The National Register. — London, England, 1822-07-07 00:00:00

I ‘2lO - . :Vinvertal Vatitanitnt. Lotins. MONDAY, JULY I. The royal assent was given by couniamaion to the arm r and navy pension bill. the Edinburgh mid Lanark Sheriff's Depute Bell, and several private bill,. Tire commissioners were tile Lend Chaneellor, the Earl of alialle,bury, and the Marquie of Wincheeter. The Scotch Distilleries Bill, and the Wesunineter Improve ment Bill, went through Committees. :MARRIAGE ACT. The Marquis of CA MDF N said, he had to present a petition against the alartiage Act Amendment Bill from a lady extteniely vespeetable. It would appear that she went with her husband to be man ied, alter he had obtained a licence by a false reptesenta tiou. A discovery was made by her relate its betbre cohabitation, and the marriage laud hitherto been considered invalid. On read ing the retrospective chime: in the bill, doubts had arisen upon the invalidity tit melt' itauriage, and therefore the lady was desitous of statute; bet CAM: in the hope that it might induce the House to sender nugatory her :aid marriage, lather than make it valid. The petition being read, purported to be the petition of Charlotte Anne Hayward, widow, melding in the town of Bre con, in Wales. The petitioner stated, that she was to unthrtu• rate as to become the dupe ot one Josiah Ctutelmley, ot Aberga acuity, who prevailed on her to b: married on the ad of alareli laa without the consent of her mother. By a false allegation he obtained the license, and a few hours after the marriage the rutionet was seen by her Mother, who restored her to her mother. rue tenet then pursued 'liaisons to annul the marriage in the Arches Court, aid no divorce or thesolution of marriage Mel yet tahen piece. The petitioner petitioned agamma the bill haute the Room ' : because , if it passed, her marriage with the said Joseph Cruteliley would be affirmed. Lord ELLEN 1101101.1li II said, the petition Shoved the pro priety of the wools introduced to the bill, which clearly excluded the ease they had just heard. 'flits young lady having never tored with the person to whom she was married, waswithin the exec:at:on. The Howe would sea the policy of the prospective Blau e, because in this very ea e, had the Ilia been in puree, the Lima aught have been puniehed tar swearing falsely, by tranepor• tution for lite. %Vint reameet to the validity of the inxitiage of tne young lady, there could be nu doubt the decision %wind be he her lavuor. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not wish to snake any ob jectiori to the petition, but the noble and learned Lord expressed his Intention to make a few observations on the case to-morrow, at the third reading of the bill. He was desirous of heating from the noble Lord why the regulation with respect to license, was to take place in September, and the regulation with respect to banns when this bill passed: There was also a departure twill the 2tith of George D. which must tnielead the clergy. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH said, the noble and learned Lord alluded to trifles which could be amended. The LORD CHANCELLOR then observed, that he was sure tile noble Lords who supported the bill would not give their assent if they understood it. The Earl ot LAUDERDALE said, there was ao men more able to Miura' Milers than the noble and learned Lord, and if there were any who did net understand the Bill. perhaps the made and learned Lord would enlighten the individual. laird ELLEN BOROUGH—" I think I understand the bill ; but it the clauses ot the noble and learned Lord are added, I should nut understand it. 1 have not been so fortunate as to ult. elerstand the clauses, nor have 1 hound one individual who does. The LORD CILIA CELLOR..—a• !have not an idea that the Lord knows enough of law to understand it." Lord ELLEN BellitOUta The Marriage Act ought to be soclear that every one can understand it." The LORD CHANCELLOR—•• 1 mean to say, this act of Parliament will lie considered inconsistent by lawyers, and it is tube presumed they will not know whet to rid with itt." cooveeeauou then eueleel, and the petition was laid On the table. hit J. GRAHAM and others, front the Commons, brought up the Metropolis Police Bill, the Irish Exchequer Bill, and the Alidelleacx Coon iy Rate. Bill, which were read the Met time. 04i the motion ot the Earl of W EST NIORLAND, in the alemence of the Earl of Liverpool, anti his Majesty's ministers, the committee on the corn lull was postponed to Wodutiaday.— Adjourned. TUESDAY, .I.'LY 2. Two hills ware brought up from the Commons. The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a petition from a person named Prier!, complat ll oig of a deafest of justice, in con bequenee of irregular pith:ceding , : against lain in one of the courts of pence in Semiarid. The petition was referred la the erred committee. STATE 01: TUE Coe ark Y.—Earl GREY presented a petition from ushers and occupiers of laud in Yorkshire, complaining SW agricultural distress. The noble Earl took the opportunity ta abate, that lie some time ago declared his intention to bring toward a motion on the state of the country, with a view to du all ill his power for a Luger reduction of la-•.ation. lie had postponed abet meth 111 l under the expectation that a illeabille in the enter (louse of Parliament would reduce taxation, but (list tae,iblite had certainly deceived his expectations. It lie alien -11011, d his intention of bringing forward the motion, it was not because time measure to which he alluded was effective, our that lie was satielied with the amount of redaction of taxes, but Simply because lie despaired of being able to do any good by opposition. Ile should let things take their course, hoping ohm y might not lead to tranelar of the landed property into other hands, in which eveut the couetitution must culler. The polite Eel concluded his observations by presenting a second petition limo the suffering aviculturists iu the neighbourhood ot %Verana The Lid of LIVERPOOL said, he should he ready to meet tine noble Earl on the eutacet of general reduction in taxes IL;o:uever it came fairly itenne the House. lie was sure nu saran could coot:6llo , de a change of property in the country with more are:tannin linuse if, but be saw no prospect of such a 'result. The noble E erl then adverted to the expected discus• sloe on the Coru Bill, and expressed a wish to know, as he was sot in his place Yeeterdsy, whether it really was the desire of the House to ;to into a committee on the etihjeut to-morrow ? 'late Earl of LAUDERDALE said, it would Ire wore wave pieta et ;Ire diemoteiou were fixed for Friday. The Earl of LIVERPOOL then withdrew the notice for the committee ou the Bill to-morrow, and fixed it for Friday. MARRIAGL ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord STOWELL presented a petition feoin Mr. Pritchard, tae ot the Proctor. of Doctors' limitations, who applied ill be half of a mason Rained F, Blythe, whose bttit for nullity of marriage, in the Court of Arches, he was conducting. The petition stated the particulars of a martiage illeeally contracted b'twovit Mr. Blithe and r peretat who eloped with him from Part, to Dover, where the inerriaee was holionnieed. The pe nuoner peeved that the Lards wealth not allow the Marriage Act Ameudnient Btl, then before the Howie, to pass into a taw, iteaurie it would deprive; the said A. F. Blethe of his rights. The Earl of LAUDERDALE said lie had a petition also (sons the Praetor of the holy, static. , that the lietime for the w arm a g e w e s oto gifted he a rats, kio, sentatlol3, auJ pedlar, the ileseec would out hetet'. to Lir petiUtia. f - - -. 1.• - s • . NO • ' , . THE NATIONAL REGISTER ' . ••• . After a few observations frein the Lord Chancellor, both pe titions were withdrawn as irregular. The House then proceeded to the order of the dly, for the third reeding of the Marriage Act Amenducut Bill. Lord STOW EL objected to the retrospective clause. The noble and learned Lord said, as the bill stood, minors had nothing to do but enter the church and solemnize matrimony, and then they were united for ever against their (tepidness and interest, and the consent of parents and guardians. in such improper marriages, what could be expected but elopement on tile part of the woman, and desertion on the part of the men.— The marriage act had been concocted in evil, and looked upon with horror, but they had overlooked the WI% antagea which Lad been derived. Many families had been restored to hap ;Mess by the elfeet of that law. The miseries introduced to families by imprudent marriages was one of the greatest evils in society. He concluded by moving to omit the clause. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH said, alter the bill had been enter tain.,: thirteen days by the (louse, he did not expect to hear a funeral oration over it. The noble and learned Lord's argument WAS contradictory, and founded upon the belief that marriages wore made fur the happiness Moaretita and guariltaaa, not the young persons themselves. Ile was not surprised the noble and learned Lord should urge that line of urguinent as one suited to his views and situation in society ; but others like himself, who were more in life dud gaity• than the noble and learned bold, certainly saw the question in a very dilferent point of view. He certainly was able to state, that the right rev. Prelate's had satietioned the principle, that marriages once solemnized, could not be dissolved; and if that was admitted, the retrospective clause followed as the necessary consequence. The LORD CHANCELLOR said In wished to understand on what authority the noble and learned Lord quoted the opinion of the right rev. Prelates, and therefore should ask them .he question whether because it had happened that marrire;es had beeu solemnized under the sanction of the purative fatit,r, those marriages were valid in the eye of the church? 'f he noble and learned Lord held that no marriages ought to be valid with out the consent of the lawful father, where the patties knew the father woe living. The ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY said, in no iu static • had she Bishops held that inarriaae under the consent of the putative father was valid, where the consent of the reel father was known to be withheld. The LORD CHANCELLOR could not suppose the noble lord wished to make all the marriages since 17a3 valid. He could tell tile noble lord, whose heart lie believed to be good, that in twelvemonths after the Mill befurc the House passed in its then shape,his Incrrt wild be torn with auguiali, occasioned by the distress of families. Lord ELLENBOItJCCII said the Right Reverend Pre lates held their doctrine upon mends. They held that Inllf riage once solemnized ought not not to be set aside. in sup port of that doctrine he might cite these winds Those whom Gnd bath joined let no man put asunder." After considerable discussion, the Lill was read the third time and passed.—Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. The Brighton Harbour Chain Bill—the Metropolis Police Bill --and the Roasted Corn Bill, were read the third ume and passed. The Irish land Revenue Bill was rout the second time. The Irish Excliequei Offices Bill went through a committee: — The Welch Cuts Bill also went through a committee. The House then adjourned. THURSDAY, JULY 4. A person from the St. Nicholas B. .y Company presented the annual anCllnlit of their expenditure, male tut to June, 1822. The Welch Coal Regulation Bill, and the Exchequer Intim in Ireland Bill, were read the third time. The Irish Laud Re venue Bill was read the second time. Lord ERSKINE presented a petition from the owners and occupiers ofland in Northumberland ; also petitions front Essex, Southampton, andleornwall, against the Corn Importation Bill,—The above were lead and laid on the table. The Earl of LAUDERDAI.E gave notice, that on Tuesday next lie should move the second Of time Scotch Juries Bill. A message from the Commons btought up the Five per Cent. Contracts Bill, which was re-ad the first time. tiotrrx AMERICAN TRADE•—'TIC Marquis of LANS DOWNE said, in CiSe a noble Earl (Liverdottl) had been in hie place, he should have put a question to him respecting the poli tical and commercial relations subsisting between this country and the Independent States of South Amelia. As the noble Earl was :thread, he should reserve what he had to say until to tuurtow. The House then adjourned. eeitats . , ri - tv S. The royal assent was given by commission to the Roasted Grain Bill, Irish Window Tax, Scotch Distilleries, Metropolis Police, Irish Exchequer °dices, Welch Coals, and two local bills. the Kilmuinhatit Hospital, and Brighton Harbour Bill. —The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Bathurst, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Petitions, complaining of agricultural distress, were presented from owners and occupiers of Laid in Suffolk—Oxibrd—city of B r i sto l_it e reforet—Warwickshire—the Wolds in the county of York—Soniereet--York—llettford—Denbigh,—Gloucester, and other places. bold DUNDAS presented a petition from a numerous body of Dissenters, complaining of hardship wider the existing manage service. The above petitions were laid on the table. A person from the Secretary of State's Office pre anted an ac count of the population of Great Br it a in in 1121, pursuant to the Ist of George 1 V.—Laid on the table. CORN WILL. Earl BATHURST rose on the order of the day for the second reading of the Corn Bill, and observed, that the In-avoidable absence of a noble Earl (Liverpool) had induced him to postpone the discussion on this bill, but having recently un'erstood that severed noble Londe were waiting in town to give their opinions on tic innoute, lie considered it better to proceed forthwith. In opening to tic House the ptovisions of the Bill, it would not be neceaaary to occupy much of their Lotelehips' time. lie should out discuss the tause of agricultural distress. The bill proposed an alteration in the old Cum Bill. By that Act the importation Mall wheat was prohibited until the price rose to eighty shillings. Thew was then unlimited importation. and the warehouses were filled with foreign grain. So soon as the ports closed the foreign grain in warehouses was brought into the market, and the glut sat, as it were, like the night mare on die English grower. 'file bill before the House provided a remedy. The agriculturists would derive benefit, and security from the scale of protecting duties;. The noble Earl stated all the objects of the bill, and concluded by moving the second reading. Lord ERSKINE said, this bill, for laying a protecting duty, was it repeal of the bill brought in by the agricultutists them selves for their relief. Daring the war the agriculturists derived great advantage from their 'malice. When peace came a change took place. Distress was general, and then CnnlC the bill which the noble Lord cidlal a night mare. The government had many difficulties to encounter tit the time they pained the Corn Bill ; but he could riot avoid saying, it was dr: duty of governments to provide manures not for the interest of any one Chas of the po pulation, but for the galena advantage of die whole community. Corn might be brought from the Continent itt 3 la. or 3:s. and how, lie might ask, would they expect to benefit the growers in this country by the piopened puNtcuag duties ? FXeLs•tve tax a:Out w kark,hurel danital tins farmer a namineraung price. If -U taxation was reduced, a remunerating price might be procured. The fanner had to pay tithes upon the land brought to perfection by . his own capital. He had to pay nsseeeed tames for roads and brolges over which he travelled, and even for the light of !leaven. If this state of things continued the poorer lands would be thrown nut of cultivation. The farmers did not ask protecting duties, but a remunerating price. Before they proceeded with a law like this, they might to equalize the public burdens. Ina bill brought into the other House, by Mr. S. Bourne, there was a statement that Parliament did did not mean to depart from the act of Eliaa beth, which provides fur the sustentation of the poor. No man desired to see the poor well supplied with provisions more thou himself, but what were they doing by the bill? They were let ting in foreign corn to the market at 503. lit would not be more with the protecting duty), when the English landholder could not raise his corn wider 110 s. They were told by Government those who supported the bill, that it was fur the good of the agriculturists. The remedy could not cure, but it would increase the illness of the party. The promoters of the bill might be compared to a bad physician. who, mistaking his patient case, put him into a shower bath. The bill, which he considered the shower bath, did not contain a moderate WI of water, but a deluge ; a torrent bearing down every thing like a whisp of straw in a Bowing canal. The first thing to be done was to equalize the public burthens. Utitess the agriculturist was relieved front the weight of taxation. it would be in vain to look for remunera ting prices for his commodity. No man looked with more re.peet to the members of the House of o.lllllllollti than he did, ye: he could not help observing, that they frequently appeared to forget themselves. Private interest seemed to be preferred to public good; and he might say, in the languag • of Hamlet, 6 ` There are more things passing In heaven and Earth—than Are tin:aortal of in our philosophy." The landholder must be supported in common with other classes of the community • and the noble Lord was most desirous to pro mote the general interest by liberal policy and free trade. bill appeared so objectionable, that lie should conclude by moving that it be read a second time this day three months. The amend went having been put, Lord 1J ACHE said he had long been of opinion that nothing could be done at present to Athol effectual relief to the distressts, and he might say the destruction of agriculture, and he should be happy to induce the House to 011011 , MIL the lull, at least tor the present session. A discussion then ensued between the Lords most interested in the question, and the amendment having been negatived, the bill was read the second time. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY. :VET I. Mr. Qe Rant, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, sum• mound the House to attend iu the blouse of Peers, to hear the royal assent given, by commission to sundry bills.—(See Lords.) The Highgate Chapel Bill was read a first time. and ordered to he read a second time on Friday. The County Rate Bill was read a third time and pas.sed. SALT TAX.—Mr. LUSHINGTON brought in the Salt Tax Repeal Bill. Mr. CU MEN gave notice, that lie should oppose the second reading, or 011 the question that the Bill be committed, when he should move that the dusution of the bill be limited to January. IS2'2. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that as the question might be on the committee. lie should move the second reading to morrow. Head a lost time ,and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Tile BttWt cIIAM Eiscrios.—Mr. HOBIIOUSE pre sented a petition from Charles Maddox, coulined in Warwick castle. He was one of the persons who hail been found guilty of being concerned in the election of a.. Legislatorial Attorney ;" and he had received heavier sentences thou any other of the defendants. Edmonds had nine months ; Woollen 12 months ; and Maddox, this petitioner, IS months ; and he bad under stood that the reason of this ditkrence was, not that he was deemed more guilty than the other parties, lint in consequence of the mode in which lie had conducted his defence. Against such mode of proceeding the House ought to interfere. The petitioner prayed the !louse to address Isis Majesty to relieve from prison all reformers now confined ; also to remunerate then. out of the produce of some of the siuteures, for the pros ceediugs they had endured. The petition was read, and ordered to be printed, after Mr. Twins had denied that the Judges punished in consequence of the mode in which defences were conducted. Mr. DAWSON moved the thinl reading of the Police Bill of the metropolis. Head accordingly and passed. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the second reading of the Sum) , New Roads' Bill. Alderman WOOD enquired whether the bill was to be res. (erred to a committee above stairs? Sir J. GRAHAM answered in the Affirmative. Bill read • second time, and ordered to be committed. 111./NIIIIENT IN D/11%1:ill:a 11.—Lord BINNING presented a petition from Edinburgh, praying, for a grant from the sum set apart fur the building of new churches, towards bedding the monument in Edinburgh, to commemorate the victories of the late war, which was to he c onverted into a place of worship, where there were to be many free seats. Sir W. DE CRESI'ICNY presented a petition from stage coach proprietors of Camberwell, praying to be heard by Counsel against a bill afro:ling theta now before the House. — Read and ordered to Le printed. WAYS AND MEANS—THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER alcoved, ticd the House go into a committee of ways and means —Ag,reed tn. The CHANCELIAM of the EXCHEQUER, in the commit • tee, rose to bring forward his statement of the finances, gem - rally, termed •• The Budget." lle said lie had some apology to make for br'nging forward his general statement helure ell the supplies had been voted ; it had generally been consitli rid that those supplies ought to be first voted. Why the delay li!ol been, he would not stop to inquire ; lot it wool(' lie essential Brat lie should make his statem ents now, amid that certain pre visions should be- made on account of the sinking fond, whic he h w e re voted from July to July. A q uarter would be lust, if t votes were not now proposed. He would make some reference to the amounts already voted. For the army there had been granted 7,700,0001.; for the nary 5,100,0001.; four r the ord nance 1,200,0901. There had been granted f Ireland 100,000 1 . fur particular services. amount that hail beers voted was shout 15,000,0001. there T emained to be rots d about 3,000,0001. the whole amount would be 17,800,0001. however, for the services of the year. There was a grant of 2 . 90,000 1 . which lie eliosild have to ask fur, to snake up the sulking ofnd. The out-pensioners fell on the public, in consequence of the hospital having decided against certain payments ; and that hail compelled him to resort to miwey that might have been ipplied to other purposes. Adding this and other sum. , which were in the nature of debt, Sic. the gross ainount would hi. 21,196,14ti1. lie then gate the following ritearitulation r"