The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-25 00:00:00

Bill could be extended to EXCUEQUER begged Gentleman that in Ire- that it was she system of re transferred. EXCHEQUER admittc4 attending to. A clause r, with propriety be int ro , sanded an ad valorem duty S approved of the plan esr n contemplation of the lato But it was or.e likely to im the brewery. The pre 'fair monopoly, not la anti , metal consumption. I to the measure. on the ufair duty on the brewers embarked in the trade, was imposed on the new Bill was calculated to en.: ed to. IPLIANTICIVISUP 1141+6 the Berri of the 31erchant to thi principle of the Bill, don of commercial reguls and impolitic restraints on easels. It wee opposed to taiga not, be was satisfied, oe more efficient *camas to . , I, that whenever any mason/ tweets employite sod the in arong u-ceseity or political DMA for it. It bad been the , at to waintalo.tlie maritime kisSOUhtry by measereseabich• rictions neon individual con do the N•ivigetion Laws and. I. The llonourAble Member ardo) was not perhaps awarer dons of apprentices. There of parish Apprentices, whose agiber class, who writ to sea. science and seanianohip which. w the prof •stion.. As the law e liable to tee impressed at the mSISICS would• protect both up to tb‘Paire of 21. 'lle this protection to masters of uld. baighly beuipkial to Ibis tintrf, by agAriliog die .best ice of skilful pilots and. seasuen. d.of the haste with which this through the.Bouse. He trosto would be imposed oo the shit. try. said that the pruiclpal tater. ad been consulted as to the ex p, and that all expressel thn and considered it Its a boon.ex th which th•y were connected. • d under this Bill; apprentice* Ott now for the bast time be aks without bring liable to itn- re testimony to the general abl ated in the m erobanta' ter fur Portarlingion (dlr. IC 'fissure as a restriction open the did not seem to occur to that bat this and Many other iiiitria• Ind salutary. ttopayarte .borf had a throne of adman', he be owlets would grind it powder nuet - say that the econo ire reedy to grind thw navy and seder, rather than ahandnn their concerted with the tiallaat Ad m.) that the present measure had s approbation of the ship-owners. meat, " That all the words in the e word repealed." sugh he agreed in the principle the option of taking apprentices ed his Hoeoumble Friend (Mr. s his Amendment, es it would de vice of-the protection afforded by Bard to the liability to inspreas• supported the Bill. He concurred t it had received the unqualified Ip-owners. Pi approved of the Bill, not only 'tiding:tad protection to the Mer rause it was calculated to maintain the country. ressed his approbation of the rather a modification of the eXilt neisure ; for, by the 2d and 31 ut ever been repealed, Matters of all too., were boned to take one or :ordiag to the rate, of tameace. led this. the present existence of meet fur the enactment of ethers. ere were already obliged to take sr of apprentices, that was no rdsbip should be made g ‘ eneraL At there was an Act, for the stuffing beds, but did. It follow. laws should be made to. compel adhere to that Standard ?—(A d to the Bill. as unlikely to realize ich were expected from it. If sea m be tearer, wages would be high, I then procure enoeg h to a nswer by these laws of compulsion you crt sr of sailors than were necessary, i compel many we ll-bred teamen to •to look for employment.' Lty this pet many excellent seamen to become obliged merchants to the plough to es. 'The clause to which his hue. objectei, was the compulsory deur, lid be join him in the necessity of r, that he would divide with bin,even tit. . . then cleared . for a division. -Against it, 6—Majority in favour of - raIttOOVSING BILL, ission into the Allery. we foiled tbis in the act of being br ugbt up. and moved that the Bill be re-coultnired sesding certaia Ameadaserrts. !g • resolved , itself into a Vonanittes, r objected to that port of the . Bill warelsoasing of. feamfo l Usr witor transit clistyy, as meat sejurkas wthe Lead. :did not wish to prejudge turf Vol lie did not wish - to evtoislre or me side ; bat he those" -Oka GE: ' l e Bill were bound • to po in t oat tbs. do. oght the people of itsplead. bad beet ts ey had remelaeit. Vides** Ipreelb9. gyp. ink of )?UP'* werd of the tvstrii EAtv Now, whit iris the 11-of this jest? His Ileopacsbh: WWI had legislated for Ireland ; he had decreed. that the a protec tion of this duty should be taken away i n 1920, nd tliis wittiest any notice to these who were so deeply inter ested. It had been announced. that the Bill would be re ad a third time about the 2 lst of next swath. and there weed, he bad no doubt, be in the mean time great diepetes la Ireland. Mr. WALLACE repelled the charge of the Honourable Baronet. If he had made an exemption three years ago, he had made it with an express understanding that it was not to he permanent. He had done it with a view not tb the general principS., but with reference to the state of Ireland at tho time t he bad, however, stated, tint 1.• did not wish tipreelode discussion on this part of the subject. The sit . imptioe was not to he removed for two years, and this would afford ample time (or escertsining what Was to be it ' Oat ;he would a'so let the Bill lie some time Envious to tote second reading, in order that the principle might be fhlly investigated. He did not pledge himself to any po ve ops, hut he would say, that he had doubts as to the expediency of granting the restriction of the transit ditty it. B. RICE thought the general principle in favour of *continuation; but they ought to be guided by the effect Allah it wi,uld have upon that country, to vtbkh it MOM Immediately applied. Air-PEEL thought there was a peculiarity In this case. Parliament ought to be guided not by the general principle, but by whit pas best for the trade of Ireland, and what mould metribete moat to the traaqatillity .of that country. — Ireland had been devised of her Woollen Irrade for the sake of the Woollen Trade of England, and therefore it was but just to continua protection to any branch of industry which she possessed. Col: li.Aßltif mid, that as the diacussion would he in convesieut an she thirst reading , of the Bill. he there fore hoped th.t the Meal lientrorahle Getitleman would postpone the cotuuntuaeot of the Bill until after the fleeces. • Mr.DENNET rigeriled the measure as well of great iMereat as of importance to Ireland, as connected with its tranqaill tv ant, welfare. Mr. WALLACE soul, that it was his intention to bring io *clause to prevent Foreign Watches being brought into England, wits tu Irks ralculated to deceive the pur chaser* as if manufactured is England ; and also a clause obliging all Wine is the warehoums to he bottled in Xogliels bottles. . • Those clauses were brought up and agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUIIR expressed Isis full concurrence in the object of the Bill, and his a i ll inguese to Ore the regulation of it his support and his co-operation. The House mooned, and the Report having been brought up, the Bill was ordered tube printed, and to be read tit...third time on Monday the filet of April. l'lte CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. gave no nce of his intention to move on Wednesday next for an Address to his Makes.. for the erection of two monuments, onetO Lord St.lincent and another to Lord Moven. Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for leave to bring in a Bill It, prevent uccesiouility voters in Boroughs in Wales in order to. bare it primed and , laid before the House for its goesideratioo , --.Leave was then given. ilv. CIO PPS nsuveti for lease to bring io a Bill, to enable. county magistrates to grant a premium of 241!. with Peri elt Apperutioes. They were ROW allowed to grant 10/., which was fr. qnently a greet injury. He, tuer•- fo.e, moved, for leuveto bring in a Bill to emend the Pa rish Apprentimalsip Lowe. Sir J. BOU(iHEY said, that at the beginning of the Session he had bat an intention of brinetng forward a Bill of neatly the stone stature, which he had, however, postponed, in °motorbikes of the noticed hilHon. Friend. As the Ball of his Hon. Friend was not similar to billows, ho declared big itstentiou of moving for leave to bring k in, in order to its bring printed, and euhatitted alseto the consideration attire House. • Lie, M. A. I'AYLOtt, asked, if the regulations pro ' riateraby the Won.- Member would affect all Parish Ap. Omit* s. Mr.'CRIPPS teplied in the affirmative. Leave oft: then given to bring in the Bill. Sir: HOME:tiiiatpossed his motion for presenting the pptitiou. frogt. the inhabitants of Cape 'Breton till to morrow. Mr. SlECS.obrebted leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act (7th lieu. ).I.b. cap. 21.) relative to Quorum My gistrates in Cities and Towns Corporate. CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND. Colonel IItIAILY rose to move for certain papers of great importance as affecting the discussion which was to take place on the 15th of next month. The import ance of the dismission which would then take place, ren dered the production of all the papers calculated to throw light oft the subject mot only useful but necessary. Lithe Hon. Member who would bring the motion for ward on that day would state the whole of the subject fntly,it was not his intention to enter at large into it. lie should merely move for copies of the informations en which the commitments of • I persons to the gaol of.Newgate in Dublin for a conspiracy to murder the Lord Lieutenant had been founded. Without entering into any detail of the facts attendant on the outrage coot soittetlat their Theatre, which (Jon forbid be should at tempt to justify, he would confine his observations to the circumstance strictly connected with his motion. The facts, which had causedtbose commitments had occurred on the 14th of net ember, and on the following day two pertains had been brought before the Police Ma gistvales in Dublin. After an examination thry had been counnittod to Newgate for the riot and for a conspiracy to (*emit a riot. If he should state • any thing incorrect is the observations which he should shake the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman beneath him could correct his mistakes-. Those two per mit' hgtl been confined in the gaol of Newgate for owe slays, slays, and ou the 23 d detainers had been lodged against them for a toospiracy •o kill and murder the Lord Lima. tenant. Those detainers bad been lodged not lightlynor hastily, but after dee deliberation, and even upon the ad vice of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Sub sequent to the transactions at the Theatre, a gentleman, Indeed be did pot know he was a gentleman or tot, a person named James Forbes, had been taken up on a stopiciini of the conspiracy. but he afterwards bad been admitted to b sit The motion which he should submit to the House might have appeared ill timed, if he bad not waited null; the ex-officio informations had failed, and until the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman bad enter wilds soh prosevosi ! but the production of those papers esald not then be any injury to the parties, for the affair swat an.entl, nor to the public nor to the Government. To the public and the Government it would rather prove ativeotaeous--to the latter, by affording them a means of exculpating themselves from any charge which might lurk against them ; to the public it would prove advan tageous as affording a means of learning the truth.— It might indeed be Objected, and he had no doubt would be lty the Right Honourable and Learned Gentlemea, that the prodoution of them might be productive of in-. jury to the Magistrates who had signed the eononia • rant.; but•if those Magistrates bad been actuated by anothres of justice a those commitments, no injury could be sustained by.them; for, unless it was shown that a Magistrate was *cleated by malice, he believed that the Courts of• LaWeiotild protect him for his act.. Upon time ieformations there had been much inaportance for is them bad originated the addresses which ti e :Cured in from all parts of Ireland to the Lord Lieu tenet, and which addresses had expressed the universal - Ithborrenve which pervaded all classes of the infamous fifia...ZhagroductiOn.ot those papers would also tend. to —she uqiumetigma which bad been thrown upon rllllll4rhend, who could nut but entertain the greatest ahltmeencwot soy GM of such diobolical Atrocity. There was nu doubt that at the time there might be-persons who. THE STATESMAN: believed in the existence of a conspiracy to perpetrate those monstrous acts; but be was persuaded that there was no man in Ireland who behaved now that any such conspiracy had ever existed. Whatever might have been the acts of the rioters at the Theatre, there was nothing to show that personal violence had been intended te trads the Lord Lieutenant- The real state of the cam was therefore necessary ' - and the motion ought, there , fore, not to he resisted, fur Glee lights ought not to be thrown out to the public. If the Goverment of Ireland had reconsidered the facts, and altered their opinion. It au a good opportunity for them to allow their mistake, and to rectify the error. That improper acts had been perpetrated le would deny; and God forbid that be should attempt to justify any thing like those outrages!' but he could not therefore believe that any persons had I at any time ',Pertained a design of summating the Lord Lieutenant. As the whole affair would again hs. brought before the House, be would not anticipate the course of arguments which would then be used, when the Government of Ireland would be put upon its trial 15 that Goose for the acts adopted relative to those person. It was hie jowls° therefore to proceed solely upon Par liamentary grounds; and as no danger or• injury could , now arise from the production of those communicate, he iubroitted to the House the propriety of acceding to ble .motion. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by mov ing for copies of the informations against Janice Forbes, George Graham, and Henry Hands uth, on which had been founded their commitment to the gaol of Newirate in Dublin, on a charge of conspiracy to murder the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Colonel FRENCH (we believe) seconded the motion. Mr. PLUNKETT rose, and said that, from the very , frequent mention of his name by the last speaker, and from the fact of his being the responsible law of of', the Crown, who directed and advised the proceeding, which this motion was intended to arraign, he would ri-e thus early to reply •to the Honourable Gentleman- who had just made the motion. He expected that the Hon. Gentleman, in making this motion, would have ab stained from any allusion of events which, at no distant period, were about to rouse fully for discussion before the Home; yet as he had broached topics which he (Mr. P.) had thought would have been deterred for the 15th of April, it was his ditty to follow him through his line of observations. As far as his conduit was concerned, as far as his name and character, and responsibility, were connected with the transactions to which the Hon. Mem ber alluded, he was must earnestly anxious that the moat minute detail of every• part of his conduct should be laid before the House and the country—(Heat . , beer). Yet, strong as was his anxiety for such developement, be could not consent to racrifi.e to his own personal grati fication a principle which was founded in public justice, anal which was tetimately connected with the ordinary course of legal proceedings in this country. The Hon. Gentleman who had brought the motion forward had certsinty done so with temper, and he felt that it was 1 his (Mr. P.'s) bounden duty to give him credit for the propriety which actuated him in moving for the produc -1 than of those domments. He was bound to believe that no wish to prejudice the discussion for which the Hon. Member for Armagh had given notice—no undue or un timely reference to embarrass the Gov ernment or him I personally—no conduct or mixed motives, entered into the motives which induced the peseta motion. On the contrary, he should presume that a pure abstract love of justice, connected with an important political question alone actuated him, although the Hon. Member must pets , ceive that the motion of the Member for Armagh would place him on his trial on the 15th of April..l and the motion of this evening would, in a manenr.i place him on his trial that night. It was, therefore., somewhat inconsistent in the Honourable M ember, w hose notions of pure and perfect justice had rece i v ed such a shock, with respect to a second trial of the rioters in Dublin, to have condemned him to undergo two trials, to which th. se two motions would subject him.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the committal on a charge to kill and murder the Lord Lieutenant, if the lion. Mover had. been acquainted wi h the course of legal proceedings. be would know it was one thing to commit a wan un a charge, and another to bring lain to trial on that charge. Liformanon, between the timed committal and the time of trial may be attained, so as to justify the alterations of a slight charge into a capital one, or vice versa. He would lay before the House the circumstances under which the capital charge had been Iv ferred. On the 14th of December the Lord Lieutenant intimated his intention of visiting the theatre.—An intimation bad been given to him of an intended manifestation of displeasure, in consequence of his having caused the discontinuance of dressing the statute of King William, a ceremonial that had been indulged in for some time in Dublin for the purpose of insulting the Catholic po- pulation of the ,country. On entering the theatre, tu mult arose. His Excellency was received with warm ap plause from the unbooght and unpacked portion of the audience. However, another portion ranged in the up er gallery of the house and other parts , conti n ue d a vio- Pent system of hissing. Handbills were flung front the gallery, not only insulting to Lord Wellesley's person but also tee the (;embolic population, bearing the in scription " No Popery," " No Popish Government," &e. The annoyance continued without interruption until of. ter "GOD save the King" was played, and at that part of the performance a rattle was thrown by Graham which cut the cushion of the helmet to the one in which he was seated ; and a bottle was thrown from the left band side of the gallery which passed over the pit of the theatre, and atter having hit the drop-curtain mid-way between the centre of the curtain and the Viceregal box, rolled upon the stage. Here the Learned Gentlensael described the construction of the House, and showed, that although whilst seated in his box a missile could not reach him, yet when he stood up and advanced to , the front of the box, it might easily have done so ; and it was at such a time of the performance that the miss sites were flung. When the bottle bad been mentioned by the Hon. Mover, he thought he beard a laugh.—• (Rear, hear.) It seemed aim; d'esprit—a merriment to some Honourable Members.—(Cheers from the Opposl. tion)—the manifestation of merriment had now been followed by cheers on the repetition of mention of this bottle. Gentlemen might act as they thought proper, bat they were egregiously mistaken if they supposed that such interruption could embarrass him. " I would re. commend (said Mr. Plunkett, emphatically) to those Gentlemen who are so anxious for the Manifestation of feeling, to confine themselves within the decorum of the House, and to suppress the expression of their sentiments until it has resolved upon them to do so in the legitimateand ordinary progress of debate. I never interrupted a gentleman myself, and Ido not conceive I ask too much when I ask of others to recipr nate that courtesy. In despite of such interruption, Ido say that no person can fairly thntemplate the fact of such an atro cious insult offered to the Representative of the King, and offered because he bad executed the King's com mands and special directions, without giving to that atro city the most unqualified condemnation.—(Cheers.) The e:itne the Lord Lieutenant had committed was that of go. verning all his Majesty's subjectsin Ireland according to the principles of equal and Impartial law."--(hear.)-s Here the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman entered into a detail of the conspiracy, as proved at the trials it Dublin, and explained, with great force and eloquence. the particular reasons and motives which actuated the Irish tioveinment in the conduct they had pursued. He coarluded by a forcible appeal to the ,reuse to emotion the legality of the proceedings he had adopted. The present motion he resisted on the grounds of the injustice it might do in prejudicing the conduct of the Magistrates who might yet be en theirtrial, and alee•as the ground , of the hapropriety of exposiag iisformation which bad been given to Government under the protection of im plied confidence. Dr. LUSHINGTON could not feel him.elf influenced by the aquatints of the Right Hon. Dentinal". In despite of hie great authority. of the reverence he felt towards his high name and great abilities. he must dis sect from him on the present occasion. After adverting to the legality of the proceedings, he said that he under stood it to have been ascertained that these individuals went jet° the gallery with tickets provided by as Orange Ladge; and in this he could not discover any con spiracy to cothmit murder. It might be a con spiracy to commit a riot; and if so, the offenders were deserving of severe punishment. But how could the Right Hon. eleetleman say that it was a conspiracy to obstruct the Government of the Lord Lieutenant ? If the Homes refused the present motion, it would do an act of gross injustice to the Irish nation and even to Ithe Irish Government; because it leas fit that every in- Kmenation should be laid before the Hon-s that might ..stile it to form a jest judgment Reputing the conduct id Government. Such power as that assumed by the Right Hon. Gentleman had not been exercised since the Revolution. Mr. Secretary PEEL, did not think that the production of the paper in question was at all necessary to enable the House to form any judgment respecting the question hereafter to come before it. Besides, the docuineuts in question might be prejudicial to the ends or justice, in case the parties who bad been committed on a charge of roaspiracy to murder, should bring an action against the Magistrates who committed them. He felt that, on pria ,, ciples consistent with the tranquillity of Ireland, that this question shonld not andergoa second agitation after the iavestigation it had already endergone: therefore he could not agree with his Right Hon. Friend in calling for these papers. Mr. ABERCROMBY maintained that the whole of the proceedings connected with the filling of the is "ratio in formation ought to be IsiJ befere Parliament. At present bat a portion of them was in the possession of the Houle, and this arose from the error which had been fallen iota when the subject was first introduced. By greeting the papers demanded by the Honourable Member for Armagh, Parliament had admitted that a ease existed for iavestlit- don. and could only do justice now by granting all the doe' cements relative to that case.-{Hear, hear !)—The inform. Mons demanded In the present instance formed a portion of those doeynsents, and should not therefore be withheld. It the House were to stop short in inquiries of this sort, it would be attended with much public difficulty. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought the House should be ca teem ly guarded how It consented to the prodaction of tierl informations In question. They were not necessary to the consideration of the motion which was to come liefore Par liament in the coarse of next month—nor fur determinist whether the conspirators at the Dublin Theatre had beak justifiably prosecuted. He could not agree with his Ho 'loveable and Learned Friend near him (Mr. Abercromby,) that because the House had fallen into one error. it ought to fall into others afterwards, and particularly when, as is this case, the interests of third parties must be affected. He should oppose the motion. Lord A. HAfiIILTON defended his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Abercromby) from the coustraction which this St. Hon. Baronet had put upon his argument; and said, he should support the motion. Mr. S. Rica said, he did at once see that the question to be discussed In that House was likely to be affected by tee production of the papers now moved for. The question now at issue wan, whether Ireland was to be governed by. equal laws, or given back again to that faction from which it had been lately rescued—he hoped for ever? With' re gard to the riot at the theatre, no one could venture to sey that there was not an intention to commit personal vio lence; and titan such intention emanated out of Orange Lodges. . • Mr. GRATTAN, said he would support the production of those papers, because he wished to have every thing public. Doctor PHILLIMORE complained, that his Right He lmut-able Friend harTbeeu unfairly dealt with is the clandes tine manner in which this serious charge had been brought 'forward. The real question before the House was, wllether the King's benevolent intentions should be acted on or ,defeated ? Mr. LAM BTON said hishould not have troubled the House at that late hour, had it not been for what had fallen from the Learned Civilian, and from the Hon Mem ber for Limerick. He could not agree with them that the question before the House was one on the issue of which the continuance of the government of the Marquis ef • Wellesley depended. He was of opinion, that a dear case was made out for the, production of those papers.— That House was the only place to which all persons who had to complain of oppression had a right to apply. In his opinion, :prima/ode case of opression was made out ; and he would candidly tell the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Attoiney-Geoeral for Ireland, he had acted unconsti tutionally. The act of the Right Hon. Gentleman ap peared to him to be most unconstitutional, and he felt himself boon) to vote for the motion. believing that it weed not have the effect apprehended by the two Hon‘ eleatlemen who had last slaoken. Lord HOTHAM defended the condoct of the Hon, Member for Armagh (Mr. Brownlow) who was then alo sent at the Assizes in Ireland. With respect to the mo tion, be wished to support it, because be thought the production of those papers would have a beneficial result, Colonel TRENCH supported the motion. He, how ever, disclaimed any intention to favour the cause of Orangemen. He was no Orangeman himself, and was an enemy to all secret societies. Colonel BARRY, in reply, said, he was anxious to see ;not governed by equal laws , but it certainl y could ,00t promote the peace of that country to run down a 'party because popular clamour imputed. to them motives ) to which they were stranger.. He wished to see Ireland without Orange Societies and United Irishmen. Doctor PHILLIMORIained. 1 The House then pro ceeded to a division, when there 'appeared For the motion, 32—Against it, 48—Majority 16. Colonel BARRY then moved for Copies of the iteeor 1 sizances entered intro by the persons held to bail for the riot, and for a List of the Witnesses against them. Mr. PLUNKETT made no objection to the motion, mid it was accordingly agreed to. NAVAL AND MILITARY PRNSIONE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that at that line boar be did not think it necessary to trouble the House with any observations, particularly as it was not unacquainted with the object of his motiou, and as be would have another opportunity of detailing it. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to con 4rni as agreement between the trustee. under an Act of Parliament of last Session, to appropriate the Half-pay .and Pension List, and the Bank of England. Mr. ORENFELL said that he would oppose the bar gain altogether—not from any blame which he attaohed to the Bank, but from the conviction that a better ar rangement could be made with the Conimialooers for re ducing the National Debt. After a few words front Mr. BARING, leave was given I to bring in the Bill. ELECTION PETITION. Mr. HUME presented a petition' from J. W. Parkin. Esq. of Essex-street, Strand , sett i ng forth that he had attended with Mr. Stevenson, one of his. sureties and his agent, for the purpose of entm ing into recognizance. to prosecute the Petition against tine return of T. D Kemp, Beg, for the Borough of Arundel. He had, We ev er, Frac.—indey night tate briiiii' 7 out the house niters. roue for Mr. Harris, his other surety, in vain, and the Stafford , Nb. 314 'Tharer-ennet; flinedisseter'snlinro : the petitioner verily believed that he had purposely absented flames whe l l..."‘P aremil " . 110011 ' " 16. she fi eN4411.4 " , hinuoie Tea Petitioner bad thus been unable to enter and burnt with such rapidity that greet apprehe nsions , _ were entertained'; bet -through the prntupt arrival of the engines, into the reectguissmes heforo twelve o'clock yesterday, m a av a il/ Apo milloeta aster, n eowe ies w e re,geopmely, the time allowed by law. Under these circumstances, he notam t er bp, elegem otdoels, without narfnether mischief. prayed for RD extension of the time, to afford him an op- t h an d e eseeeteg tin e , upircpeet . of, the doseilitqkhoese and. Porlunity of procuring attellietterety. ttte terminus. Sir THOMAS BARING thought the Petition fur a ished no grounds whatever for granting the indulgent . * prayed. Mr. C. K. WYNN considered it impossible to comply witk the prayer of this Petition. Hit were admitted, any name might be put down as a surety, and on a plea like the present the 14 days allowed by law might be at any time extended told. Mr. HUME had put the question to Mr. Parini, wise ther he could produce any letter (roadie. Harris consent ing to become oae of his sureties? To this it was an swered, that no written consent had been given. Mr.. Harris had verbally agreed to be one of his aureties, and, as well as Mr. Stevenson, had voluntarily made the ulcer. He could wish to move theta drays should he allowed the Petitioner to bring forward his sureties. Sir T. BARING enquired if the Hoe. Guatlemas could state, of his own knowledge, that the facts of the case were such as had been described? Mr. HUME conk! not do this. He had crnlv been Wombed of the circumstances within the hut halt hoar. The Petition was prdered to lie on the table. The Order of the Day fur taking into consideraion the Petition against the return for the Borough of Arundel was subsequently discharged; Dr. PHILLI MOUE bronght in i Bill to amend the laws fur prevent profane cursing and swearing. Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to- Morrow. Adjourned at 11.17-past One. DEVONSHIRE ASSIZES. timotAy Silifast, aged nineteen, was tried on a charge of having shamefully assaulted Anne Poo. The defendant and the prosecotrix were it service of Captain Copinger, of &see. She said role had not bees in his ;ern., three dayt before the defendant at tacked her in the evening as slet was in the knife-room, and committed the offence: On her cross-examination she admitted that she bait never mentioned the out rage until near a fortnight after. She ha I not been able to scream out, she said, because the prisoner pre vented her. Had sot communicated what lied happened Eto theother servants. She continued in the family until she was turned away. She admitted, that on the very next day "she joseped over a broom-stick" in the kitchen with the prisoner, and said, " now, Tim, we are sparried." On behalf of the defendant, evidence was add tired vs show, that he bad known her some time heft re she en tered his master's service, as living at iiath and • other places not in the " most terrace' mode of life, and that he in consequence when she entered the house lammed'. iately renieseetel to his unitre that she was net tit to be his fellow-servant. Captaiu Coping? r io conseqnanre 'discharged her. She swore at the time that she would .be revenged of the defendant, for giving her the charac ter be bad, even if she sold the clothes she stood in. The `consequence was, that the present charge was then im mediately preferred. Captain Copinger gave the de fendant an excellent character, and swore that the fainiiy were in an adjoining room when the all-ged tranaactio took place, exit had the prosecotrix chosen to cry oat she must have been heard. The other females of the house. ;who were personally far more attrmtive than the prose cutris, gave the defecidant a good character as a harmless yottrtg man. The Jury acqeisted him, B similar charge was preferred by an abandoned girl, against her master, a married man of about rilf years of age. The defendant was acquitted. The Assizes concluded - this afternoon. John Bolt, the youag man who was convicted. of having shot Jaoe 'Jaeland, war brought up, and received sentence of Death. Mr. Barod MiLLOCK told him that his case was one of peculiar atrocity and aggravation, and, although. since he hid been convicted, it bad received long deliberation, no circumstance baelbeen discovered to mitigate the of. fence, or that could warrant his Lordship in affording the slightest hope. In justice to the laws of the country and to the community, the dreadful sentence u n it not be interrupted, and hit Lordship implored the pri s oner not to lose a minute in making his peace with his Maker, before whom be must shortly appear. The prisoner never w oke a word, sitber on his trial or before his sentence. '1 wenty-one prisoners received sem once of death, but all except John Bolt were respited. POLICE. MARLBOROUGHSTAIUT.—The two young gentlemen,pu pils of Mr. Brooks, the anatomist, were yesterday brought before T. A. Roe, Esq. charged with an intention to commit a breach of the peace, by fighting rdael. Mr. Brooks stated, that these young men, by their re peated qiiarrels and altercations, had caused much irrita tion and party feeling among the whole body of his sta. dents ; be had frequently remonstrated agaiast such con duct as extremely injurious to the study of their profes‘ sion, and disreputable to the character of the establish ment. From some circumstances which came to hls knowledge, he had reason to believe the parties intended to settle their differences that morning by- an appeal to :arms ; be, in consequence, gave information to Graig, tint officer, who, with the patrol, were on the alert, ant at • six o'clock succeeded in capturing both the heroes, as they were about to proceed to Chalk Farm. They were ordered reenter Into their coin recognizan . cev of 1001. each, to keep the pew, Union HALL.-00 Saturday evening, two men newel Wm. Moor and John-Stroud, in tbe employ of a respect able coal merchant, were brought before M. Swatter, Esq. charged with the murder of John Briggs, who kept a buteber'e and green grocer's shop in King's Row, Newington. It appeared from the statement of Snow, the consta ble of Newington, that on Saturday evening last, about seven o'clock, the prisoners were observed driving t.co waggons heavily laden with coals along King's-row ; 6 when opposite the deosased's house, at which stood his horse and cart, the prisoners, in order to avoid drivin their waggon , . over seine new laid gravel which lay su the middle of" the road, cut at the deceased's hors-, Which made him spring upon the pavement and nearly run over a passenger. A gentleman who saw the fellow lash the an.inal remonstrated with him on his conduct, but he received the most vile abuse, and was threateoed with a "fist in his face" if Ls did not proceed on. The unfortunate deceased' beard the dispute, and ran out - o/ his shop, and opon hie ioterference, he Was insmodietely challenged to Sea by•one of the poisoners; *beide -Pr sued, in which that,d emend received 6011111 violent. bl, vs, and in the last round.bis antagonist's compaation - ran up and gave him a desperate blow under the ear, which felled Lim to. the ground. and the unfortunate nate', head coming io contact with as elevated pleat of ircea grating the skull was fractured in so dreadful a manure that he died almost instantaneously. While. the de- . ceased lay extended on the ground, one.of the prisoners was heard to exclaim, " Milk I think we bars dbee for him;' they then drover's: their waggons, add' WON •up preheoded soon afterwardss at Stnelsweile •.: • The prisoners were remanded. ti . ~► ,F, f • .1 s ,I . ;, i