The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

_-.~ V - '"" .~----- liill, for the purpose of submitting one or 110 ver bol amendments. Mr. I.ANIO sugtested the propriety of omitting such parts of the Bill as appeared to be of a question able nature till the nest Parliament. Sir W. BURROUGHS strongly objected to that clause which required that 400 votes should he polled •n the first two days, and as many on the third day, sir that the Election should close. He was convinced, that the effect of such a provision would be, to dis franchise a great number of -resident vote's, lit . • _ A7ll. • -- .... pence to the caoslislates. -Mr. WI LB KRFO-RC flappers -ea the clause. Lord MILTON and Mr. MARKYAT said a few words. . . Mr. J. SNIIIII thought, _that the clause relative to the 400 Nlembers was, in some degree, calculated to give too much power intro the hands of the Return ing Officer. Mr. W. WYNN said, that certainly the Return. ing Officer might object and stop the proceedings in some degree, but ,the undifintsed votes. mould be going on.—(hear, hear;)-- He thought:that a man would hardly succeed is; his Election who could not bring up 200 Meeibers In the Iwo first days. If they were not remedied, all the towns and cities in the kingdom would be exposed to very great People might come op who had only the means of bringing seven votes a-day, and say with these votes I will keep the poll open the whole t 5 days, and, as the law stood at present, that might be done. 'ln A-vonshire, the roll had been kept open by a per. auniselio ltpd orily 19 votes, and it was . only by acci thipt that : 400 been hindered from contineing the volt. In Bristol the same thing bad happened from tarson who could only bring nine or ten votes. In klnkshire, one who could only bring 500 ; eotes had is rip! the open the whole 15 days. Ile hoped it that because that „will .the Kist II -setisinti of the l'atliament, therefore the evil ought tpk.riftrered in @pat : tip another, especially at that moment when the poll might 1-e kept open merely for the purpose of disturbances.—[year, hear These observations were what bud struck him as im• portent, 114 he hrped . tbe Bill would not be ob. Ise tett to. s NA•49,l3N:$4t 911.PAP!sined• „ ? .siIic..t..vSIIINCI (PA theoglot that the wording of Is i tsas of Ihe.clauses 1141,14 iptneral., b Aip oltouciii AM, hoped ,tltet .very thing unex ceptioneble would.pe.,cl,4oe ayaey with, that the,. Bill be al alkiffi4llrly44d , is..Prott.esss as it 40 hoer, last year. : .119 44 then, wished it to be wiuted,after,the Committee,with the.blatiks filled up, aittt : be Anneglit that ,weeicl have beets proper. There as one ciuse preveeting freemen from !eking up Oleic fseetlom that they ; 401 ht vote, to which li g e,had 'lrjected, and this be nom . happy low vies left out. VOh respect to the deur* relgOvaowthe4oo voters, i 4 ens a question shouter 8 smeller uumbec of VOW.. or ,s greater number ofdays might not be allowed.- 4t the same time he thought it might he a question, the word ' tender' instead of 'poll,' and a clause, 9lowin the Election to go on while the Ite., turning Officer s fulfilling his duties, might not be . was wa stecessery.... Bat lie .did not think that it ought to remain 'as it stood ; at any rate, some alteration, •be made, lie conceived, relative to the 4 . &POI: llecould, trot exactly agree with the propriety of throwing the ea pestres upon the shoulders file (att i s i tituents arum those of the CatodideUrs. It step ~designed I o favour theuiselms at the imp! perisri i i for, though that House were not 111 e ethX i pe 7 rpons cepcersied, yet they formed the pftltose.inte rested. With respect to quatifica. im p !), thee/tit the.) ear and the day's possession was Ble,Oest, title, unless iodeed the House should think ikeiewessary to bate a complete and absolute register ; reel thri o n ly ' time, when such a plan was attempted, there Vitiff . Pglitiums against it from all parts of the 3 i 1 1! "1. e hoped the House would permit It es to inform them Isotr toe question stood. With reaprct to the elleratiou of any words that hid been *weed to in the Committee.. that could not then be testae; but for any other alteration that might be pro. l'Usofk she Lipase. was Opew.to agree to or dissent from it. Sir W. UURROUWIS wished the discussion to 14 postpqnp(l2 pr. 11111.1411911$,wsssurprised that the House should be" gravely asked to postpone the discussion, when the Bill had been already so well considered. — It did not appear possible that it could have under vine a more complete dipeussion. Sir W.,,WRIIOUGIIS thought it impossible that they Could, in their present state. do justice to the Bill, and therefore he should move that the (louse be counted. Mr. W. ‘VYNN thought it would be a more re gular prOceetlisig to let the Bill ,be re-committed to. morrow, than that the Report should be re-consi dered.. lie should, therefore, propose that ; and he tiered the lloose would bate 'no objecticin to allow the Bill to be read a third time the *nest day. Ile thought it very important that these should be as' ninth consideration given to the Bill as possible, espe daily as it was so oear the Quarter Sessions. As to tile number of voters, he had heard of . 3000 having bleu brought up in one day ; and indeed if he had had his own u ay, he would have proposed a greater num. be.: but as it was, he would tether that it should be wider that, above the mark. After some other observations from Mr. G. Bats KES, General THORNTON, and Mr. H. DAVIS, the ques tion that the Bill should be re.committed to-morrow, whs pitt and carried.—Adjourned. 141tENG11 PAPERS. - T - et" l'ellAMßEtt OF DEPUTIES, Fin. 11. • 11414 7 Dttroryr (de l'Eure), made the following pro position:— " That the King be humbly prayed to present a Vcojett of Law for the perpose of securing the con stitutional exercise of the Liberty of the Press, of defining with certainty the responsibility of authors and printers, of determining the characters of of fences arising from printed works after their publi- Dation, sod of establishing Trial by Jury, with re gerd.to offences of the Press." The proposition will be cleveloped in one of the neat Secret Committees. A Petition was presented from M. Saleles, met.- chant, in the !ale of Bourbon, who protested against - she riolotion of his properly h Governmvett. Scone l'rench proprietors, poi property in Spain, clamed lie first addiiirstial Article, of the'T' J uly, 1811, bet week i France a 'op.:restitution of the properly _ men in Spain, and which had been sequestred. The 'delay Which had arisen gave reason to sey;Pose thaw, his Catholic Majesty, returning to the 'firs stipulit i,. oinns, wished to recede himself from the performance of a rontrart, which heft become one of the bases o modern policy, a contract (hat Sovereigns have re ligiously observed, that the Pope has sanctioned in his oerritnoies, and which lately has been confirmed by the Diet of Gereteny,that protected theputchasere of foreign oath - mai property, who were sehjects of the Prince of Hesse Castel. Thls Petition, also, wes . referred to the Minister for Foreign A f f airs. P • -••••••• ' PA 11.1‘, FEU 15.—His Royal Highness the Doke of A ngouleme received yesterdry evening • visit fro* the Duke of Wellington. Since the event of the 10th inst. the Duke of Weld litogton has received, daily, visits from the King's Ministers, the Ambassadors, and the most distin guished personages in the capital. His Lordship takes Isis usual ride ms horseback, accompanied by one of his Aids-de-Camp. Yesterday M. Boullanger brought an action . against M. Joseph Bonaparte, to recover very ime portant claims, in the name of Al. Mottet, merchant of Madrid, who complains of au act of dispossess. hog effected through violence and force of arms, by Joseph Bonaparte, when the tatter occupied the cab; OW of Spain. The Sieur tvlottet obtained, par deo faut, in November, 1816, a judgment, by which We recovered two hundred and some thousand francs, for indemnities and interest. lie caused his personal properly, the Castle of Morfontaine, to be seized, and the seizure was declared lawful, in oppooltiom to the claim of the Sieur Clary, who pretended to have bought the property, as a part of his real and per sonal estate. M. Joseph Bonaparte has protested against this judgment by default. Ile has engaged for Advocate M. Tripier, who will reply on Friday next to the pleading of M. lloullanger. The .Madrid Genetic confirms the intelligence from Genoa respecting the conduct of the Dry of Algiers, toward' the foreign Consuls. The news has been brought to Nlahots by several vessels from Algiers, the passengers on board which, all agree as to the circumstances which have been already Muted. Our Vienna. Correspondent informs us, that the intel ligence hes been officially transmitted to the Count de ltossi, the Sardinian Minister at the Austrian Court.' BASLE, Fca. s.—Yesterday at the Sitting of the Grand Council of the Canton, the Swedish Colonel, Gustavus Adolphus Gustayson (ci-devaut King of Sweden), was formally introduced, and received as a citizen of Basle. - . __. ........_ . . _. _. _ ... Prsict: OF STOCKS THIS OAY AT ONE O' CLOCK. Ikink Stock 2896 • h per Cent. Nilo* 1031 t • • 9 per Cent. Red. 801 India Bonds 103 p . 3 per Ceut. Coninl• 79i 80 -- Stock Conmils for Acc. 00 • Long Ann: TN 21 4 per Cent. 99‘ lischequerAdls 111 26 p . • THE STATESMAN. Secret Committees have not subjects upon which am for they have not yet Reports ittoither House.— declared that, ...whet] the should be fully enquired be the coTictlen .oe( ) a t ,Co s atmittee, that Mi. 'tasters had so conduc t themselves, &c."— kowte people may consider*ka very preposterous way Of talking on the Parrothis Lordship, who ap pears so.confidently to know what will be the cowrie. Lion of the. Committees ; bet we really hare no liesi • Mimi in believing the Noble Lord in this instance— since His beyond contradiction that the Committees, Whosejudgment is to be decisive on the conduct of Mini. sters, are composed of Ministers themselves ; and no testimony is to be received at the Bar of the En quireks, but such as tends to help them out with their esoteric justification. Liberal and indulgent souls! ,".they seek no protection for therriselves—they only ask that they may not be convened to betray Mote who furnished the information upon which they acted." To betray such men as °firer, and Bradley, and Mullin, we suppose ! As to Magistrates, after I the stimulating Circular of the Home Secretary, we think it would indeed he rather too bad to throw the blame and the responsibility upon them of the late acts. But we really doubt much whether there are many o'vespectibleperson.." to be betrayed in tl•ii instance, lasi if respectable authority could be adduced in proof of the much disputed allegations, we have that con. 'Gdence in Ministers to believe that they would 'not be over delicate in the sacrifice of names and authorities. If Magistrates, by the exercise of their powers as such, or others, by their incontestable knowledge of facts, base been the cause of repressing dan gerous conspiracies, they will doubtless be very well pleased at being hailed as Patriots ; and if they have been the causes of unmerited sufferings to their fellow.creatures, they ought still more to be exposed. Dot itiviteet be obvious to every one, that if the case of Ministers had been so clear, they would have had no occasion to shrink from a fair and im. p.. Q l / 43, IG E DIAL, Pm. 18.—Arri red ind t Sail the Lonack,44scoll, from Born's% jesty's ship erno l from litem,, and St. Helena, with passengers.—Csi t he itiver,the Britannia,Fisher, forGy Barton, for Jamaica: James liar ditto ; Venelis, Hearn, for ditto for New York ; Shelelagh, Cross illism~, Monserratt ; William and Henry, Southern, whole outward-bound realaits, detained. hi winds. • RANSGATE, Fin. 18.—The Dutch Zeelust Carel, F.edriks, from Am" Batavia, was off the North Fore's' all well.—Several ships have put in PonTsxouTit, Feu. 18.—The Vii has put hack from ave.—Sailed the for London. I'LvatouTtr. Fzu. 17.—Came in wer, from'St. Michael's for London, II AltWfalf, 1413.18.—Sailed tile Cs! with Mails and •priv4engert,for Mtv( Lord Melville packet, with ditto, FALMOUTII, FEB. 16. Arrived packet, from Lisbon ; sailed the 3.1' Countess of Chichester packet, for Wellington packer, for the Brazils. WINDSOR, FEB. 18.—Yebterda; YORK arrived at the Castle from Oats. to her MAJESTY 'and the PRINCESSES, Dowager Couple's of PEMBROKE from Richmond Park. and Lady C, This monies the Duchess of Yi for 04iInnds. The Mike nf. CLA RENCE WI, to eV day, as to be able to lea town for Bostty. egtf /der his Serene Highness* Ilosinuttau visited the Duke and BERLAND. He also receiver! visits CUMBERLAND and Gi.ouctimt;m, IlloGiss. A number of .distitiguisl called to pay their respects. 1? Serene Highness went to dine ; CAMDEN to meet the P11124;16 112.01 The report relative to Vim h ea l . , POLD is 100 true. Escept prime diem intervals, his Serene Highness has but • general decline of his strengtl regret by all who approach him. that, if the genial air of p or ießhi effect a beneficial change, his Sell visit Germany and Italy. Yesterday a Court of Directnt East ladia•lioose, when the ff were sworn into the command ships, viz.:—Captain I.4t.ttysteLi tain Tcmet.att, Perseverance ; for The Earl of SErroze, we have (hi perfectly recovered. His I.or left Crosteth, near Liverpool, 01 town. They are expected in Ai evening. Accounts from Antigua, of the in consequence of recent indicatim the neuvoe•, the military force of in requisition to assemble et the shi tire. A very severe shock of weak felt at Sr. John's, which lasted sever , which the vibrations of the earth, alarming description. It was .repoi advices came away, that consider consequence been sustained in island. It is confidently staled, that, on Lord MELvit.t.E from the Admira' Marquis of HASTINGS in India, BUCKINGII.III will be appointed return of the Marquis of HasTING! be expected in the ensuing autumn. iiIIIIIEET IN AMERICA.—An given in the American Papers of al a Colonel John Anderson to bribe Member of Cagiest, to support i (erred by the Colonel, which were lion of a Committee of the House, of the Hoprtsentatives on this regarded as a high. breach of Pt Anderson, occupied several cloys, to have been brought to an en.. Some of the Papers are astonished should deliberate for a moment on ' supporting its own dignity in the semblies of this sort, upon such picion is entertained, that as the qk plicate certain Officers of the Gore , might have enough to do, if it wet this 'Demi, n, the work of expui-ion Paper, in allusion to this attempt at bribery gives us an amusing song. " John Anderson, say fa," which runs thi;,:— .• John Antlergon, toy jo John, lino Airy to btly si Congre.,, nun, at d not , Wu, idler 'ton so *null, John ? )otor p. k bid hiAlter and are' 4.411 neat titer, Juku Long Credit—A Bond.streiit the other day, that although he mlrcelefitl in gelling (we preset long credit, yet he must allow . rh ry Contractor, had far oat-done his undertaking to procure credit ousand y ears ; for his part be caul tor it was so long a term, that L Long. himself could go such kngths. Dun Patrevrico.—Colonel T were taken into custody, at Tornhans-green nesday morning, while they were preparing alluel. Saturday Sir Wm. ComcnEvc was easy eltcted a Member for the Borough of Plyt, Three Catidiclates will start for that Borougi nest General Election—Sir TOODIAS BEAT TIN, Sir CHARLES POLE, and Sir W. Cotton , COLCIIVITER ELECTION, FEB IS.—At close of the Poll, the numbers were:— Mr. Wildman ... • 51 Mr. Harvey - - lel Al.jorit) in farlar.of Mr. Wikirtato ,11 by the *gents of the It would seem that the Se yet fully empire& into the nrchasers of national were-olipniiited to decide, • Sefosceueesit of the • ,resty6or '2oth o fVeillefed forfrii With,their R ind*iain ‘ *lath% to I.lojd 9MTLIERiAOII has de lin6essod by Preach: Cando A or Ministers sh, • rg7y. Batavia, —Came dwn truss Trona& ; St. Mar y, r ris„ C u ll om , r e : ; Gideon, Cog lutott,, &yogi, y„, taioed ; by contr ar y itch ship Nienv,r atsterdam ) ward to Maud the IGth iair. 4 here for shelter. • C llV:ien a i: s t t Ellie li neg r c e eMt a 'r g allA ls t ie tiswedli:n k n o l: t I"netsluys ;so d t b,: for Cuxhaven. red the Arehella 3d guar.—SsiJed (bp it Lisbon ; and the s. ay the Duchess of Datlands, or a visit cesscs, as did the (Lady is Waitiug) ALTnouri:. ours left the castle much better pike. abort two o'clock the Prince of nests Duchess of Coo. from the Darla Mended by Colonel kgnished /hamlets In the evening his • with the Marquis isms. ,Ith of Prince lA. ileum:l6c attacks at is no acute disorder, th is perceived with : P. It is understood hire does not Mt !retie Highness silts Irs was held at the following Captains of their respective Lc, Cabal's ; Cap. r China direct. the pleasure to state, ordship and family nu Tuesday last ter l.rlitigtoti-street this e 24 ult. state, thett ins of revolt swag' the island was held Mortest possible no. earthquake had beta rend secenda,4lurieg a, were of the most 'ported } d ies theft erable injury hail,' sume pare of dr' ) an the remold se) ally, to succeed das v, the Marquis at I First Lord. The' cg, from India, oaf o. I - 4:0 amusing taste/ Is . an attempt made by tea Mr. Williams, e •t certain claims we- 're under consider!. e. The proceedings affair, which was Privilege by Colonel s, and do net appear mike conclusios.— ished that Congress on the propriety e usual style of As- ' h charges; but sus- question tends to ite• "'realest, the liaise t , eve to COMMPOCe, Oa ion. An American opt of the Calomel% Parody of the 01 d ," the first stanza ut • c ould ye bie , ea P.l Pie lure the int,ll ? 'p. .a qui e 11/111 NAM API Vann. my pi t lounger observed, le had been tolerably sme he meant lakidg) that !list', the Lot- lone him in this way. credit for Wine for could not swallow it, t he thought gut ens Ohs. T. and F. H. .1. E.q• •nhart.green on %%W- -ere preparing to fight. vc was Vtlllllll loll 4 rough of Plymouth." • that Borough " 454. LOMAS 8Y.01,,p MAIL- f W. CUSGREIS• A u IB.—At the bun THE STATESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1818 The State of the Prisons in the City of London was brought last night under the consideration of the House of Commons, and, on the motion of Mr. Alderman WOOO, the late Lord Mayor, a Select Committee was appointed, to inspect and report up on it to the House. it is a subject well deserving of investigation. The object of the Worthy and active Mover was to exculpate the Magistrates of the City of London from the charges of inattention, which, from time to time, have been brought against them; but he at the same time acknowledged, that many parts of the present system required alteration. Prisons have, unfortunately, little to induce even curiosity to remove the veil of seclusion and mystery in which they have been too long enveloped, and charity has been seldom found sufficiently active to explore the recesses of guilt and misery. Hence their unfortunate inmates have beets permitted to languish unpitied and unprotected, whilst the most grievous abuses and neglect on the part of those in authority, have passed unseen and eucensured, except by the u nhappy and helpless sufferers. Mr. Bess:Eves ex• ertions for correcting the almost inveterate evils of Prisons, are beyond all praise ; and his epinions respecting the causes and the means of their removal are so decisive as to defy the possibility of refutation. it is but too true that when these abodes of misery are visited by those who possess the power of ad. ministering relief and redress, they are not seen in their every day condition, but in the holiday appearance put on for the occasion of inspection, and that the voice of just complaint dares not be heard lest vengeance should follow it in a still greater mea sure of tyrannic infliction. Much of the distress that is felt in Prisons, may Seise from the want of proper classification, and Magistrates conceiving that they perform their duty when they maintain the system they have received from their predecessors; but we imagine not a little of the must grievous part of the evils felt in Prisons,and perhaps by none more feelingly, t h an those who have be innocently com mitted, arises from the protection (forded so Jailers in every part of their conduct. The unfortenate Debtor experiences this its a poignant degree, as well as the actual criminal, and those who, though ac cused of serious ',Tepees, have yet the protecting in• dunce of the laws to plead ; but because the indi vidual may have been unfortunate enough to incur suspicion, or sutler the extremity of a merciless creditor's resentment, to the deprivation of liberty mast too often be added that of every other comfort and natural claim. partial Committee. Another day's Paris Papers (to : the 16th) have reached up. The Doke of WMUNGTON had been . . visiting the Duke of ANGOULEME, but. no further elucidation of the attempt upon his Grace's life is given in the Papers. This silence on the part of the Paris Journals, on the " atrocious attempt," does not at all please the Treasury Editors here. They cannot uuderstand the "utility of this mysterious silence." There may be'more " utility," however, in this dumb show, than the alarmists on this side of the water imagine. We can conceive cases where silence may be " commendable" in more than " sleet's tongue dried, and an old maid not vendable." —The statements which we gave yesterday from Pa risian letters, afford a tolerably transparent gloss to the understanding of this " mysterious" affair. The result of Count Axuces, the Sub-Prefect's, investi gations upon the scite o f the attempt, the position of the assailant, and the finding of the ball in the ceiling of the gateway, five feet above the carriage, with the circumstance of the 44 Illustrous Duke" hiving got his Guard of Honour, may be taken as very good reasons for not making any further noise about the matter ; but we must at the same time say, that we are at all times bound to judge charitably where we have no real grounds to think otherwise. The pre. ceedings against the Rouen Dauphin still continue. In the Sitting of the 1-Ith February several witnesses were examined, among whom was the sister of M.arriu errs BuuNaAu, but she was not positive that the Prisoner was her brother. A witness, named Arsme ROSALIE SIMON, whom the reporter represents as of the school of Madame KRUDENEIt, affected much mystery, and stating that after much enquiry she had given him a gold watch and ring, she concluded by declaring that her ideas on the matter should die in her own bosom. This is another mysterious affair, the " utility" cf the reports upon which it will be equally difficult for some persons, not in the seems of I.3uunnorr to understand. In the Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 14th, a voluminous Project of Law respecting the Custom Duties was read. It appears from this that the Tariffs in general have been lowered, in order to destroy smuggling. The Custom Duties on Im ports have been particularly reduced in the Project. The account of the bad crops of silk last year has determined the Minister to propose the Suspension, until the Ist of August next, of the duties upon fo reign silks. 1.- The Journal des Debuts gives an article from the Madrid Gazette, dated from Port Mahon, Island of Miuorcs, which goes to confirm the intelligence frem Genoa, respecting the conduct of the Dey of A La I to the Foreign Consuls. The news was conveyed to Minorca by various vessels from Algiers, all the pas sengers of which concurred in the statements already given. It is added, in one of the French Papers, that an official account of these outrages bad been dispatched to the Count DE Prossr, the Sardinian Minister at the Court of Austria. The 5 per Cents. were, en Saturday, 66 f. 15c.; Rank Actions, 1558 f. Yesterday the Dachess of GLOUCESTEIe spent the day with the PRINCE REGENT at Cari.on.bouse. Viscount NI ELTILLE end the Hanoverian Millie?, had audiences of the l'itlNCE REGENT yesterday at Carlton-house. -t•