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JULY 7. FIUME BMX X G. The ATTOIINEV-C EN Ell At moved for Imre to bring in a Bill to repeal the precut Act relative to Ow offence of Fraitie-heaking, and to ilitroditee other provisions in lieu tlivrcol. Mr. Aatnt nottur thouteit the noose had rot been fairly treated by his Nlkiesty's Mini-Avra this measure shuisld have beer huts duced t.t the same time as the Bill for the Suspensiint of the 11.:L.:, corpus Art; Gentlemen might then have choien which ot ti.e two they thought best calculated to restore the peace the countre ; but instead of doing this, they by a strong reprocnitation to the ilonie, fprocure the Suspension of Habeas Corpus, and inunediateiy being orth a second restrictive ineanire placing thelivus and liberties of tire subject completely a ithin their coo:with 11. Anlvi au: oer begged leave to state, that early in the Sea sin he had stated the probability of his Maie,tr's Government be ing obliged to submit some local remilly to part of the public g iev a::ca of the time!. Lea: e was given to bring in a Dill, which was rend a first time. A ate-suits from the I.ords announced their reoient is the Bill for tran..ferring the Irish Stock to l'aglish, and other private Bills. Sir F. liti:lnmer presented a petition from the parishes of St. l'star;.• and St. Luke. Chdsea, for shortening the duration of Paella ulent, and abolishing the abuses usual in elections.—Laid on theta. ble, gild ordered to be printed. Me. V. Fit znnn.st-D morel for leave to bring in a Bill to pro vide Lunatic Asyltur.s in !rehire., pursnant to the Report ofa (inn. mittee appointed to inveitig-ate the subject. Report recommend ed the establishment of DiArict Asylums in the different counties of Ireland. as the:eat present existed none except in the cities of Dublin and Cork. Mr. ItAnt•;r. asked, at whose expense these Asylums were to be Mr. Finzu said, that in the pment instance the expense was cnnsiderably inerc.o:ed, from the circumAtance of these tritor'u. nate persons being sent to these principal cities from all parts of the country. It vas now intemied to distribute them, so that curb eatery should support its mm—though, in the first instance. there w. uhl perhaps be granted a sum of means by Parliament towards the erectidn of the Asylum, as in the pri.aerit state of thing: that tleie caiinuy we. ill able V) bear any inercan of expense. Lea:.: was ti.en given to bring in the Bill. Inf.:ATM:MT OF wrATE TRIMMERS Mr. 137.NN1.TT, seeing a Right Honourable. Gentleman (Mr. 11. .Ithlington) in his place wished to receive from hen an explanatien, teurhiag the allegations contained in the pe tition of a per-nit of the name of Evans now confined in lorsereougi r•latie Ginal. Mr. 11. Altman - tits said, he was ready to give the ex planation retpsireil, relat ive to varioLs complaints con tained in the me bit of Mr. Evans, n Lirb had been pre sewed to the Heine nit Friday last, by the Ilocourable Rem in who had just sat down. Vht, is the petition was in troduced, he stated his titrer disbelief of most of the rilliga tians cotitillill.ll in it. Sums of than he knew were fitise— and very few of them, lie helieved, had any degree of fuun dation w itatever. 'fit it part of the petition, especially he was convinced nag untrue, whieli alledged that o Secretary of State had been guilty of so gross an ahnse of pewee, as to prevent the rept esentatittee of a prisoner. which he intended to be laid regularly before Ps 'limited, from fading their way into that I louse. He was ratite sure, that, since Easter, no petition had been sent to the See - teary of States Otiice, by Mi. luaus — for, from that time up to the present, e% ety letter sent to the office bid been opened by hire. Mr. Evans, on or about the 21st of February last, did semi n petition, by the hauls of Mr. Adkins called the gaoler of the Coltlaath fields prison, to the Other. Tile very next morning, It hell it was going to be sent to the Mere her for Westminster (Sir F. llordett), the gaoler arrived isn't a special request that it should not be eiven to that I lonourable Bat inlet, but that it should be handed over to Mr. Harmer, the Solicitor of Mr. Evans. This request was complied with, and Mr. Adkins called on Me. Harmer to let Iffitt know that lie might get the petition at the Secretary of State's Office, Wier pleased. lie did not send for it—but the next day Sir N. Conant trans mitted it to Mr. Harmer—and be had in his possessiuti that it ntlemetes note, dated the 'Ltd of February, acknowledging the receipt of tinst petition. I)n Saturday last he had con sulted the votes of the House, and its found that this very petitiunhallbeenpresented by an Honourable Gentleman (Mr. 'Sennett) on the 27th of Vebruaty. This being the case, lie felt consitleiiiiilti surprise, if the Honourable Member re collected the cite stance, tint he could sit in his place, and hear without notice, the ohser% atioas that had becu unjustly directed 4.43iiisi the secretary of State. As to the statement that Mr. E.stns o at put hi is MIS, it was undoubtedly true. But the gaoler declared that Lid> had always been the practice in I larsenee.ger lane gaol. Ile had inquired of his predecessor, who informed 14111 that it %vas CliSiomary to put persons so charged in single irons. ;Mr Es ;ins had stated that lie was confined in e dungeon. 'The dimensions of the room were as follow :—Length, g:, tied- liteadth, IS feet—height II feet. Each routs hail tyre windows, which the prisoner might open when be pleased ; there was abet a lire place, and a person attended to li4llt the tire, if item scary. The room in which the chit r Evitus was confined, commanded a beautiful view of the Surrey hills—(.t lough}—the room iu which the younger Evans was imprismied, was precisely the same di mensions, and contained the state conveniences which were to be found in his father's tip:witness,. it was alledged that the state prisoners could take no exercise. But what wa s time fate —They euald walk in a spacious arcade, which was fifty-five feet long, and which had seventeen w indows. Mr. Deese: said, that undoubtedly a petition from Mr. l'xects was presented by him, on the 27th of February—but h.! did not know at the time, nor was lie ;Mare at present, thnt it was the iden;ical petition that had been sent iruw aoililhath fields to the Itimle-office. 'fie petition, like the elle which lie presented on Friday last. was put into lls hands iii the lobby of that Maisie It'ith respect to the other puts tit' the case, it appeared to hint, that alinest all the complaints made he mfr. Evans were effinitted, either by the silt nee of the Rigid 'lieu. Gentleman, or by his ex; Tess words. Ile would state the allegations, and he could not help thinking that the Messrs. Evans's had been very hardly treated. They were first sent to Celtlhath field's prison, Where Mr. Es ails• jen. was utilized to sit vp with a common felon ; and his Me flier was placed in the hospital with several felons. Ott the lath of A ptil, lie (Mr. Bennett) went to liorsemonger-lane, prison—bet he veldt" not see the rules directing the mode in which State prisoners %vele to be treated. lie again event l'lrre a few days since, and he requested to see the arcade in which the prisoners were allowed to walk. One would sup. pose, foam the tritimpliaat manner in which it had been men. toted, that the arcade was something like the piazza, vrat-gat 'lvo. lie, however, went talon:tit it, and it was nothing but a stone passage, three or four feet broad—just spacious enough to Inc the communicating passage between the cells where the felons sleep. Over each cell there was an ir:ai gritting dint looked into the passage—and this was the whole histbry of the arcade. With respect to irons, thorn ielit lion. Gentleman must know, that it %vas contrary to taw, Ili f--tier n man in this way, unless a ease of absolute necessity % etled for it. :vine years aca, Lozil Chancellor Iting TIIII NATIONT4kL nromrr,n, p:•eued lair opinion decidedly ou Ilse of su.is.e before is man 5144 tried. A gaoler told Hie Lordship that he could not keep retools' prisoner, without irons. The Chan cellar, however, !sold, on Ind no right to pot irons on him. lie num he routi.lt red innocent till he it proved godly. It' you wont to prevent an vsraise, you must raise )ussr rtally higher." llasitxm expressed timself ilissatisfu Id with the ex planation of the Hight Him. Centlernati--nod declared his intention of bringing forward the motion, of which lie bail given entire. Mr. It AnnitYOrtx said, the gaoler informed him that no description of seveiity was exercised towards those indivi. duals, beyond what lie had always been given to no:del - stand, was esimily adopted in the•prison. Ilttocim suit, he was bound to believe almost all the allegations cantultir d in the prtiti 1111 l and he was ex treniciy glad, rhat his Ilun. Friend (Mr. Barham) intended to bt lug ferwaid 1/1,1 motion—became they must all feel that the House was bound to perform one of its most important duties, in taking care that no tinilint severity should be letlieted by any persons on those individuals. As to the arcade it was is inure rearkery—it was a gross and wilful deception tor the part of the person who cle-c Mier; it. Sir E. IIsiYLMLi moved—` • That there be laid heron! the House a return from like Universities and other puLlic bo dies, stating whirl) of the bunks claimed under the Copyright Act of ilio:,tilt of the ere placed in timer :iltrartes, ur how thvy are ()thaw i-e ef."—Agered to. The w atelinink ors' petition, ea., on the motion of Mr. I', Moons ordered to be referred to a Secret Cotnivilter. Thu Irish Election Bill, on the motion of Sir 11. PA 11 N ETA, was, wrier a tow Vet Lia alneLd.llVl..th redid the third time and passcd. BANE 101[Fra. The Cnastect.r.nn of the Exrti velum wive() for leave to briar; in a Bill, of which it VI 3a his intention to have riven some pre.thtura eiiplatmlion last night, were it not for the tin. happy accident that then took play? (alladiwe to lir. Poisson by's Wormed im:ispositioa), au occident which they most all lament, and which he feared would deprive them for some lime, at least, of the eminent services of one of the most np. right, honourable, anal respectable Walla:re who admin.,' that lions..—[This just Whine to Mr. Ponsonby was teCtiV ed with loud cries of hear, for all sides of the lionse.J—He proposed to fix the calling in of Bank tokens fin the 2.3 th of next 514relt, at the some time rendering the lank liable to pay the nominal ea!,ie At any snlisetpo of time, though there would be a peo.ll;y opon any attempt to press them into cir culation, in the &one nianniir as there was in the stoppage of the load tokens of the Bank of Eugland, from the la th of Morel' next. Mr. BARING IV'Shed to knew when the new gold coinage would be ready for circulation, and whether the old guineas were still to remain in Circulation. The Cu Neci.t.un of the Excuroogn said, the old guineas were still to be current use legal tender, if they were of the proper weight of id.r t. 8 grv. Leave %rah given to bring in the Bill. Mr. Baca; DEN brought up the It. port of the Committee of Supply, chick was read and agreed• to, !WILDING OF rmusn animas. Mr. POIITMAN risked whether it was the intention of the Chancellor of the Y....chequer to press, in the present Session, the Bill fur encouraging individm Is ty build Churches and Chaels? The CrtANCELLOtt of the IL:Mir:Qt.:ER replied, that it cer tainly was his intention. Mr. l'utermsN saw many objections to the Bill, as it mast generate discontent and dissentious in parishes. He had no objection to a Bill fur enlarging parish churches, but as fur the present ine.omic he shAild culainly oppose it. The CI:Am:IA.I.mI of the Excis Ent. kit vehreivrd it of much more advantage to 'woe several churches !mils thati to increase existing ones to a size inconsistent with the powers of she human %Mee. :oh:net Woon defended the Seijemit Osshow thought the period of the Session too late for undertaking sn important a nu matte. After n fiat ItEliS from the CIiA%CLI.I.OR of the EXClir citault, the Bill was ordered to be committed. The Mai riage Mims Bill went through a Committee, the Report was Lit - ought up, and ordered to be taken into further consideration this cloy three weeks, Sir J. HlyPEsl.E.lf illoyett .f9r leave to bring in a Bill to secure to lobumeis iu rollieries the Nyntent Cf tht.ir tsaio..b ill the lawful coin of the realtu.—Ordei ed.—Adjuul ucd. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. Mr. M oat: Obtained leave to Min. , in Rills for the exicouragt.m.r.t of Saying Banks in England and lrjand, the fanner oze - 11‘7,rig been thrown out by the I .ords. The Iridi Treasury Bills 11111, the E7,chequer Bills Bill, the Orange Imp4rtation Bill, the Irish Cambric l,.iportation Bill, were :severally wail a third time and patl.eil, The IM . ,ale Winesduty Bill was read • second time. General HART presented a petition from the county of Donncgzil, compluihing of the severity tit she /tevenua Laws.—Laid oa the ta— ble. and ordered to be printed. 'file Greenwich Hospital prizc.monry Bill was read a record time. Mr. H. NI ART' Y. rose to submit his motion for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the °lnce of Deputy Reniembranzer of the Court of Exchequer. lie stated, that the sums belonging to suitors in that Court amounted to soo,moL and were. in the hands of an individual who gave no security whatever. Of tl:ese funds Ga,nool. had been vested in Exchequer Bills. and 15,rn01. had been lent on mortgage, for the private emolument of this officer. I Its object then 1,111, to obtain the saute security for the property of suitors in this Court as was enjoyed in the Court of Chancery. 'lle fund• of the Court of Chancery at present amounted to 55,009.6001. but they were most amply secured. Ile appreliendcil, that if the present °filter was to hold an appointment under the Bill he had to propose, it should 1.r.! as one of the .fasters, and not as Deputy Itemembraneer. He should propo .c to create two Masters and a It.:.eciyer General, to execute the duties of the office. en 11,•..e responsibility and character the utmost satisfaction should be expeted. The Cii.x.xect.t.on of the F.xettr.utry • confidently truitcil to the talents and ability of the Learned f ientleinan to frame this itiLl in a nianner most convenient to the Cyan and advantageous to the Ihc motion was agreed to. and the Bill brought in. AV:ITRIAN Mr. Ilaststvastrx said. he had ascertained that the amount of the loans of this country to .tustria was 19,42:in.n001.. lle wished to know whether any trtex:urui had been taken ip obtain a reply went of any part 01 it. Lotd C.V T 1.114 EAGII replittl, that the difficulties of the Austrian Government in ni-ing 'hooey were well know:). %nil he was not piti pared to .ay when oily par ot the lon% Was likely to be liquidated. it n o t mitAst pt.t N qte-stiun to I.ortl (a...dere:l4h as to the au thenticity of a document . I.4a.ive to the Tv.idenve of I .neien 1111 MA. parte, signed by five :tvecrs ef this uut du; do wci CC ac: be clotuAtii Ali Ntr. T r tSar ort'er nt* the day fns ,Urt! lITOCk:ekLI:gS on the Bill to prevent the er.lployment elin,Li rt7 in suet-ping chiinnies be di,cliarged. lie %hil te d t h e stikee: •1 • • demo a lu.o consideration. when there wax likely w be tt :iert”r • - alive niernbeni. and he thould therefore bn:ig it .. :LILL L.. next Session. WI. Ell VNS'S PETITION. Mr. BANXIIAM rose to bring forward hi% motion rah Ity!, subject ; and its doing this, he begged to a.l hostile feeling towards the Noble Lord at the Head of the Home Department. Indeed, he could not be accused o f ~,,,I, feeling, for as long as he COOsitieleil his Majcnty's Alinistce were pl tinerl npon by faction he hurl 2i vele them an/1;1011 anti he %timid have continued to snpatitt then, if lie had sryu them still pressed ; hue he now considered that the litierte of the subject w as nujosliv a n d Ofilleco•surey ati ar t .c d ; uni t he now lilt hi , sotell called on to stand forwai it an.l rai,c his voice ill ita defence. He event 11111 tot get, a Noble.; Loud. in is former distorsion, eaill, if air t have shively or revolution he would :Wine:ire revolution, with What 4 rsb:doi,iitit:inbr be ro p , i vr to acieu line of n h i , t e n e c i i i l t was ono0( 7. , , rend for atoll avow it tit sentiment • Thee fortonrable Gentlemen then proct etled to r ~,,, nt on the rut mores. whielellatLia‘ t adopted towards those persons at pre:.ent cenfueil tinder thi? operations of the Habeas !;(sepias Sospei;At.n 'Act ; blamed, in strong terms, that sy :item of .01ii itr y run c iunv , t which gin as adopted, an r.' ants a them, Ike e L ti „ did. 11, : t ibis f,„„l,, er highly illegal And ituirstifiatile.--The %ideals etmuincil under the powt-r of Ow !:nspeo.ivt, Ac, were, not comint it for htinislantilt hut preennti .n. If thee ‘‘. ry tots ed coot - omit for their repentance nod punio,7l :/ - lit it r,y tress injustice ; and it* only thr precantinn, Uv n any nom saes ~veri:3 . ' , radioed toward, thtui was tiojitsritha ) ;,.. hail hoard it said, that this reed ity might be metal, a* %timid 0, , e rate to int' late the good NA eel; us the bad ; 404 It feared this would operate more to the Minty than to the a.i. vatine.:e of the public. 'f he I fonourillilt• .hinter then pin. ecesled to commt lit on iMr. Evans's pi Mimi, and said th e 3115 n% tr he Lad received from the night Honourable Gratis. man was by no means satisfactory to him. He had how it happened that the man was confined iu iron.. I_i., answer %vas, th.it it st a' the practice of the prison. 'then ha- Olialit not to hat C lit PO welt 10 Ihat prison . It wan said th.tt inerboo4 l'olllllliltCli for It len% were pit in irons, and there. fore, that it w as no stretch of seed ity to hot a person eons.' mitted for High Trrieon, a crime of AO 11111 eh Kiva r m: , ¢- iiilntic, in manacles. tint geo;:cmcn did not Cou , idtrtine differ. dire under which the petitioner and a person Charged with felony were committed. The titan communed fur felony was cotninitted for trial after a fall investigation; whilst the pc.. titioner was committed tinder the %%anent of a Secretary rf State without any such investigation. lie should not mai, 6 . any observations on the felon'S tare and felon's bud oNuJod to by the petitioner; lint be coedit nut avoid advei um! 'ti the circumstance of depriving this unfortunate man of his flute this he considered an a refinement of dimity. It was said, the hcrsiillN cuufilad under this Act might petition ; but how were they to petition? their petition flutist be against the gaoler; lhev are re denied pen, ink, owl p 'per; w he! c were y to get them. Wvoid the gaoler, the 111;111 of whom they were to complain, against whom they Isere to petition draw up that petition, and present it fur them? He entail see 1111 ObJeetioll wbicii eunld eXiNI against intptiry into this cane ; he tholight it would he for Ilse interest 4.1 !Minister% to pro. Mule inquiry ; anti 10 sliew, by all possible mean, thelhi, great power in Mal they had obtained ruder the plea of ne. cessAy, , was exei ei-ecf w ith propriety, and with all the human. tiy possible. The Honourable Member, concluded tiv 'lliat the I'etition of Thomas Evans be referreif to a select Committer. A ODINGTON observed, that all the ailk/ations in the petition were nufrounded t he could not avoid expressint his astonishment at the proposition now made; which was no less than that a Secretary of .slate, who, as his noble retails e was, teas always ready to receive the complaints or prisoner., should daily midst: tiquiries to awes tain if surd' prisoners had any complaint to make. :so fir was his nolde relation from laying any restraint on persons iu confinement in niaLii4 their complaints, that even verbal complaints bad been ne. ce cil and attended to at the Hume Deparimvnt. Wile respect to the treatment of the prisoners in the prison, there was an unlimited allowance of coals; candles, indeed, were allowed only on slier -MI occasions and by special order. stress had been laid on the circumstance of the pri soner having been deprived of his flute : but it w as one of the estahli-lied v ales of the prison that no innsical tutor tttttt nrs should be allots ed them. Of Ihe gnoler of this prison. h. 1•1 never heard any thing bid what nas host iiolo , llrabie to tits character; and, motel all these eiremostanees, he considered the Hon. Gentleman', lion might not to he tittettitittud. lie should therefore move the 'nevem', question. Mr. Suaw said, from his knowledge of the head /ardor of the prison iu question, lie wit., (/111'1116yd the ataitittent was rn oncons. M. BENNETT said, that what he had to complain of. was that the Ministers 'hyoid send men to such prisons—io pit .; in.., the regnlations of whicli sieve incossistent with the con finement of persotis committed as Mr. Es mas was. Mr. H. SUMNER defended the euntinet of the Magistrates of the comity of Sort ey. Mr. S. ‘VORTILEY amid , he never saw a filar so completely trumped up to impose on the credulity of the piimic. respect to the petition of Mr. Lvans, it most hase uteri Allow et to Mr. Harmer, who drew the second petition, that the “..*.- gitti(llls respecting the first were imbue: ailti theieture. he ought not to have introduced the charge agatust we Stele tory of State. Mr. BENNETT desired not to be charged with presenting to the House mit*, ;;; eiled and trumped up *knit-a. Mr. S. Wont I.F mot mean to make any sods charge. Sir F. BuitnETT thought it rather tattoo' ditiary that tie H on . Gentl e ma n Al Milli not agree to going tutu the ii•i.in inittee; because, by so doing, he wou'li give an uvoriot.ity to a person confined in a loathsome prison to clear lino ,roan the imputation of 11,1111phi:4 up stin it, to iiitlaive ellll4 im age the politic mind. 'the Hon. Batimet could nut tulip t that many tientletnen in this lionise, on the occasion of an enquiry into the conduct of Arts, the (..use noir of Coldtiatii hems prison, were ready to rise and ic.t . fy to the 11111o.d1111:1 u( that MAN; and among the rest an Hen. and religi.,e‘ Mr. S. 1t OHTLEY here rose: to order , Mad Appease to the Chair whether this epithet was to be tolerated. The SPEAkER said, if it was itteLiat ironically. he would put it to the Hon. Baronet, whether he would persist in Mil. log sIICII The lion. Baronet denied that be intended to Teak it oni. rally o f th e lion. Gentleman. tlie tidier for 11. stn net Ir, di m cc • ~ who hid described the 1111/41 of k. iti fields as an Ito/Tills( rather than • pltiOU. lsnt , Itowr.%cr, (Ivor the Rtonainder ef eke l'erleststultry, set Sith Pagr.j