The National Register. — London, England, 1821-06-24 00:00:00

198 ?Pp,: 101 I huu, f tantirelled,frinn page 191. such, but he aas an admirer of those who created a n. stem of urdct out of a ,vnteto of abuse. If the barrier of public law was broLcil down, and principles subver sive of national iiidependenee professed by powerful confederacies like that id Lay bach. The truth was writ ten in indellible characters, in the division and fate of Poland. It aas then, the duty of England, which had so long experienced the union of freedom with monarchial institutions, to interfere on thls occasion, and show to the world bow nitwit of national happiness and security would be lost in r ither extreme; disapproving etinally of the tyrannical dictatorship of the allied emperors, nu in cousistrut independence, as the escesers of national license. (Ilear.) Ms. S. IVOItTI.F. y said a few %mils in reply; but they very inaudible iu she gallery. Si.aogers at re tin ord. iNI to withdraw; and the housn divided—for Mr. Wiiiiley's motion, 59—against it, 113— lu 54. (In our re-admission into the gallery we found Mr. Ald. WOol) charging the commissioners of woods and forests wish inipiovidetire 111 Chris rotitnicts and with gross favour iii in. 'I his he nail was clearly exhibited in the lease which hail been granted lo Mr. Petulant for opening slate quarries common. Ile concluded by movin7 for the of a conunii tee to ea amine into the %object. After :1811011 debate the Moose di; idcit—Eur the motion, 19 —Agaiii4 it, 90 Majority, 71. On olio esailiiiiiadfin 1..10 gallery we found Mr. DI C• I NSON 011 Ilia legs, moving for the discharge of the order biro fop) of the report of the visiting magistrates of Itches ter Knot Is, the S.,1011:. . . Mr. Ald. WoOD listed that the house mould not rescind its im 0 order without leiter reasons than than those stated by the hon. gent. (Mr. Dickinson.) Mr. IIOIII.IOUSE remarked upon the zeal milt %which nll font ion:lnes were defended in the house, from the keeper of the K down to t he keeper of a gaol. 'lite house then divided—fur the motion, 6 —Against it, 40—► Majority, 43 Ale. It. Al ARTIN moved for leave to hting in his Dill; but withdrew it, nt the suggestion of Air. Baukes. Mr., CM:I.:VEY wished to know on what day it was intended to wove the first reading of the Duke of Clarence's grant hill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said early in the ensuing week, perhaps Tuesday or Thursday. Sir R. FERGUSON wished to ask whether in the preps• rations fur the coronation, it was intended to stop up the passage to the two houses of parliament. He had nearly fallen over the hoards which narrowed the way, as he came to the house. He saw nothing to he gaiued by so absurd nod expensive a pngeam. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUF.R said he behoved that this was the first time that the coronation of a sovereign had been spoken of in that Immoe in the manner in deli it bad now beeu by the lion. and gallant general. Sir R. IERGUSON explained, that he had Is full Ix re gard for the kingly dignity as the right hon. gent. but he still thought the preparal int , fur this pageant ought not to be suffered to block up the avenues to both Houses of Par liament. (Hear.) The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourtied. FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Mr. CIIETIVN . NDE moved, that the Information, Transw;ssion, and the Summary Proceedings bills be read a third time this day three months; he proposed such de lay becau,e he uished the bills to be dully considered in the country. 'f tie Husbandry Horse Duty Repeal bill was reported, and the report mitered to be taken into fuldier considera tion on toestlay. The rt port of the Scotch Malt bill was received and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time to sacr..row. Elie report of the Scotch Distillery Draw-back Malt Lill was received and agreed to. " r . CIaIEVEY pi esented a petition from Charles M tddos, teeently sentenced for a conspiracy to return a member for Birmingham, complaining that the court would not hear him :teem ding to law, tin ongli the inedinm of a friend; and that although his offence was admitted by the rout( to he less than that of the other defendants, be reei Iv( d a heavier ponisliment lit-cause lie mould nut express the contrition lie did not feel.—Petition lead, and dertd to be printed. The report of the torn Averages bill was received and ■greed to, and the hill ordered to he read a thiid time on Monday. N A\s AND MEANS.—The house went into a committee of W.r.s and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER movril a series ot resolutions lot the appropriation ot the fond tun arils the ways 'and means of the year, and tc• grants to nicer the expense or such loan from the sink ir.g fund. Mr, ELLWE said, that he I . Bd great objection; to the deficiencies being made to tall on the sinking fund. Mr. MAISLIILY said, that this fund consisted of no thing but fallacies. lie considered that what the Chan cellor or the Exchequer was doing, was no better thou a quibble; and he hoped that a committee would be here atter appointed on the subject of this fund, that, if it were continued, it should be placed on something like a national footing. Mr. P. GRENFLLL was favourable to a sinking f i nd. It was calculated to be most useful ; but he wanted to get rut of the delusive parts of it ; the bcoks talked of a sink ing fund 417,001),(70CA. and yet they could only kind about 4,90ty1u01. all: CALCRAFT said, if the sinking fond were dis sected, it would found it had amounted to 4,000,0001. Deduct from that sum the debt due to the East India Company of 1,40U,0001. and the lost Agricultural Hot,c tax, 500,0001.—50 that in reality it amounted to only 2,100,0001. Ni. RICARDO agreed with what had fallen from the hon. member who last spoke; and lie thought that sonic peat 'that ought to he made to get rid of the debt alto get hi r. For this purpose he thought that a real sinking fund might be useful, but there must be a change in it. 1(i-solution agreed to. RPI,OI t to-morrow. Col. DAVIE:S moved the second reading of the Clover Seed bill ; but aft( ruin& said, as the sense of the house was against the bill, he should withdraw 'it for the pre sent ; its principle, however, was gout!. lit vti CetIRTS.—On the motion of Mr. S. RICE, the itself into a committee on the with report of the c ))))) missioners appointed to examine into the courts of jitstite—that legion regarded Irelaad. Mr. R. knew THE NATIONAL REGISTER that the course which he was about to take would expo. e him to some unpopularity—but the conduct of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Leland, was P•pot. et§ of in the commissioners' report. His present motion was 'Unaided on the report and the Chief Baron's own letter. Several acts passed to prevent exactions, returns of fees in 1715 being required—the returns of 1715 and 1734 forming the inundation of the report, and his present prucecoing.— After this introduction, which lie had considered requisite, lie Caine to the year I MI4, when the cominissiun was ap pointed—a commission obtained in spite of the opposition of ministers, and which would be the means , of accom plishing retinal in their courts. The appointment of the commissioners, hoe ever, reflected credit on the govern ment—they had acquitted themselves with ability and ii.flexible integrity. The fees taken in the Com tof Ex chequer, Ireland, according to the 9th page of the report, were 9ti fees receivable, only 13 of %chic . ., were at the rate of 1734, 19 were without precedent, and there weir 38 increased. The hon. member then described some of the fees. He first spoke of the fees taken from the sheriffs on paying their accounts. The act said what they should he, yet there had been an increase. 'flue tutu filled by the act was Iss. hod. This fact formed the ground work of his first resolution. His second resolution declared, that since 1915 the Chief Baron received a fee for a cer tain species of writ for putting his signature to it ; and al though such fee was demanded, the signature was rarely put to the writ. The signature was said to be requisite, and yet was not appended, at least lint very seldom. The next charge against the learned lord was respecting decrees. There was a double duty charged, and it was charged on a document that never had any existeuce. There was a prac tice of taking fees on the decree at the commencement of wits; so that the fees were paid whether the suits neat to decrees or not. The abandonment of suits made no ditference. He 111S0 noticed a practice of taking certain fees imposed in Irish currency in lb itibh cut rency, which put into the Chief Baron's pocket en advantage of eight and per cent. That was a serious grievance on the suitor. He came rext to the question of hills of cost., where fees w ere charged in cases where bills Of custs had never been made out. The bare statement of such fact was sufficient. The present Chief Baron had authorised this charge. 'floe restitutions expressed no opinion, they only re-asserted what was set forth in the report, calling en the house to institute enquiry. The csmonissioners had done their duty, let the house do its; anti if they were really disposed to correct abuses, let them min the ciumnissioners' lateens to some account.—He con cluded% it h reading the seriessif resolutions already described. AUSTRIAN LOAN.—Mr. R. SMITH rose to move the production of a paper alluded to in die despatch which bad been sent from iennat to tot his country by Lord Stewart, on %lac sth of February. MIS. This despatch contained the reasoning of Prince Metternich and Could Stadison, in op position lo the payment of the debt doe by Austria to this country. 'He called upon the house to rescue the Em• peror of Austria ftom thi• libel on his honour and reputation contained in the despatches of Lord Stewart. lie must emi elude that the behaviour attributed to Austria in those des patches was attributed without foundation, for lie never could believe that the power which called itself the chief of the Ifoly Alliance: could he guilty of conduct, which, in the ordinary transactions of life, would receive the na oc of swindliog. The hon. gent, concluded by moving that the paper to which he bud referred in the outset of his speech be laid on the table. The Marquis of LON DON DERRY certainly thought that Austria would stand ill in the eyes of the if she denied the debt until she rece'ved a quieing (acquittance) from this couutry. But he was of opinion that it a mild only preju• dice the interests of this country when the period should arrive for an nrrangetuent with Austria, if the house were now In interfere. Mr. W A ItRE observed, that however poor Austria might he at present, she round money not long since to equip an army against Naples. He admitted, that in the present state of the country, tiny relief from any quarter would be important; but still he saw many objection+ to the produc tion of the paper now moved for. 11 she did nut deny the debt altogether she might put it in course of payment in • certuiu nieuber of scars. lie (Mr. Ward) would expect nothing frost the fairnts , s the honesty, or the gratitude of Attetriu; he relied only upon her fears; upon the valueshe set on the r'riend+hip of England; that friendship was too important to bier to be abandoned, even fur the sa.e of • Stlceissful fraud. Mr. It. SMITH, after what had passed begged to with draw his motion. The house alterwrirds went into n committee of supply, in n hid, the remaining Iri•h and miscellaneous estimate, were pursed. Report to-aiormw. The remaining orders having 1,o;II divined of, the twilit uctjourued. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.! The King has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Peter Lord Gwyclar to exercise the office of Loral' reat Chamber lain of England, as deputy to the Hon. Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bartmers Willoughby of Eresby, and Gcorgiand, Charlotte Marchioness of Cbulmondeley, coheiresses of the said office. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. A. H. Kenny, D.D. to the Rectory of St. Olave s, in the borough of Southwark, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Greene. BANKRUPTS. B. Renaud, Birmingham, whipmaker. Sols. Messrs. Jennings and Co. Temple. T. SAwyer, Ramsgate, chymist. Sole. Messrs. Young and Co. St. Mildred's Court, I'oultry. J. Fox, Dartmouth, Devon, ship owner. Sols. Messrs. Fox and Co. Auttinfriars. Sir P. Baghott, Knt., Lyplatt Park, Gloucesterthire, banker. Soh. Messrs flax and Co. Guilford Street. J. bewmar, golthe, Lincolnshire, grazier. SoL AI r. Taylor, Clement's Inn. .1. Lowes, Angel Court. Throgtnorton Street, bill broker. Sole. Messr., Walker and Co. Old Jewry. DIVIDENDS. June 23, J. Lea, King Street, Cheapside, warehouseman-23, W Davies, Caerphilly, GlamorganshireAwoullen manufacturer , * —23. R. Groning, Broad Street Buildings, merchant—July 10, J. and J. Silver, and A. Boyson, Slat Lane, merchant-10. S. Stickland, Burleigb Saßerton. Devonshire. shopkeeper-10, J. Godfrey, Colchester, innkeeper —10, T. Walpole, White Lion Street, Goodnian's Fields, victualler-17, J. Wood, D. Martin dale, and J. Fisher, Poultry, warehousemen -17, J. Donaldson. W. Slee, and S. Mayrion, Friday Street. linen drapers...lY. S. Dye, Norwich. grocer-12, S. `l•Knight, junior, Liverpool, merchant-13. T. Brown, Longdon, Stalk:n(l4llre, gmcer-13, J. Devey, Wukrulasaliptva, lactut..-1;, J. Tour, Bristol, woollen draper. TO THE EDITOR. SlR,—The account given of the Unitarian Fond Dinner, in your last paper, seems to me so little remarkable for ac curacy Or candour, that I cannot hot acquit yew of having been pre• cid, though it assumes the shape of an Editor's paragraph :—my reply shall be as short as possible, though it necessarily invr,ives a little history. The Society in gm ciao being instituted for a purpose no less grave and serious in its nature, than (as we think) important as to its object, the gentlemen who arranged the toasts to be given after dinner (of whom I was not one) deiiberately endea voured to avoid every thing which might alter, perhaps debase it, by an admixture with the party topics of the passing day, and therefore confined their artifice of political and public persons to his Majesty, singly and alone; raid even to him without the interpolated addition of" Cod bless him," which, however, unexceptionalite, or even, on other occasions, laudable and proper, it had been the better, for the fosegoing reason, to omit.—Concurring in their opinion, when an attempt was made by some gentlemen to invade the rule, I declined to comply with the annoy call, stating (which " the account" omits to mention) the prin. ciple on which the stewards hail acted, and my own opinion of the propriety of iihidise , by it—and I am satisfied that 1 acted rightly ; that the wi sh, so far from being unanimous, was not expressed by one fourth of the cotnpany, and that the minute's reflection, for which my interposition:diorite(' the opportunity, convinced the meeting of the expedience of the line a bleb had been drown; ill which all immediately acquiesced, by that silence which was best proof of cut,. sent. As to my own consistency, I have only to say, that having objected to interruptiN the prescribed coma! by the introduction of a subject wholly foreign to the design and object of the institution, when on the point of leaving the Chair I took a liberty, generally alloyed I believe, of giving, as from myself, flee health of a gentleman, my inti mate friend, well known as :he most ptominent chuuipion and leader of that very cause which we were assembled to promote—whose talents and imiustry have beta for many years devoted to its nib/imminent—hut a Ito, notwithstanding the number and wallay of his publication., never once, I believe, appeared before the public as a political polemic— if this be inconsistency t am content to bear the blame. — Trusting to your liberality to insert this, I rani, Sir, Your obedient Servant, London, June, 20, 1521. W. SMITH. I'. S. 1 must desire to add my entire concurrence in your richly merited eulogium oil the eloquent speech which Mr. Fux delivered On the occasion. •„" In conformity with our constant custom, we insert the above Letter, but we cannot avoid making a few observations on the subject. The Editor of this Paper was present at the Dinner for the purpose of taking notes (which he did at great length, though subsequent circumstances prevented his publishing the account he had intended giving) and avers the verity of his statement that the call was " nearly unanimous''—of which in his situa. tion he had a much better power of judging than the Chairman, and in which opinion he is confirmed by several gentlemen who can have no motive for misrepresentation ; he also knows that the silence which was so unfottunately interpreted as approba tion of, or conviction of the propriety of the omission arose solely from a determination on the part of the dissatisfied company net to sacrifice the quiet of the evening on that account We ag ree with the worthy Chairman as to the gravity o f the occasion, anti as to the desirableness of excluding front such meetings every political feeling, but we still maintain that that cfclusion could not be obtained by drinking " The King, God bless him," which gas the precise form of the first toast, and after wards refusing to give a toast when so generally called for—the omission of which at the present moment gave the meeting a decidedly POLITICAL CHARACTER and that of the worst sort• We could have had no objection to the health of Mr. T. Belsham, (whose every act has been so highly creditable to him) being drunk, but nothing can convince as that the fact was by any means con sistent with the first declaration of the chairman, that he would " invariably adhere to the list given him by the stewards."—En. It has been represented that the Duke of Clarence has only 18,0001. a year, besides 2,5001. a year which was granted to him early in life, and which, because he has received it so long, ought not now to be noticed at all. The following is a very mode rate estimate of the public provision for his Royal I-Ugliness, independent of his marriage: -18,0001. a year by Act of Parliament ; 2,5001. a year by an old grant; the admiralship of the fleet, 2,0001. a year, a free house in St. James's, and a mansion at Bushy-park (enjoyed for many years) with gardens, farm, and the rangcrs!sip, with its privileges (say, at the least, worth 2,5001. a year) and besides these, 1,5001. a year settled from public money on certain young ladies called the Misses Fitsclarence. These items make 26,5001. If we add to this the 6,0061. additional proposed on account of the marriage, (to say nothing of 18,0001. for arrears), we make up a charge of 32,5001. a year ! ! A few days ago a consider able wager was made by a gentleman of Prescot, that he would provide a chaise and pair that should go thirteen miles and a half within the hour; carrying, besides the driver, two persons, weighing 480 pounds. This wager was deeded last week, and won by one minute. The population returns in every part of the king dom sbew a material increase since 1811. In the single parish of St. John the Evangelist, Westmin ster, the increase has been upwards of 6,2oo—the the total number of persons being in 1811, 10,615; in 1821, 16,835.