The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-01 00:00:00

{ail to Rive the Folueet his hest consideration. Rend Lind referred to the agricultural committee. Sr.nirtox •4D RLasenemr.—Mr. LENNART) v 1, 4- 11011011, till Thursday, the 18th April, his mut nn fur leave t'. brine. in hills to repeal the set regarding seditiuns meet. In and blasubemous i•uhliestions CooNTY RATIN.-Mr. ILL:AN:B moved fur an Re count of the rental and parish rates hi the several parishes in Middles. x. The mullein was enrried. cAvr. F. ROMEO.-ITALY. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from Captain Francis Romeo, a Neapolitan subject, who again n”- prwarlied that house to ask for justice at their• hands, fur services that lie bad been enabled to render to the British forces in Sicily: he had before approached that house, buil hitherto in vain. His lordship then stated the parti radars 01 Capt. Romeo's services. He hail been employed by British officers, who gave certificates in his favour, to defeat the schemes of the Queen of Sicily and the French faeces to destroy the British army; and in consequence of his success in that service, be was exposed to the en mity of the Neapolitan government. The officers, and General% Maitland, Campbell, and Lord W. limitlnek gave certificates in Capt. 11.'s favour, uhirlr ale° stated, bat they b'•lieved his services to the British were the, cause of the pereccations to %shirt' lie had been exposed. The government had promised him a passport, and that teas al'erwards refused. IL, lordship might lie allowed to say something of ilia events that had reran lv occurred in Italy. lit tart, it was known that the greatest efforts were made to arouse Europe against the Emperor of Fiance, and none greater than those that were made. and successfully ton, in Italy. The Italians had the enjoy ments of literature and science tinder the Eniperor—but their hatred of despotism aroused them against the French flower. 'I he Italians sere promised fire institutions, but they were delivered over to the Austrians without any guarantee for the security of Italy. Since they had been so transferred, the Atistiians hail exerted evety effort to check the progress of civilization and bactty in Italy. 'flee schools for nintual instruction had been abolished ; the bee institntions had been destroyed. and the severest pal secutions had followet! those who had espoused the cause of liberal institutions. At Turin, for instance, per sons had been condemned to the galleys for life, for an Cdence that would not a little surprise the house—it was for being suspected of having a propensity towards a constitutional govermnesit." (Hear, hear.) Similar prte reeding* took place amongst the Genoese; indeed, many of the best, the ablest, and the most generous individuals amongst the Dollars, had been compelled to leave their homes, and were wandering over Europe with little hope of being enabled to return to their native soil. His lord allia considered that these calamities were mainly owing to the deficient negotiation of a noble 101 l opposite (the Marquis of Londonderry.) Mr. WILMO said he hardly knew what the real ob sect of the noble lord could be, mice the introduction of the petition hail been mixed up ail!, other matters. He was not against the receipt of the petition, but lie thought the services of the petitioner had already been rew•ardcd. Besides, Capt. Romeo had not been the chief, lie hail only Dees the secondary agent in the services now set forth as so merino inlis. Sir J. MACINTOSH denied that Capt. Potreo was to be viewed as having been a secondary agent—the lit itish officers, alaitlanal and Itentinek, under their own hart declared that it was " cliii Hy" owing to this gentleman that the machinations of pretended well. defeated. Farr BliliSll officers said this lt. and was the evidence of Neapolitan ministers, who had plotted against the Hsi tish army, to be put against that or olir officers? Mr. GOULBURN considered that Capt. Bunten haul rf cult ed what, 011 a rnmparisnn made with impact)•* to others, 5505 a sufficient enumeration. government had not only to consider Capt. H.'s case—they bad to examine what were the several ranks of the different applicants. It had been truly stated, that Capt. Romeo was but a siibordlinate agent ; and as such WilA the case. the govermiteut hail to recollect a hat had been given to elliceis who had held sticerior stations. He observed, that as Capt. R. was at the time in the pay of the army, he was hound to ;Perri/1M his best set vices; but those services havnig been ;Iceland's ly meritorious, they receisedl special reward. That reward was given after a eettaiii rate; it ass settled according to the rank of the pat, iVa. Wien his annuity ut 501. was purchased S.Ol. it was slated, he admitted, that Capt. Romeo might have a passport; but lie applied for a British passport. That could not he given —it was nut weal to give British passports to persons similarly eh cimistasiefol. 110 thought that the petition did not merit further consideration. Lord LONDONDERRY said, as to Captain Romeo, cording to Sir William A'Couit, our ambassador at S. a ides. these was no truth in the statements about the but filings and persecutions having resulted fruit Capt. IL's services to our &slily. The remuneration claimed was estraordinatily large, and it was strange that it should have been su long delayed. He had In en rewarded ac cording to the scale of Ake; but lie was not deemed a ort by el a I.:mai-filar passport. After sonic thither observations, the petition was ce des out to he printed. Sir It. MARTIN, ntivetting to the qualities of coal tar, and to its use for ship timber, called on an hon. member to slate the ri stilt of capes intents that he liad witnessed On S4111111:11y. Mr. HUME said, tlmt the experiments were of the most satisfactory patine ; that the timber so scasoned did nut ignite so quirk's , as hail been represented; that a pistol had been died over it. and a candle held to some Umber, witliont piudiacing ignition; and that the opinions that had been held on the subject laaJ been completely disproved. Mr. WARD brought forward the Ordnance Estimates; the amount of theist was 1,24,1)001. 71ie reductions, as competed alas the preceding estimates, amounted lo 7XiMX I I. He concluded with moving a grant fur the vici *ire of thr Ordnance. Mr. HUME f aimed lido an examination of the esti shales, its compared %hula 'base of 17111 and 181: ; end he illainiaseicd, that PI) far titan these hieing On) teal redac tions, the est intat vs of the In eseht year were I,OOM. mule than those of Ist/. Those of tall were 1,233,0 /01. those fur the present year were 1,231,( ail. and )et the Loo, member and the ministers talked ut the reductinv they had made! lle was, however, willing to admit, that us compared wills (lie year, is Pad brew 1 he hon. menibet concluded by pi opissieg, as an muted ti.eltl, that it • estimate should be reductd 10,9ge1. Ms. WA hp t pout d the auttuaimetit, as an arbitrary - . I 2 <:~,~' ~: THE NATIONAL REGIST IR wEDNEgnAY, 11%110127. ,l Jw • • 4 proposition made upon guess, and without any foundation to go on. The estimates had been formed on the lowest %cute, consistent with the good of the public service. Col. IMVIES contended that a reduction might take place on several parts of the eoiatates —he particularly adverted to the sale's , Gf the clerk to the Banta, who, emit-kering the magnificent house which had !ken as signed to Il i 11l ,Itad lilt It sr than 2.001. a year. Tile salaiy of the secretary to the Nl.s.ter General was also too it was 1,5001. a year. Tlie finance committee, in their report, had recommended it should be reihiced to 8001. Mr. HUME contended that the palely of the Muster General ought to be redneed, anti he moved a reduction of 10, tIY. on the higher salaries, awl proposed that in stead of 15 81:11. tar salaries and allowances to the Board, the Amin sl ld he 25,8131. Sir It. 14112GIP•iON objected to the int-flit-31 staff, and especially to the salary of the Ditertor th•ner•l. Mr. K. WAIII) defended the appoitiiiiwni. The amendment trav ultimately negatived, and the ori ginal revolution agreed to. Several other 11.101111i1)11. 1 WPIe agreed to, and the report wac °railed to lie re t civet, to-mot row. The retnainio; orders sere disp4sed of, and the house adjourned. TI:ESDAT, M %ROI 26. being only A Members pre,. is at noir o'clark, the Speaker declared the !loom to 6tand itAjourned till to morrow. The linlifax Gas Lig a third time and pared, after a 111'w elanse, proposed by Mr. Sykes, had &KPH 11 ;obvert Wlllllllllll livid ut. Sir F. BuRDETT said, that he wished to postpone the motion of as hick lie hail given nidiee tit 111i4 any, for an whit ...a to the Hine to lentil the tem:Mang portion of Hr. limit's tit nlrcee. lie /amnia tiling it forwnitt on the first open (lay. There oas a good deal of balky evidence which he at litst (leaked to atatl, and lie theiefore post - ',mica the motion. 'flue Speaker and Sir F. liiiraett looked through the order book for some time without a 1 ii an open day ; nod it Wall then &clared that the 'amino was postponed for the present. lie afterwards said lie should bring it forward on Tnearlav Illf•Xt. Mr. N. CII.VERT presented a report from persona altenain~fierifurd ntuket, praiiil; the house toveilh draw their confidence in niiiieder.. The petioners had not heretofore interteierl in politics. Petition ordered to lie on the table. _ Mr. LEN NARD said, lie should bring forward his mo tion for a 'Nicol of seditious meetings additional act, on tlic hilt of May. Sit IL WILSON said, pe.tcons still continued to be fol lowed with penalties for roosted Main; and be is idled lie could get some distinct answer on the %objets?. A person, who had been convicted with Major Cattwright, and sett traced to Mite mouths imprisonment, and that person, after expecting that an excise pioseetition for selling IrOdall'il grain, had been was detained Oil d mil. penalty. If it were enfuiced, he must remain iii i•on all his lily, Mr. LUslll NOTON stated that the treasin y A‘ere still engaged in txiiiitining Ike net io question. The excise board attached great importance to it. Mr. ABEIWROAIBIE hoped that the house would en fotce itirptiry into this .` frateilnleta" act. Sir J. MACKINTOSH gave notice, that on the Ist of Ma) lie should bring forward a unction on the stinject of the et iminal laws, Mr. SYKES prasentecl a Report front Richmond, York shire, signed by upwards 1000 persons, romp) • • gof agi Willi twat dist' f ed to lie on the table. Mr. S. WOlt 1 LEY wished to y ask an hon. %twittery, as the subject was calcislateil to aford relief to agrienlture, by pi ling the consumption of barley, whether there would lie any objection to allow English distillers, like the Irish distilleis, to bond spiiiis ? Mr. LUSHINGTON replied, as we understood Von, that it would be better to suggest such regulation to tile agricultural et aintittee. Mr. Al ABERLEY moved for a series of pallet's relative to the quarantine expener, the exi,iiiitce or Irish packets, Ike —Ordered. He hoped they wool.' 1w presented fit. th w nit ; it they were not so produced, lie should move to have the offending officers called before the house. Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition float John Bat kley, aged IT years, who had been shnionau to Cat hie. He WAS now suffeiing cooler the sent, ace of the 14w, a sentence witiCll he submitted to the house was un justly obtained, for lie was tried by s jury who hail Prr.1 .1,1 11C ,1 his c 4 ,41.. The petilioner was Illicit by the s piry that he , l tried another shopinan for the like offence. .1 icy hail loomd the book a libel, and iciw could they conic to the jorv•boc with a pure mid niiiiiassed mind ? All that was left to tiwiti to do on the trial was to find whether 114,1, or had lint, sold the• hook t they had aliently 111011‘ , Illie411 the book it libel. This, the learned member was a violation of the first pr neiples ut• low ; objections we. e made at the time by the prisoner's 1:1011il• Fel, but Ilse Common Sergeant over-lolled Clem. 'llie lineman had bitterly and t propel ly complained of that des lail)11 of the judge, nod he condi tuned that conduct in Ilse judge. It was not upright and impartial. '1•o sliew its effect, lie said the counsel persuade': the jury of their previous verdict, of the arguments he had then tweed to them, and of the eirecatity of lining consistent with themselves. Thus the prisoner hail to compete with ar guments lie had never heard lie was to be tiled try own oho had already pronounced all 00111011 ill his Cell , C. Lord Coke held that such a jury might fairly lie objected to; indeed it was contrary to the first principles of justice. The jury on lite see I cane—thev had beline decided on the genie libel—di lituerat.d 35 initiuto; and then they ircuuumrndrd the 1,1 tanner to mercy. Ito was sentenced to six Mouths' imprisonment; the other bail been sen• tencrJ to two years' iutplisuupned, sureties fur life, and in prison colidenined to limit labour. " Hard labour'• bonwit no part or Ihr ori g inal sentence, but it wait Said that hind labour followed, of course, ionimitinesit to the house of col fection ■lid yet hard labour, he understood, had been inlcrlioeti in the original sentence. He then 'dotingly conileitmed the Constilutiousl Assneistion—their conduct had been fatally active—they had brought into general dissemination iloctiiiies and books which it Was meant to supine as; airy 11411 (like Sergeant Shepherds prosecution of Ali. Hone) (lsru roust•gneure to that might ',the. wise have reit:Hived fu Uli . C"li t y, I thii tended to produce a flame throughout the roundly ; theft labours bud hero must pernicious, auJ they hail uuw affected the trial by jury. The petiti o n was brought ap. f 9 . The SOLWITOR 7 GENEItAL said, that 'he !pained gentleman could not have read the libel. for one that wa• snore sediliollA and blasphemous he had silver read. lle then observed on the conduct of Mr. Carla', the man ner in whirl' he had defied the laws, employed poor vlanpmen at low wages. and had at last sold the !milli/NI. tiltHS through apertures made in the chop. The conoloy had called out for an emd to be put to those publications am; p r oce edi ng . , and the pruserutiuns had eventually necouttplklued that effect. As to the libel. there could he no doubt about it ; it proclaimed all religion to be a vice, and no better than the mythology of old. With tespect to the jilt y, the jadze hail no cower to chaste , . them ; tho counsel felt that they hod not siiffirient ground to question the jury. The sentences were similar to many that hail taken place in Vie times of Lords Mansfield and Kettyua for blasphemy. Dr. I.USIIINGTON replied, observing that his seed• meats still remained toe same; he maintained that the pelf tiouer hnd not bad it fair trial. The petitioner could not apply for u new trial. Petition road nail ordered to he printed. FSSI:I ASSIZEI.—Sir E. HARVEY' presented a petition fi ton the g mmill jury of Eett, praying fur the adoption a 111e3sUleN that would secure some means of trial fur Es•ea hetwerst the Summer nod Lent tosiz s The long ,crew frequently produced weal hardi.hip. The hon. member knew that the sulijert had been under the :mention of go vernment, and he hoped that much i sue would not he allowed to elapse hefore oabuthing wa. done. • Mr. WEiTER, N seconded the motinn for bringing up the petition; Ile hoped that it would receive the serious atten tion of the !lowae and the (litsernment There am a slew jail building for Essex, anti it wis found, by the enqiiiries that those interested in such subject had promoted, that tone half of those committed to pi ison for teal at the Lent A , iezes had kern c ttttt mined before the 1,1 Jon How roil siderulds wee. the number of prisoners increased, and how greatly had the prkoners' punishment been add, d to, accomhhition of business was similar ill a iteightionring county, for at the ;visite, now gong on Sergeant Lees hail acted as a third joke, and hod trued prisoners in the ana litiptisis' chapel.—( flear.)— Bin to say nothing of this aria. ululation of Inisine,s, how exquisite must be that man's pain of mind, who, tiller so a,nch 1111111411Inelli, by imprisonment, I , llll*lii be eventually acquitted. (llrnr.) Ile thonAlit the Ilouse could not heel :tie to adroit that something ought to be done to insure n more constont administiatiou of the 14W*. fell persuaded that there ought to be, and might be, a more frequent jail delivery; namely, between the Lent and Summer Ass gee. What objection would there be tip ,t judge attending the quarter session, to try such cases as would othernise be postponed to the succeeding assiges,-... And let it be recollected that six judges would be sutitclent for the jail delivery circuit. Par this additional circuit tot least three additional judges might be necessary. but he lumped that the expellee ar ;mid not be deemed an un necessary expense. Mr. said 91;0 the repreentation of each nn tor. portant mid enlightened hotly as the mazistrnev ailiva!s merited the attention of it government. This subject had experienced the most serious attention of the miinstcrs. It as one of great delicacy, and the remedy proposed showed that .t was surrounded with Itut the greatest difficulty was that of adding to the judges. All thn•e were best nennsinted with th• 'object held that such w a s is vi ry crest difficulty. If the plan of the new jail delivery were delivered, there must be tto change of the forms of eon. ducting the regular ass4,s. As in the new jail delivery heing at the quartet sessinns, it must he recollected that they . . most take place witlOn dl'lt• week. Same alteration of that w would be required; Isesides, how could ellettsel attend Oast- se•sions. itind he prepared to Julend their duties in Westm;oster flail io Novensher and January. These were some of the circumstsares that shooed the difreteut &Meals tie:. The govertustrisi. 110 A ever had asttcoded to the suAjeet; . _ and what he NDR bout to cominiiiiiiiatri xnuld •hew it : it was intended, in the course of tile nest winter, In toy the litriment of a Ihird jail &livery. with nne judge, ti.r the home circuit and countier, with grand and petty jur ie., a to. the crucial assize!. 'Ciie petition ate' ordered to lie on the tkiblei Dr. LL )IC/It F. brought for uurtt hit motion for leave to hi lugiu a hill 110'4.s:end tile mart loge act. lle hzd *eye. .1 timra mentioned this sit'oject to the Douse. It appeareil that the Imo ne•nolle.'s first amend mint was, 11141 in ull caw. a lore consent a ii required by toe existing laar t lt would be competent 10 the parents 111141 Cu:at - Ft:lnv if the several 'irile, to impeach the marri.oge daring the minority of 'lime parties. W here the parties rer.olid mu or the kingdom, a a snit nii:ht hr inititnied hi thi parents lie gll/11 . (511111%. nn 1111141a1 , 11 that the parties hail been s•.rsel with notice. Alai that marriage , ' might be set at'tle that hut been snlemn , sed in ',gristle, a bele the pat ties had not !molded a forinight.—. Ile coneludtJ with 'noting fur lease to amend the mar. fla 3. 3 1. Mr. lIIIDUGIIANI spoke of the impel (retinas of the exi.tio-:. A ter 'Dole ton ther cnii.emit ion leave w given. Commit TCE OF St. Prl.T. Ilit• House %%, ut iuto tz coin. mitt,e 4.f Appitt,. nth! Mr. It. WARD I , r tight font ard the remainder of the orolorttiev e.t imaliL On the re5.,!u10..1 for voting 248,0001. for the outs-fence extracodinorivi for 111 u )ear, 111 r. ill? %I F., us ail amendment, proposed to redtiee the ..,on by 13 0001. that VI 111 10,060 for Desucrur.s, nod SUOOI. for the l mints Wench,. Mr. 11 I LMOT slid he was in daily expectation of re. eciciog advice from Demerara of twin prepared to inlay that stso. :ts to the laaiatt Isles the) %vete not hound to pay the Whims, e•tnh:ivhment. After some consetsation s M - . Flume rout...lard to o Ititdrs w hie m,dnnt. Mr. CALI:VEY then sitivi fled to the vote of 401101. fur the repair of the fill t !ficatioin ~ f 114111:idoe,.. Their Wet it fond from whirr Ilua pole 1.1101 l to be taken. the 4 per few. filial. toil Mow sill given by miniorr% in psu•ums, :owl it ea. by thi4 method that to rorrovird the VoleS .1% I h it now pi "mrd were adopted, be rout.) only emeeeter chit :Is drfrol ii ~, e 3endily. order! Clinic, chair I) might be eii;lo,l Io ...41,,, l•et if he wen• to die Ito it he would still it a •sled te..rothly ~t Ion;; tot it nxreed to so It proolyitioui, ((' ,r, !)—!10 concluded by noising, to re.:uce ihr rote b♦ the. strut pio po.ed to be uppeolo titled to the friitursu4 the rortili aliens 11.iihrido.... _ _ ate,: Nt . ilmo: s NI r. no i,:111t. nod ushers oppo‘esi the ittnrsail. meld. Nis.. palloi3Oriell t1.11 ., ..1. 1311•11 I, hoorvi.s, was solottleJ on a kisoi so is) 39 t. 11. ti .rtly hev..e were adopted, and the Howe ad. joututtl at to rive 44% /of k. see fsst 181 ~~ - ..