI met Ind Cn: bar try yilg fir, p stN tiat Cll vn me (1 be to w( tti an to ti 4 tt tl al 21 I f k o • WFDVTSDAY. IIARCtf 24. On the motion of Lind CAsti.sriesott, at; Aderess of Condolence was voted to the Prince fieuent, on occasion of the death of the Duchess of Brunswick, Sir F. Be a nrrr asked why a similar Address was not presented to the Princess of %Vales? Lord CA STLF.R E%C II replied it was wholly without precedent. Mr. C. JousislosiE moci.d, that the Petition f Sir John D ow Alas h e leadi which !I:tying been d ne by the Clejk, the Hon. Nfeiniter said, let was persuadeil, that the ;Lois& -agree with him, that this Petition wrus flUthilag but an impudeu: attempt to gile the colour of troth to the most notorious and ghring I.l,ehoods—aheAdy sworn to by tln pat tie% in the prosecution of a foul conspiracy to fix a strong and deeile,cl mark. ;if reprobation on it., he moved -- " That the Petition of Sir John Douglas, in behalf of him-elf and of Charlotte his wife, laid upon the Tab!e of this House, on the 17th i6lt. is rex ird?ri by this House as au audacious eirqt to give, of the oyes the nation, the colour of truth to the Casehoods before sworn to by the Petitioours in the prosecuti-n of a foul and detestable attempt against the peace alioi lutopi-e.ss, the honour and life, of her Its-yril Highness the Princess of W.. 1 s. ' . Sir F. .13vt: nv Er seconded the motion. Mr. Wit trntir A I) Utitl several other Members said it was impossible to vote for it, beciit:se the !louse wa,t in pos:ession of no evidence to sop. dort the allegi,iti COlatailltql ill the ItcSuhit i o n. A oli)tion ut adjourn ment was thtieture made, atti carried without a division. ruttusnAv, The Sheriff'. of London presented a Petition it4ainSt the Bill for erect ing New Docks in Isle of Dues ; and alio:her Petition if> support of the Bill for eulargiug SinitL& eLd Alarkets.—Ordered to lie on Me l'a bk. Ttie Committee rn the P ,intfract Ele:-tion reported the sitting. Niemhers dui! , elected ; the Petition., as tar us it regarded the 'Mayor, frivolous and INK:11144/s. A Committee was appointed to try the Ayrshire Election. FINANCE. Upon going into a Committee on the Chancellor of the Exclieqoer's new plan of Finance, Mr. Ilesstsso i he had bestowed great at win ion on the snhject, and tlti result of the of his ingoirics and reflection was, that Ow plan, if adopted, would expose the will:tit to tite tanniurnt riLk of - 10-in„ tin tho fruits of its eaertions fa the last 10 year, ; and, if' the war sltoull 14st much Longer, it would farther expose the na tion to the greatest f undermining noel destroying that public eredir, by which it had held so hi g h a ran;: among the nations of the worn!. Compared with the vitistitp , ,ptein, the new plan would leas_e us, in I 8.37, with four millions mote of ,mmtial taxes, upwards of three hundred thillinn , MO. e of uaredi cooed debt, and nearly five ma tions less in the aniond revenue the Sitdditgl:tu:d, In the year sot, a person put into his bands au its..entons scat (-went, in effect exactly the .alt,c sort of' plan as that 11,:w proposed; was hiniself much) struck with it, and gave the btateivert to Mr. Pitt, ‘‘ho returned it to him %%his his poi:.ted Etla'aliation, as beiog both in r ,p,.liennle H od ruinous,. There was therefore the authornv 'ii l'itt against it. The great desideratum for 14:any yunFs, 11:1:1 been de. equiiization of the expcudi ore of the country waft Rs income. The hopes that had been enter , tained on that subject, would be d :shed away for ever if the preeut system was verse% ered in. If so great a portion of the Sinking Fund Was now broken in upon also. Ito wish.A to know, why his Right /lon. triend might not lay oat 600,0001. of war taxes, ititead of the kiaa 1111 W proposed. There were several annuities that would fill in hirse of some years, and ti:ese might all go in bid of the public barthehs. If a great nevssity - atoso, he should have no g, eat olketion to come to this retvuree. )30 Ilitre were no such necessity at this usinnent. The CUANCALLOR of the ExcIiEQUIR defended the measure; he denied it would be any infringe.ue•nt on the Sinking Fund, or that it would have the evil effect anti , :ipated by hi, lion. Friend. Ile admitted that, according to this new plan. th. unredeemed debt would he g.teilter ; but thus amount of t:►xes would not he an gre-at. The quebtitut wh , ether we t,lickuld pay lases Liter the year 1830. Surely ``f '