The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER: IP whit!h great abuses were said to have prevailed. The high charges ri!teuding foreign osissiona, were likauise pointedly adverted to.—Some riisco.Njoit !sts united relative to the claim of Captain Usher, for the imvoyi.lice of Boonaparte to Elba. That otl•icer had refused to make aot an account of Ilk expellees on that occasion, and hence he had not yet rec .ived any compensation. The resolution was at length agreed tn. _ _ . .• The second reading of the Assessed Tans Bill was further postponed till Monday next.—Adjourned. 1111:8DAY, Arm. INSOEVENT DEBTORS. Seerjeent Beer rose, pursuant to notice, 'to move for leave to bring in a lid' to amend the Insolvent Debtors Act, of last session. The learned Serjeant proceeded to state that his object was twofold.— :st, to make >t delivery of effects on the part of the debtor compulsory ; 'flit, to inflict pebisliment tin It acidulent debtors. This was the More necessary, as there were now in confinement men of large fortunes, Who declined to take the benefit of the Act. So far back as the time of eleorge the Second, there was an Act by which persons who had been imprisoned six months [nicht be discharged, hut that act was limited to erbts under 1001. To the first pert of the Bill he could obtain no op position. onti v r the second bend it should be his object to distilignisli between the criminal and the unfortunate debtor. 4 species t f credit bad beers given by tradesmen that had been extremely prejudicial ; but his object should be, to punish the man who had dishonestly procured . e'redit, and not him who had foolishly given it. 13ut the Act of last session had destroyed a degtee of credit that was indispensably [teem , saey•to cetunierciel purposes, as the debtor could now say to his creditor, if he threateruid any legal proceedings, I will give you a Winn fiord Redesrlale, payable in six months. The part of last year's act telut:vc to impriwiement he should pr.pose to modify in this manner. If a debtor could pay fifteen shillings in the pound, he should be entitled to Ills discharge within the time sp;cified by the Act of last yeia ; but if .he May pay ten shillings, he ahotild suffer an impriponment (by which he meantime residence within certain limits, but confinement sidthin the walls of a prism.) of not Jess than twelve months. If lie could only pay five shilling and under, he should suffer an Imprison suent of tar, years. But as cases night occur, when a debtor wax pre ' vented from misfortune only, from paying, and in which certainly he Ought not not to suffer imprisonment, he intended in the Bill which he proposed to bring in, to leave it open to him to prove to the Court, that his insolvency was the consequence of causes over which lie had no confront. In that case, with the consent of a majority, the creditors 'night discharge the debtor ; as he did mit approve of the judge, how. later respectable, having the power of discharging the debtor at his own discrete/it. One abuse under the Act of last year called kindly for a tiorieity ; it was casual for debtors in the eouotry to procure temoval by huf,e¢s corpus from the country gaols, to those inrhe metropolis, as in most cases daub Creditors would not take this trouble to conic up to Lim don to oppose their diseliaige. He should propose that the Court alioulel have [ower to retuded the prisoner to that county Raul, nearest to which the majoriry of his coeditors resided. The which Seroati . it toncluded by morisat for leave to bring in the Bill whicb4as granted. Mr. Haut Davts, efter stating the advantages resulting to the toeitiry from the emelusion of peace with Amerefa, "That an humble Address be presented to the Prince Regent, return leg bin, thanks tUr haviv been graci"usly pleased to lay before the jltiuse e Copy of the Treaty which had been eoncleded between Greet Mid the United :totes, and assuring his Royal Higenese, that having fully considered the same , the Heuse retie( te'd with the wiliest g.atitu.le and eatislartion on the fresh proofs afforded by this important rraegenient of his Royal Highness's anxious regard for the welfure of the' people f an arrangement which the House trusty , ' aaadd es r a eli,e a rerlect reconciliation, amid a permanent friendship, between countries whiclf Were united by so many ties of common origin anti lii te rest." Mr PONSONBy said, no one more sincerely rejoiced at the re• atotation of peace with America than hinteelf ; but he thought it would be disgracefill to the House to present to the Prince Regent rieti an ethlreits as had been moved--because it was the ditty of the Hence 10 inform hie Royal Highness of time mismanagement of Mi t titers, both in the prosecution and 611(.1w:ion of the Tieaty with Aajtiea, There was no question which had existed heftily, or bad )arisen out of the war, which had tint been left entirely open by the treaty ; and there was no pretension of our Coisenissioners which bad 01161214 y been abandoned. Another Objection lie had to the A411111...4 was the unnecessary delay in roncludime it Had ne gocitltiebi• eon) tamed immediately after the Treaty of Yam., what a %lisle of tiea•stre and of ',hood iil tld have been spared.. He 'vrottld ,ethnic to fray, tont tiso will or . the Orders in Council; bad litottelleti the ream* of America topfards being to great hiaintlap ;la iug awl tr `,cat natal at lOW a: cute)' peutale' APRIL 16, - There was not any European country. not even France, a Nat with which he should think so dailt rims the security and permanent in. terests of the country tltt with America. There were 110 two nations whose interests were so blended, as tho-e of Ete.dand twit America. He trusted that this contest would she • both countries that tin II true interests weie peace, and that neither could injure the other. As s native of this country, when he looked in America he felt a nobler Nen., titnent than jealousy ;—it was a proud circumstance to etlect, that England was the parent of such a country as America and had raised that wild into one of the most civilized countries on the globe. Ame rica was the only free nation besides our OWII in the world ; and En. Maud bad never yet been endangered by free States, but by States of a different character. The Right Hun. G ntleman then 114 ved an amendment, expressive of !egret that a Treaty had nut nears sooner concluded between the two countries, and of a hope thot the peace concluded between the two countries would he lasting and pet manent. Mr. Goulbourn ilefendtd the conduct of Government, und was sup ported by Mr. Marriott, Mr. C. Grant and Load Castlereagh.—Mr. Baring and Sir S. Mackintosh spoke strongly in favour of the amend ment proposed by Mr. Ponsonby. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the Address • -128 Against it Minority fur the Address Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12. The Bills on the table were I. , rwarded without any discussiqn of interest.--Adjourned. TBVRED•Y. APRIT. 13. The SpitAtan. at four o'clock proceeded to count the Members, when only twenty.miLe being present, the House adjourned. FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Si.4l"*: TR4DE. Mr. WILDERFORCE moved to a Copy of the Petition of Messrs. Brodie, Cooke, and Dunbar, then under sentence of transportation, but since pardoned, ter being concerned in the traffic of slaves, and the proceedings thereon. They complain. dof the informality of the proceedings instituted against them, and of having bet n tried before an incompetent tribunal, the beam team of Dr. Thorpe, the Judge of Sierra Leone. Considerable errors havii.g gone forth to the world on this subject, he made this motion for the purpose of • making evident the truth. Mr. H. Am:mit:To:4i opposed the motion, observing, that so con vinced was his Noble Relation (Lord Sidinouth) of the guilt of Messrs. Brodie, Cooke, and Dunbar, that his Lou dship wax on the eve of giviog advice accordingly, when the doubt arose. afterwards established, of the incompetency of the tribunal by which they were tried ; that tibiae was the ground of the pardon. (Wlear.) Lord CASTLEREAGri submitted to the Hon. Mover , that the ob- ' jcct desired had been accomplished, and their could be no objection 10 withdraw tin motion Mr. WiLcEntturicE did not wish pertinaciously to press his mo tion, and the House afterwards agreed to its being withdrawn. OPERrUitES FROM IitIONAPART. Mr. Posisohnv wished to put some questions to a Noble Lord, seeing hint in his place, on a most important subject. It was much rnmomed, and was very strongly believed, that Ministers had re cently received from the Government, at present existing iu France, some overtures os communications. He ished to know whether .tick were the fact, and secondly, what has b. et done in cowl quence? It had been said, he understood in another place, that such overtures, or whatever this communieutions might be, had been sent to Vienna. If lie were answered in the affirmative on these points— that spelt overtures had In en received, and that they had been sent to Vi cilia. lie slion;cl then be glad to know when the Noble Lord of pOoted to receive intelligence touching 'etch COIIIIIIIIIIICMIODA kW; Viem N. Lord CAsTLEnEAGII replied, till, it could not he expected of him to enter into any exptanation of the communications tlidt bad been received from Fiance. (Hear.) Out shot such comiumnicatiors bid beer) received he was ready to admit. On rei.eiving them his Majesty's Ministers had deemed it advisrablc to lomat(' them to Vienna imoo•diately ; but at was not in his power to leil the Right Gewlernen when •my answer might be Cxpeett . d. Pos4otvAY enquired knrsi the communicatipa had been re ceived f‘oon Frfflice. Lord C41111.4it bAkif tpawerall, three days Sillee l pod that it wet reterardod to yiv,ues steMOietelys