The National Register. — London, England, 1822-05-27 00:00:00

168 imperial Parliament continued from page 16S. snittee on naval sad military pensions, called the ettentirm of the House to the resolutions on this subject, agreed to on the Sd of May last. He described the resolutions. The pensions were eonsieleted in the nature of a public debt, the House re eognivong the propriety of relieving the finances from the pres im..e of inch charge by so equable arrangement of the sante.— With this view it was preposed to epeeisd the charge over 45 vein, though then the debt might not be extinguished. The Meuse recognized the principles. When the resolutions were agreed to, lie proceeded to take ns to carry them into elieet ; and the propetee • had been considered with catelotir. lint in point of fact so biddings had been ninde, though many commnuications from several bodies bad taken place. Ile now hoped to sal • propositions thst would give satisfaction. He proposed that the charge should be separated ; that trustees sheath, he named by and under the controul of Parliament ; and if any gain should result from the transaction, the benefit to go to the public.—There were to he invested in the hands of those treaters the suns of 2,800,0001. calculating the rde of interest at 31 per cent. That brought the annuities to the amount he had elated. He had taken the calculation at 100,0001. less t:voi what the hiddings might have been—a matter to be re membered when they considered the remission of the tax. To superintend the annuities to be created, there were to be four trustees, the Chancellor of thu Exchequer, paymasters, Sec.— Hi% third resolution regarded the means of osrrying the plan into effect, to make certain sales, or the Tressury to advance Exchequer Bills. The plan would thus operate advantageously o hen the long annuities bad been created. The dividends were to be paid in October and April—and thus means for the January and July payments would be provided. In five years the amount to be met would be reduced to 4,100,0001, The ennui tiea to be lodged in the bands of trustees would, in time, meet time charge in its reduced form. The whole plan would of course he connected with the sinking fund.—(Hear.)—No sum bowet a was to be taken from the commissioners; the five million.; wore to remain unimpaired in their hands. That sink ing fund was not in be touched. By the plan there would be a sat Mg to the public of 2,200,0001.—but the remission of taxes could not be to that amount, as there were some growing charges to be pros bled for—hut 400,0001. it was calculated Mould answer the purpose. That sum, the 400,0001. lie should proper should be added to the sinking fund till it should be oatited ; it would thus operate to reduce the debt and the the harden of the country. He might be considered as having anticipated the resolutions before he came to •the particular views of the government; and with the ultimate Tiros lie had proposed that certain tax hills should be referred to the com mittee. In the first place. there was no tax that it was so de sirable materially to reduce as time salt tax.—(l-lesr.)--He should propere to give up thirteen shillings out of fifteen.— ( he tax at present produced 1,500,0001.; time re election would amount to 1,300,0001. He also proposed the duty in Scotland from Gs. to 2e. so that the tit ey wortld be the *lime in England, Scotland, and Ireland. lie likewise propmeed to repeal the Irish hearth and window tax, producing hardly 2.0,0001., the leather tax laid on in 11412, producing 300,0001. the tonnage on ships homewards and outwards, producing 150,0001. These repeals and reductions would he altogether 2.000,0001. (Cheers,) He concluded with moving the follow ing resolution That is the opinion of this Committee, that for the pur pose of apportioning, conformably to the resolutions of this House of the 341 day of this instant month of May. the burden occasioned by the military and naval pensions, it is expedient that an equal annual annuity of I:2,800,000 terminable at the end of 45 years, should, from the sth day of April, 1822, be seated in trustees to he named by Parliament ; snit that the said annuity should lie charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. That it is the opinion of tide Committee, that the said trusteef should pay into the Exchequer the several annual sums hereinafter mentioned, by four equal quarterly inetalments, on or before the 15th January, the 15th April, the 15th July, and the 20th October, the first payment thereof to ho made on the 20th October, 18 . 22.--[Here follow a series of annually de creasing sums, from £4,000,000 in the ensuing year to £300,000 in time year ending the 15th July, 1867.) —And that %tic said several sums, or such part thereof as may be necessary b!.0%1.1 be appropriated and applied couformably to the said re 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that for the pur pose of mudding the said trustees to make time several pay ment,' bereitibefore mentioned, et the Exchequer, at the several periods eforeseid, they should be empowered, from time to time, to sell and dispose of so much of the said annuity as may Le necessary fur that purpose, hut so as that no greater amount of annuity should be sold n disposed of, in any one year, than would be sufficient to rale. the rums necessary to complete the whole of the payments to be made within the year, or to discharge and pay time principal and interest of Buy Exchequer Lulls which may have been issued on account of such payments. 4. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that fur the pur pose of tumbling the NUJ trustees the more readily to provide the means necessary for making the said payments, in the most convenient amid economical manner, the Commissioners of Ids Treasery should be empowered to issue, to the said trustees, Exchequer bills, to an amount not exceeding the sums necessary fur completing from time to time the said payments ; which Exchequer billet, together with the interest thereupon, should from lime to lime be discharged and aatisfied by the said trustees out of any monies to arise by the sale of the said annuitins, or out of the dividemle thereof ; and that, until such pa VOICIII, the interest accruing on inch Exchequer bind may he paid out of any supplies voted by Parliament, Mr. Calcrslt, Sir J. Newport, &o. congratulated the House In liming eflicted these reductions. Mr. HOME wished that the taxes lad been repealed alto ember. as the collection of those duties cost upwards of A:10,0G0 a year. lie also wished that the +ahem* growing out of the resolutions should he carried into effect by the Sluking Vend Commissio era, that would save the expence and nos , el inery of new Commissioners. He concluded with moving as an amendment, that the J:2,4100,000 that smild be canted fog the next 16 years, should Ike taken from the Sinking Fund, Lord LONDONDERRY opposed Wit proposition, and said Pot the reductions of taxes were not the result of opposition, hue the consequence of support the government had raped. otio•d. Mr. WILLIAMS was in favour of the amendmeot. Mr. CRI PPS supported the edgiest resolution ; as to the proposed repeal of the Salt Tax, he was consinced, tinething was said to replete it to the public, they would de e.se but little ads antsge from it. Captain MABERLEY was in favour of taking the mousy smiled from the Stoking Fund. Mr. MARTIN was of the same opinion, ho gallery *a! times cleared for a disision no Mr. Hume's amendment—For the resolution or tha Chancellor of the Ex eheauer, 115—for Mr. Haute's natiernimeut s.iss-111oPtity foe M.niatara THE NATIONAL ItEn I Several other resolutions, as to the mode of paying the an nuitants, &c. wore put and agreed to. The House resumed, the chairman reported progress, sad the report was ordered to be received on Thursday next. The American Trade Bill and the Celt:mist Trade Bill went through erinimittees.--Report oa Friday neat. Mr. MARTIN moved the second reading of the 111-treat men► Animals' Bilk The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill should be read a second time this day six months. Upon this amendment a long conversation followed. The Utmost divided. For the amendment in, for the second Trailing 19, majority in favour of the bill 11. The bill nu then read a second time. and committed for Monday week. Adjourned at 12 o'clock to Thursday next. FROM TUESDAY IV1:11T'S G.IZETTE, BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. R. W. Dean and T. W. Cooke. Bethnal Green. brewers. BANKRUPTS. _ _ _ . J. Heys. Stockport, Cheshire, draper. Solicitor, Mr. Bettye, Chancery Lane. J. Blythe. Wellington. Shropshire. draper. Sola Messrs. A dlingtou and Co. Bedthnl Row. W. and H. Breedon, Ituddington. Nottinhamshire, dealers in horses. Soles Messrs . Long anti Co. Gray'‘ Inn. W. Colson, Plymouth, grocer. Sins. Maass. Swain and Co. Old Jewry. J. Joplin. Sunderland, linen draper. Sob. Messrs. Bell and Co. Bow Churchyard. T. Newton, llo!beach, I.incolnshire, and W. N. Newton, West Walton, Northlk, jobbers. So ls. Messrs. Willis and Cu. Warnford Court, Throgrnorton Street. J. S. and A. E. Fowler, Liverpool, merchants. Sol. Mr. Taylor, John Street, Bedford Row. W. Tenfold, Clutton, Somersetshire, builder. Sol. Mr. Bur. foot, Temple. J. Collins, Vincent Place, City Road, broker. Sol. Mr. Fen ton, Austinfri..rs. T. Kent, Kirton Holme, Lincolnshire, butcher. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. .1. and W. Dodd, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, grocers. Sol. Mr. 13a , tyc, Chancery Lane. W. Humphreys, Biliesdon, Leicestershire. draper. Soles. Messrs. Moore and Co. New Serare, Lincoln's Inn. W. Gibson and F. Foram, Trinity Square, corn factors. Soles Messrs. Parnther and Co. London Street, Fenchurch street. E. Fulton, Earl Street. B:ackfriors, coal merchants. Sol. Mr. BJVain:An, Union Court, Broad Street. DIVIDENDS. May 25, A. Kelly, Colonnade, Pall Mall, jeweller—U. T. 'Mulligan. Bath, silk mercer-23, P. Young. jun. and R. An derson, Wapping. sail makers—June 11, W. Ambrose. Clupton, carpenter.—ll, J. Gregory, Black wall, butcher-11. R. Needham, Queen's Buildings, Brompton Road, silversmith-11, %Lincoln, St. James's Street. Muter-12, R. Sullows, Hadleigh, Suffolk, grocer-1.5. S. Leigh, Strand, bookseller -20, IL Reynolds, Shobruoke, Devon, tanner-12, C. Martin, Great Yarmouth, linen diapers—s, S. Humphreys, Charlotte Street. Portland Place, merchant-7, T. Tipping, Wairington, miller-13, T. Freane, Worcester, cabinet maker—ii. W. Watkins, Worces. ter, corn factor-12, It, M`Kay, Knutsford, Cheshire, liner draper-IY, J. Smith, Shrewsbury,linen draper-14, W. Wilson, Gateshead, Durham. ship owner-12. T. Perkins, Manchester, and S. Armstrong, New Mills, Derbyshire, cotton spinners -15, J. Cook, Helmsley, Yorkshire, merchant—gl, E. .51itson, Wor cester, tea dealer, and J. Penn, Birmingham, soap boilers. CERTIFICATES to be grunted June 11. .1. Ripley, Wapping High Street, mathenu.tical instrument maker-I'. Reynolds, King Street, Southwark, chimunktn—W. Banton, Northwich, Cheshire, grocer—C. C. Wright, Crooked Lane, upholder. LAO INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MONDAY, MAY 20. THE JOHN BULL NEWSPAPER. TDB XING v. WEAVER, SDACAELL. AND ARNOWAMITH. As soon as the Judges had taken their seat*, these de fendants appeared on the flour of the Court to receive judgment. Ms. Justice Bayley addressed them in nearly the following terms .1 You have been found guilty of publishing in a news paper called the John Bull, during the montlisof February, Marcie, April, and Nlay, 1811, five libels on her late Ma jesty. Wheel y int were last before the Court, those libels were ►tatedsutficiently tor the purposes of justice, and they must he too fresh in the recollection ot all to need repetition at present. No one can &Mit that in point of law they are earsit and every one of them a it el, as they greatly exceed the tilting bounds of newspaper discussion. A newspaper is the proper vehicle fur intelligence; its pages may also be open to tiobcr, calm, ' passioned disquisition, but it niust never ho the medium of private or tit political calumny. At the time %ben you were last before the Court, you said nothing to aggravate your of fence, 'lite Court observe that you are now in custody for another libel, not unconnected with the subject of the present charge, but that none of these passages were pub lished since the former sentene a was pronounced on you. Had you, after the warning you then received, offended in the same way, in defiance of the Conti, it would have been a high aggravation of your present clime. One of you, Thomas Arrow►mitb, has made an affidavit, confit toed by a medical gentleman, stating that lie labours under an indisposition which additional imp:imminent would in crease, and whit h taay thus endanger his life ; that is nut the object of the Court, who ate always desirous of listen ing to every thing which can be urged in mitigatiuu of puni►hment, 11 forbearance shall be exercised towards this defendant, iu consideration of his infirmity, 1 it list that it will have it* tine influence on his mtud, and induce hint t.• make a suitable room fur the mercy ►hown him, by refra • ' g from similar publications in Wine, The Cern t, taking all the circumstance* of the ca►e into its consideration, do order and adjudge, that yon Thomas rowsmitli do pay a flue of dlldh. to the King; and that you Robert Thomas Weaver, nod you *liackell, Le severally imprisoned its the King's tlencli prison fur three months, and do each of you pay to the King a tine of Rm. end that you do all give security ter your good behaviour fur fire )ears, youiselves iu 5...01. and twu sure ties in 2501. each, and that you be itopri►uue4 till ►uch fines be paid, 4114 such teCßEltirk; The detrinlants bow ed, and left the Court in custody, Tile a V. TIIR rt•Mltcts OV rt•trefsllln li , Mr. acailett showed cense eguiett.t a rule calling on die Jotters of the county of Flint to ►hew cause why 4 Cer tiorari should out isboc directed to them, to lenitive into this cow t an order made by them, or 11Q1110 of mew, ea It gener st qua' irr se►sion of the peace, holden at Aluld, on the !Zulu of July last, for levying VIM. ss. lid, and empow oriel; the county 111.70111er le 'apply It in 114111/211PCIlt of the vlaitits ul dleurs. Saulay loaruca wapiti easti:d, that al the Easter quarter sessions of the peace, in 1812, an older had been made authorizing the county treasurer, who was since dead, to borrow 1,0001. towards candying on the county works then in progress. This sum he bor. rowed of the house of Messrs. Sankey, at Duly% ell, mad deposited with them the order, by way of security lOr the loan, and also borrowed further slims fur the comity pur poses, making in the whole • debt of 10321. 15s. 4d. Theo sams were certainly repaid by November, 1514; Ant subsequently to that time lie had borrowed other sun s from them to the 11111011111 of 1,6411. ss. 10d. which, in No vember, 1819, was reduced, try various payments, to the of 4471. 1151.6 d. Dining all this time the original order remained as a steamily for advances to be merle, as it was never intended that the whole 1,11001. should be ad vanced at once, but only when required by the exigencies of the county. 'lire partners in the firm, except one, had in the meals time been changed ; and the new partners had continued to advance Homey on tire Will of the ori. ginal order until the balance of +7l. 15s. 6d. was left due to them. In October, 1820, Messrs. Sankey applied to the quarter sessions for payment of this balance, amid air order was made to pay theta the whole, but they forbore then to press fur payment, at the request of the magistrates, br consequence of local ciictimstances; and on their repeat ing the application, Ilse order to pay the 11901. ss. (id. now complained of, was made. It bail been suggested that these soon were advanced to the late treasurer in leis psi. vale capacity, mud hail been applied by litur to his private purposes; but the fact was quite otherwise; for the pan ties had been at the trouble of tracing how all she monies had been disposed of, and they lied tumid that all wer a duly applied to the legitimate purposes of the county. The Lord Chief J urn ice.—Let us hear the order. Mr. Pao k read the order, which was professedly to levy the emu of 2001. s*. 6d. by a late, to be paid over to Sankey. 'Floe Lord Chief Justice.—l cannot think this rate good on the face of it. It is a rate peofesseilly to reimburse, which I 111111 k the magistrates cannot order; the applica tion of the y raised is a very different thing. Mr. Seat lett said, the magistrates were authuriged to borrow by statute. The Lord Chief Justiee.—Then they should have !w -etted the course prescribed iu the statute. The certierar must issue ; but probably all parties will be satisfied by the understanding that the practice shall cease iu the connty.—Rule for the certiorari absolute, TILE KING U. If ESTI. ACOTT ANS) OTIIEN2. Mr. Common Sergentit showed cause agnitist the rule ob. mined by Mr. TUFIOII, for a criminal Information agairnt the editor and publishers of the Gasette of Fashion, fur a libel, which, professing to be part of an expositor of the gambliii4 houses in the metroipolos, imputed to Mr. Fielder, not only than he was concerned in several, but that he hood caused Melds to be platen within the teach of his brother, who was insane, Midi whieli he shot himself. and that na forged this brother's will. The teamed counsel said that, unless the prosecutor were conscious taut lie was implichted in gambling transactions. lie could scarcely have had en derstoorl that the paingrapli nut applicable to himself. lie was called " Field Manilla! J 0111), L;olarbillidel"--- Mr. Justice Bayley imptited if the prosecutor had not been convicted of keeping a gambling-house in that can , beeriest. lie - remembered his suo prise that a perinni of teat name had not been brought up for judgment. Mr. Common Sergeant.—lt is the same, any Lord r he is a very opulent pers..... Mr. Tutton.—l did not know dint money could divert theorem, of justice. The imputations complaiiied of are quite of :mother deur ipt ion. Mr. COMMIIII Sergeant replied, that they were uudnubt. edly other impel:ohms wish h he did not mean li' Justify, But there were also mots of the la - tides, charging Mr. Fielder with bents propoietor of ganileong-houses, mid a lilt having been convicted in that court, winch he had not sees lured to deny. Naw, he appreheuded, that a part) made out no 011ie for a cresol's:it ilatirillalitio 11111c63 he denied the whole charge. If a person had been accused of murder stud burglary. a,nuld tile Court interfere to looted him when he only eta ore that lie nab imroceist of the litat 1 Here also the principul deleoduoit had cleared himself, in a great nurture, lay encoring, that he did nut know the Whin of the taut lie had never situ it before it was printed, that he OM. celled the sheet tie boom as be perceived it. and .rat to offer Mr. Fielder any separu - inn w hieh lie might di she. Ceder three cirrunotainers, tie submitted, them was na reason' why Mr. Fielder should claim the extracirdiuur) interference of the Omit tor his protection. Mr. C. Phillyb, on the same side, contended, that the prosecutor, neatest whom toeless than seven indictment* fur aurtults or heeds had been preferred, ought to he left to seek redress fr the ordinary tribunal*. Ile noonld be well consenanot with the modes of pi oceedisigs in a ll of them ; of seal to the erssiuns, there he had bean before I if brought into this Court, he ..as stall at home. It was (Ming only the mercy tit the prosecutor that he was not now standing on that flour to receive the judginent of their landships. Mr. „Insilco! Itest.-1. believe you are gib isle the prose, cum credit far a motive to which he is not at all entitled. Mr. Tut - lint, in eply, admitted, that if his client had made the iminotortimi of rambling the grimed of his com plaint. he must have deified it on oath ; but here he coins phoned of cintrgie of initialer an./ 1.411 ry, fur which ihro was not the stiglite.t foundation. tiruolinll, fer the sake of allotment, that lie had kept gambling I ~ we. Val: any reset/II ally of/epees should be imputed to him which Writild affect lilt life? Because in !SIT be lied been cum victed of keeping a gaming house, was lit in 1e;22 to 03 accused ct citifies of the deerest dye ? 11l the coe al prßolte of very exalted rank, the Court although they bail been guilty of Ike troy offence oe which the libel was founded, And surely Is was nut far the interests of the public peace that Noy tudividoll would be thus libelled as illoant ionmelliate redress, cutild that be tempted to eel -tatty for himself ,illslices The L,oird Chief J C.- -I liupe it will out be iirlder ,. • stood that the court mean to hold out that seeli libels may be published with impunity. This case can be a reels , dent to very few, b cause I hope will hare hitt few parallels. We think the rule must b e discharged, and the party left to his or distal y teinedies. 60tiows 44r Term et (Auld:tall I.eihro the Ford Ciel wfuNealP4Y, *AT mAsou I), MOLINE AND OTP:Iti, Tlll4 RetiOD MoS brought by the plaintiff, a bresrer's 4g:9t. against the Mendota, assignees of !Stoker aki carried on the besiuess of biewers, at Stratford, to recover "lallegsalioa of one and a liall per cent. which he claimed to. agency and procuring, a purchaser for the Stratford brewer!. tt Lich the aastgneea sold for the benefit of the creditors. Mt. Marotta stated tho Gate. It appeared, that is lAqi. iliSc4i l, 4 of orecliturk staler insdvisoN 4 40 ' 4 Ow ...