The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-28 00:00:00

bus left to herself, parties ceased, and the law became peed,- dominant. It might Le said, that the King's Writ theh ran through every family ; and never were the laws so well obeyed as during that brilliant period. Let the same system be again adopted. Restore uolim toe the country again, and again would Ireland return to obedience, to the laws, and to the govern melds but never would that brilliant period - return till the same system as Men prevailed should be again restored. The (Inn. Baronet then proceeded to advert to the Act of 1793, and to the measures of that day ; which, he said, were far from tending to unielioi ate their situation. Anil having said thus mach, he would call on Gentlemen to look to the records of Parliament, and •ce in how sma!l a compass the benefits con ferred on that unhappy country would lie, and then look to the sacrifices of bland and treasure which she had made. Her taxes, previous to the Union, never exceeded 1,500,0001. ; while, since that period, her annual average expenditure had been 1000,0001.; and her debt had been increased from 1 1,000,0001. to 1,..;0,000L Her blood bad been liberally shod in a contest of twenty years ; nod now, at the , expiration of that period 6.000.00 of her population were excluded from the advantages of the Constitution, and a force of 25,000 men weie quartered upon her to keep the refractory in awe. Why, he would ask, were there refractory at all in Ireland any more than in England ?—from misgovermnent ; and into that misgo vernment he now called on the Haase to enquire.—The lion. Baronet went on to state, that among the evils which menaced Ireland were to be enumerated Orange societies, illicit distil lation, the mode of electing High Sheriffs , . ; and what had been too much the practice, namely. the patronage of those who tra duced and vilified three-fourths of their countrymen, because they were of,a different religious persuasion. He described amid dilated on these topics at some length. and concluded" with roving an Address to the PrMce Belem, which declared the necessity of providing an army of 25,000 men for the security Vi si, %sus a rust ground for enquiry into the state of that count Y, with a view to extirpate The evils ; and requesting his Rood Highness to lay such Documents before the House as ~;,01,111 lead to a deliberate investigation, and to the rescue . f the country from the disorganized state. in which it at pre saw is. _ _ . Mr. Peet complimented . the Rt. Hon. Bart on the dispas sionate manner in which he had brought the subject forward, unmixed with party matter. With respect to the motion, he was disposed to concur in pact. He would not conceal the state onreland, and must regret that a state of disturbance does exist , nor would he refuse information on that paint. The Rt. Hon. Gentleman referred to various Writers to shew, that evils had arisen from the bad habits of the natives, and customs which were diegracefid. It would be desirable for the House re ascertain the state of the lower orders. Most of the poor take small portions of land from the farmer, which was partly paid for irrlabour, and partlyin rent ; his food was very course; and it would be higisly desirable lithe Irish peasant could have those comforts which the English peasant enjoys. He then proceeded to discuss the existing causes as stated by the Rt. Hon. Gentleman, and in respect to the appointment of High Sheriffs, which be admitted might reptile amendment. The Rt. lion. Batonet had not , alluded to Catholic emancipation; hut he could not avoid Mating, that, in his opinion, such a mea sure e °Mil not lend to tranquilize the people. On the contrary, lue believed that the residence of the landlords would do more to prevent the disturbances so generally deplored. He con cluded with moving cer ta in amend scents, " generally concurring the regret for the necessity of the establishment of a military force in Irilatel daring profound peace, and re %nesting the hying belie e, the House such documents as should show the disti l l bid state of that country, 6:e. , ' , ruse err considered the question as bearing on the ieterests of, Britain itself. The Rt. Hon. Gentleman, having disclaimed party feeling, proceeded to descant upon what he considered the misgovernment of Ireland ; and first with re. aspect to the Insurrection Act, two months had elapsed since the Act was apalied for, at which time only two counties, Tippe. vary and Meath, were stated to be in a disturbed state; since then four countries were added to the unmber. So that, instead of 24,900 meat to keep the country in a state of repose, 40,1100 men would not be sufficient. It had been truly stated, that it was owing to a general discontent against the law, and hatred to those persons appointed to administer the laws. The amend meat of the Rt. Hon. Gent. would not cure the evil—the come_ qiiences were already known—the CaliseS ought to be enquired into, or a remedy could not be applied. He wished to know whether any measure was to be brought forward for the relief of Ireland. If not, and they were to be left in a helpless and degraded state, it was a mockery of Government. The carry. tag of the Catholic Question would be calculated to do much good, if rendered palatable to the Protestants. In fact, it was the rine qua ann. There was a power of making Leland the • mainstay of our State; and, by misgovernment, she wax capable el being made mar deadliest enemy, and our destruction.—lf Government wished to govern Ireland, it Should retrace its swats, and not govern by n Protestant ascendancy. but by a stomp 4 to union among .all classes of the community in that toiletry. Mr. V. FITZGERALD contended, that the evils complained of had not arisen from the prevent or any recent Giver 'RI of Iceland; but from the bad Government, Ages before there was any difference of religion between the two conotrieF, It was 'his intention to propose the repeal of the House-duty in Ire ; and that the duty on hearths should be taken off all houses that had not three hearths in each. These might seem masters of little importance to the House ; but they were of great importance to the Irish peasantry. —He hoped, small as those concessions might appear, that they would be considered as proefsof the willingness of Government to benefit, as far as possible, 'he people of Ireland. But be would nut consent to the abandonaumt of the penalty for a violation of the Excise Laws; as he considered their enforcement to be most materi ally necessary to.the maintenance of peace and order in Ire iand. )Ir. GRATTAN theucht the prestiou was capable of being re do:cif to three Leads; first, financial distress; secondly, of commercial distresses; and, lastly, the state of insurrection in which some parts oft were plunged. The best remedy should te to repeal the Penal LAWS, as applicable to the Catholics. tic: fiminciol distress was very great; but this country should consider, that it. had both the DitalAs and the remedy in its r.wn Any thing that destroys Ireland would destroy Great Britain; and, therefore, whenever we found Ireland sucking ender distress, we ought to administer to her assistance ith our wealth. The commercial correspondence between tae two co u ntries should be established on grounds of mutual advanteer a The great mode of cure for, the evils under whirls Ireland groaned, was by administering retie, where it etas applicable, to the greater evils, and the lesser borthens world of themselves. As to the insurrections ittirelawd, i u Inc opinion, they ought to be. put down by a mild eiternime of the lava, rathcr.flhatu by the, power of the military; Or it' the furrow measure were pummel, the very criminal wha steered. si-ol or the law, roast praise th at Constia ;stip° which emits:mama , • .. :hated s.-et to .. TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. she had assisted in carrying Europe through duos and In ing ing her into light: and, atter having made sill Europe our friends by destroying the rancorous enmity of Buonaparte, vice surely had time to advert to the situation of lrcland, tor• the purpose of ameliorating her dlffienlties. Lot CASTLEREAGH said, that whatever difficulties might snr round this question, it must he pleasing to considerwith what temper it had been conducted on both sides of the House. The Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last had particularly infuser' that temper and conciliation into the debate. Ile was, honever, of opinion that, that the enquire (if any were ne cessary) should orighiate with his Right lion. Friend (Mr. Peel), who lird admitted that certain remedial steps were ne ce-sary. He hoped the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Newport) would therefore give way, with a view to unanimity, Air. Purist's/eV supported the original address. Mr. BATHURST was in favour of the amendtnent. Sir F. Ft.non supported the original address. Sir N. COLTHURET recommended that, for the sake of una nimity, the Mover of the original Address and of the Amend ment, should each concede a little. Sir J. NEWPORT shortly replied, and the divided — For the amendment 187—Against it 105.—Majority is farom• of Ministers $2. NEW SOUTH WALES In a lett,^r, dated June the 20th, we have the following ac count of the newly-discovered 'country in New South Wales, behind the Blue Mountains, which before the year 1814, was a complete Terra hteognita:— "The new country is but thinly peopled, and its natives re semble much those about Sydney, though their language is very different: they differed also in.. being well covered with kangaroo skins, sewed together very neatly with sinews of the emus; they wore the fur ►ide next their skins, and on .the upper or flash side they had picked, very ingeniously at.d re gularly, orruimental devices, among which were crosses. They seemed to be a laughing, good-natured people, without the savage warlike spirit or fairy of Cm Sydney natives. They had with them tamed native dogs, with which I fancy they caught kangaroos. Their spews ate heavy anti clumsy, and they threw them only :sshort distance out of their haieds, like the New Zealanders.. "The day we loft Bathurst riailtS, the Governor dispatched Mr. Evans, Deputy Land Surveyor, with two men and horses, to proceed as far as he could to the westward. He returned a few days ago, after having penetrated in a doe west direction lb miles from Bathurst. He reporls all the trae:a of country he passed over to be even superior to that we explored, and much more thickly peopled; which he attributes to the asto nishing herds lie constantly saw of kangaroos and emus, on which the natives sehaisted, togetNer with abundance of fish, which a considetabiy,siaed river, running to the westward, abounded with. "The river is nearly the size of the Hawkcsbory ; and, as far as he can judge, may be easily explored with a boat, or i ra veiling alongjts banks, through a beautiful plain fertile coun try. He has brought with him hither a large mnunity of the fi n est manna 1 Incve ever seca s which he collected among the grass and in the burnt fields, .which lee described to be cluster ed with it, in small pieees. I conclude it to the product. of • our locust insect cl'et4;ania); either what those insects have deposited hi the grass, or what they contained when bey were destroyed by the grass Liking till. The natives %%erg very shy, and alarmed at his appearance. He foimd whole mountains of fine blue lime-stone, and a profusion et' the emanion nova mina pebbles, topazes, and crystal", uswilly found on the coast of llass's Straits. The entmery lawiil wooded; and among the trees are numerous pines, dtl fiat high, without u brauch. The se:Hand pasturage is rich in dm saxtreme." IRELAND. CITY COURT CORK. April I. I.—Timolky was tried and convicted for the murder of his infnut daughter. The prisoner was a workman, or servant, of a person of the name of Attridge, in the neighbourhood of Skibb..reen,, at wltose house the child was. The prisoner, pretending so remove t:•ic child to the house of his brother-in-law, took her from Attridge's house one morning, and on his way he inhumanly strangled the child, and concealed Ater body imaue sonic earth and stones. The child nut having been heard of, the prisoner was taken up and. carried before Mr. Robinson, a magistrate, before whom he acknowledged his crime, but said he woks 111/OUle when he per petrated it. It seems that this nuhappy- man was induced to murder his child, in consequence oe(s.torniale, f,or whom lie en tertained au affection, refosing to merry him, he having a child so old as eight or niuc yea's. Tim prisoner way sentenced to be hanged. . . Richard Young• was initicteAl for the murder of his son T. Young. llrniel Mahony, examiled by Mr. Quin,--knew Yining the prisoner, and identified him, and knew T. Young his sou, who is dead. When deceased lost his life, the prisoner lived at New Court, near Skibbereen; saw deceased killed; the pri soner was his father; was present when T. Young cause on tha roa I near the prisoner's house; at this time witness and pri. toner were standin,Ton the liag:,7ard ditch; deceased accosted his father and desired he would ‘serill him out a suit of clothes which helonged to him; prisoner :Aid he would not; upon this prissier and witness went down into the. yard, and prisone . r went into his house, and sent out :o deceas,4l some chairs ss hick he had bought at ibkibbereen, mod deceased seeing one of them broken, observed, that it was poor spite in the father to break the chair, and desired his brother to take the chairs back, and that he would make a bill against his father fie them, and charge him with the co. to of them; the prisoner desired de cea3ed to leave the road, and not to be daring him in-that man ner; leceitsed replica, that it was the kitig's.high road, and that he had as Ulna liberty to be there as any other person; the prisoner said, lie would soon make b4s lc are it, and imme diately went into the house, where witness followed him, and prisoner went into Lis bed room, bringing a gnu which he carried out, witness did not follow himmit until he heard the report of a slim, which was immediately after the prisoner quiarti the door, witness went cut, and he site/ the tie eased half staeding tigane:t the paddock wall bleeding , and he saw the pris.mer make over and strike him with the gull lepeatedly, the butt viol of whili he broke on his head; the deceaseddied immediately after he was struck with the gun... Sl`Vcrtl witnesses were called, whose test Otiosity corroborated the pre( eviderw.- It was stated that the deceased was once the lOvourite of the father; fait hiving lea him to cohabit . with 30 almittemed k had interred.. Ma anger. 11:a. defrneo. Oa prisoner - .Vet, deranged in his mind, and thmsg!: w.tak !y he MAs ::C!pit .ATRIT., 'B. WILSON BRUCE, AND HUTCHINSON. PARIS, APRIL 23. ASSIZE COURT of the DEPARTMENT of the SEINE. TRIAL RELATIVE TO THE ESCAPE OFT lit: CONVICT LAVALETVE. SITTING OF TAE 22D OF Arun.. ROBERT TIIOMAs WILSON, horn at London, aged 88, a major. general not in active service, resident at Paris, in the rue de la Paix • No. 21 ; :%11( BH . LCE, English gentleman, aged 2n, born and do miciliated ut Loudon, re,ident at Paris, in the rue St. Georgr, , No. s-,1; and _ _ Jowl Ilt:Ly HUTCHINSON, a native of Wexford, in Ireland, aged *A, captain of grenadiers in the Ist regiment of guilds ,of the King ofEngluntl, r, siding at I'3A-is, in the rue du fiel der, No. Appeased yeiterday before the assize court, together with ..laequitivEberle, turukcy of the house of justice , Jean itiptiste Roquette de Kergaidee, head gaoler of the sane prison ; Gue rin, alias Nlareugo, Madame Lavalette's chairman ; and Be noit Bonneville, valet of M. Lavuletle, charged respectively with having taken a part, 1110 re or less direct, in the escape of Lavalette. The trial, which attracted an immerse auditory, moon:: whom we remarked a great number of Eaglishmen and English ladies, commenced at eleven o'clock, ft. Ltom a in de Seze, son of the pcer.of the same name, so honourably distinguished by his &knee of• Louis XVI. sat as preilde:st of the court. The other judges were 31essrs.Plaisaud lila Chateau, °davitle, De •cerny, Digity, Demetvfory. M. Hun, the advocate-general. was charged with the rum- Cons of public prasocutor. The Joey consisted of Tronillehert, Tiron, Duplessis,Lemit, Thereuin, Coition de Chapelle, Eden, Blain% illiers, Morse, Delivre, Marco:ray, Cottereau. The ac cused ware introduced, and placed on different benches as•- •eording to the nature of the d4fferint charges against them. General Wilson was in grand uniform, and ornamented with brilliant decorations of seven or eight milers of different states of Europe, one of which was thy grand cordon of the Russian Order of St. Anne. Captain Hutchinson wore the uniform and decorations of his rank. At 11 o'clock, M. Deseze, jun. the president of tae court, opened the sitting in these terms:—" The court is going to sub mit to the investigation of the jury several accused persons, French and foreigners, in a cawe which has ter a long time •tived the public attention. The court is convinced-that the persons admitted to this assembly will not in any way distill b the public tranquillity : that they will observe that religious silence %%hidh is due to the preftt,lsCC of law and of justice. The accused being called upon to give their names, surname, and qualities. :cave their description us before mentioned. M. Bruce said with energy—l am au ErgiiAseitizen. The President then observed, that ulthonglr the three Eng li,lnnen relied upon the correct know ledge which they ap pear( d to have of ths.Freneli language, and dtil not ask for an interpreter, vet the lac" of: rance, alwar: a law of protection, illud that the accused siNtild lint be deprived of any means of tacilituting their justitie..lion, even when unclaimed; the court, therefore, named to that °dice M. John Robert, wino ac cordingly took the usual oath. . . _ trace (speaking the French langitioge.)--Gentlemcii of the Bench ani fientlensett of the Jury, .I.llave :t due:at - at...it to make to yint.in the nettle and my two coulitrynien. AltLouglt we have stibutizied oursel% 9 11 , t LOA in consequeuee-ofthe act usation suroinst us, w e have never lost privilege of invoking the law of tiation.v. Reciprocity among nations is the tint article of all tit ; aid as in land French culprits hate the right of demanding a jlily coin posed half of En 111111 ballof foreigners, it appeared* t • us that the same right, Or, if you will, the same favour, could nut be refused to us m F'rance. With this view, we submitted to eminent lawyers of our ow a nation several questions, the Co. Introit of which might justify Elie right of which we speak. Strengthened by their decision, we should have been justified in domititling.the favour of a jury half French and half Eng lish: big, gentle.acii considering the justice which Iles bet n rendered us by the clamber of accusation, (in arytitting us of any plot against the tranquillity of Europe, and virticinarly again,: the French cover •ntli, we have determined to re. nounce our right. e, therefore, abandon ourselves fully, and tt ithout resort e, to the hoitoar and ,00nscience of a jury en tirsly composed of Freinillltell : we du nut ellea make the . Ices( If, uu ling, we think it necessary to make a special declaratb•n : it is to express that at• only renounce the right as Mr as we are personally emiceriml, and to prevent any precedent being drawn from ourease ae titist those °four coin. patrhds alto may hereafter be in the same situation. We can not and till not prejudice their rights. lit faith whereof we hale signed our present declaration. M. Di pia (iiiivocate for the Eitglish).—Will the court be pleased to enter this slechanition ei L tne recortli M. .111:A. a4A of:ate-general.- This declaration is calculated to astonish! To claim in France, fins an offence committed in France, the privileges of a foreigo legislature, is to set at nought the first principles of social order: the lona in which the pret•Aasion is urged does not at all change its nat•ire. We typise the entering this protest or deelaration on the record. M. rturiN (the :ohm:ale of the Englishmen) maintained that no 'French law pruhilAtell the composition of a jury half of Freud n and halt' of .foreigners. It was a question entirely new, which might fairly lie ilisenfiseel, mei-mirth! or might not be decided against the accused; they, hone% er, remmuce the discit-sion, hut in reuutineing it they wish their declaration to b.• recorded. They will one day retort' to their country, and they do not wish tosxpose themselves to the reproach of having sacrificed the right which eminuntly belongs to an English vitt. zen--that of maintaining even in chains, the preroptives of a tree man. M. the ADVOCATE-CENTRAL—To say that they submit to be tried•by the French law, is to sac, that if they did not sub mit, the trial could nut take place. It is this pretrusion I repel for the national. honour and interest. It matters little whether bi your hearts you submit to the FrimeL •legislation ; you are submitted to it by necessity. Crime is a thing pecu- Hark: belonging to local • jurisdiction. The offence was com mitted in Treace-, the prosecution of it.behnigs exclusis•ch• to the French law : English pi isouers,.theretere, shied on our defence! r Acme (moans.) The•Cowrt, after a short deliberation, pronounced the co:tow ing decision . _ "Became evt ry offence committed in a tprrilory in an objert of jorisalirtion, and because the exception denhonlett by the English prisoners, ix nut alleaot ol by •ruy constructioa or the criminal cock of;Vranee, the ('curt locriarcs that :burr is ins ~rounti /the reeoroliag, at the reoineht of the Lughsh pr,- “nterx, Air d miaratiolL mow mask by them, the Court therefore, orders the trial to proceed." 1 Hue Os clerk, read the arrat of the act of accoaatien drawn