The National Register. — London, England, 1819-12-12 00:00:00

: X . l , • w ~ .. .r • V£l • i • I. fe rimpartal Par/lam:at matinee,: freetpage4os) hail 11?.1111 Ille 0/11 . 11sial . 1141511,:r4 I'l . lo,lllft lie aka think they (niht to he nolieed ; 411.1 01111 1110 • 14 1 4 . 1111 g lie had Nktin spoil himself the ',trim illauee of whir, (lad knew, wait an utipleasmil duly He w 45 um trquainted with ally of the prisons who might he sllllloosusl 10 leave heen en gaged in the publication. It had been said, if 11114 libel were taken notice tii, that 01115.11 ought to he brought be fore the House; but in lii• upi .. i)) it this libel (Idiot d ft Mil . all Ole 11411 receded it. Ii Eventually ails ised die appli. C4llOll of Muth force its abrogate that M i nn>, a nd 1" an. phalli what the author deemed in tie essential to the advantage of the people.— ( Heat, hear,)—He *mild trouble the House with precedents, but lo- tooth' um help remarking, that the house had been slow 10 11141 k tie sense of such libel* as this. Mr. Fox and Mr Sherithot, et ttttt not other.., had contended within thou; wails. that the II Ig HO of the House ouulit to he upheld. The language of dies pamphlet was not that of abuse lam that ..f shire' threat t mid could such tannage he endured i The fittese would allow illt.ol to trail the different pat agiaphs, which .1111.1 . 4 - ILA to him to be of the most libellous tenth-siva One of them was as follows : in page 19 the author said— " What prevents the people from walk int; dow a to the han•e atid pulling out the meitichi it by the ears, locking up their doors, and Minting the key 1110 the 'litanies? I. it soy majesty which lodges in the itienthers of that att•ent- My i 13. i we love them r Sot at all: we have an instinctive horror and disgust at the Very :lOW act i.ltil of a borough umiak r. Do we • especi throe? Not in the teas'. Do we legal. them as 011111./aved with any superior qualities? Oa the COll 1 Lary. indis Mutiny, thee e es imarcely a pout er crea ture than your niece member of Pailiatitent ; though, ill lois cot puratecapacisy, the earth I'lslll6lms not so absolute. at bully. Died due practical protectors, then-- Ilia real efficient anti-reformers—ere to be found at the Hor•e• Guard* and the Knightsbridge-bartacks. Au long as the House ot COMllltolle 111:4ji t . *es are backed by the regi- Bimetal muster roll, so long piny those who have gut the lax-power keep it, and Ilene those who resist." . ~ He collected trona the pasha: cheers wilds lied been raised duritig.the reading of this paragraph, that there were /10111 e geeilluntrit in the house who entertained opt moils similar to those of she author of it. tie was sorry fur il. Abusive, violently abusive as it was, he did nut know whether he should have called Ike express notice of the house to it, if it bad been unaccompanied by others ot a shinier description. He hail no objection to any maii expressing as strongly as he pleased his cons lotto) of lilt necessity of paulternetitary reform ; but lie 1111151 insist upon his net directing the pen pie to stook it by physical force: he mast insist upon his nut leading them to think, that steel* a remedy was the culy reuit-rly left them, and therefore the only euurae which they ought to adopt. (Hear.) The pea - ego - apt, which be hail just read to them, when considered along withithe cuntr•t, evidently expres sed Ilse opiuttai of the writer, that it' was by force alone that parliamemary reform could be accomplished : for, after stating how impossible it was for the louse' to reforni itself, he pi oceedt d to say, in page 3I that " 'twining but brute 101 et., or the presslog fear of it, wuuld i 14 ' 01 111 the parliament. Would any man he ft t Ito say that two meanings could . he pet upon this passage ? Ii there were no oilier passage iu the book but this, the house would not do it• duty, if it slid not institute proceedings live it ; fur in what situation might it be placed. it it did not hike some notice ot this pamphlet? Supposing that Irby prac tical Meets were to result from the ads ice given in it, (and the following of such advice could lead to nothing else bus scenes of confusion and ruin, which no man could contemplate without liortm ), with at hal conscience could the house proceed to punish the miserable wretches who bad been deluded by this work, s• hen it had not declared Its opinion upon the work itself, hl gli !nought before its metier, or shown that it had the power to ;littlish the sophistical *liter of it? In bitch a case, waidd net any person, tovolved in the guilt of rebellien 11010 fillets ing the rtcol ttttt emlation of thic pamphlet, have a right to say to the .huuse, " You have youivelces assisted to mislead me; you ale flow pouring your vengeance upon me, and yet you have 111k1 . 11110 notice of Illy pessen .chose advice It'd isle into that course of crime for which you now ttnnisli me?" He bad 110 means of ascertai tt itt g by ulittoi Iles p.mplil• Latta written; but, from as ha lever float ter it came, it was clearly she pr oda, huh of a iiti,oll i 41,0 (DILd no mean situation in lite, who had received no I minium edit cation, and WI/II ma, endowed with conaiderable talent. When, then, every party in the stale was calling fur the pintishineitt of the twopenny and threepenny plihtisheis of tr,:ison, was it fitting that they should show atty thing l!ke a fear of this author, lit-cense lie cojeyed a more ex alted rank in society than those wretcht d scribblers? After ascertaining the author of this pamphlet,. the I -e could proceed to litrilier nteastirex. tie would now slate what he thought the 111. , p. 2r cultlle tin the house to adopt. lie 14/I.a desirous Milt the liven slionitt proceed in the 5110)1 cautious and most deliberate manner ; and that *hat- CV!, should be done might appear not to arise from imildeu indignation ut personal feeling, hut to be the result of ri— rltetion and 11.01111 e CtillS:del align. The fi=st step *inch la,. proposed to be adopted was, to call to the bar of the hosossi the individual whose name 'Appealed upon the face of the publication. ten older that they might get et the real offender. He thought it in no case proper to pr0....el ....el d against Inc primer or publisher, when the real offender could be traced. lie should therefore mote, that I; ebert Stoddatt be eaLeel to the bur of the house. '* t hee mete crises in v Idols the house bud immediately come to a resolutiuti declering that the pa t ter complained of was of :5 mike:in chaotic:ter, mud then called the pal ly before ;to :la There *we 01!if r C 0 ,41-11 111 which they called the arty before them without having come to any resolution. Leon the precedent fin nisherl by the latter class of eases be ptoreeded het-muse it 'lid appear to him more reason able, lust iu iniettre atter I lie pei vim who wrote the pul,li. elltillll, and then to paw a lesolution, expressing whither it was or aas not a Meech of privilege. In making this motion, he hoped that no caret mutite would be imputed to him but is coatmen sense of thu authority of [lit lionse, stud a c ttttttt soil teeloig of the respect with which it ought to be:regained Hume:hum the country. Mr. , YEAKk:Ii —Hoes the lion. member wish Ilw title of the pubiicaituti, and the pal Uvular passages to which Ise hos eefetred, to he lead ? ai r . couft'it,NAl . assented, and handed the pamphlet to the clerk, whir lead bona it the passages oitoted by Mr. Courteuay in his speech, and also the tulle-page, which is as f a it ne ,, ; —_." A Trifling Mistake ill Thuntas Lord Erakitie'a recent Preface 414)1'0 . noticed, and I espectfolly Corrected, iu a Letter to his . rdahip, by the author of c The Defence of tbe People,, Loudon, published by ,Pawl §tadilard, 81, Strand. 7 - THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ilia COUKTEN AY then moved, lino Hobert Sloddart he ordreed la appear at the bar of the house on Monday next. The motion was seconded. • SIR FRANCIS HUH DE IT rose, He sale, th.s was a llot tier rental Lable in-toner of the assumed powers of the noose pow ers against .. ich 11e111U4 :Array h:tmelf. Only a kw eVeiiliko sur e the House had an opportunity to ex ercise it • inquisittiridl toil. bone with great advantage to the country, try enquiry into snow recent events ! hut there it a, suck course was istjudicions, as they cold not ea .on.oe on oath. There, enquiry of u useful tendency a;4• ah.ulltiolted ; hut here it . wa, to raise .trelf into n Court ..IJ usher, to b. Judge and Jury in 11, own CAW.. and to deict.e oil own monstrous u.osin... liut here out Charge was noels—.:o libel nits eslattli,urd ; the whole pamphlet nugnt to have b lead, hut instead of Ord, they mil. had a garbled extract. pu course, w..uld lower that In the opuht,oil of the people— itany thingcould low ea 11 111 the rsliniai.oss of that people. Toe pas - sages alight be o r .ve.l t.. he iru-• and correct it the w hole were ...ad : for losta , i , I', a hat asor nude rumt was HAts comemptiblc than the 4114e1.11 idea 4 4 1 4441g1111111e,er ? ‘1 hat the intim. nail sand bail been berme wiser. ed, and even moue skit 1;1 hantoon had ohs, red, that the lin occasioned all distort., ; and Seidel remarked that their privi ltrA.•s constituted the greelel4 1)1111111 111 111 1, 41• Id. Hot ir.t. 11:11e1 the malt. ? lle el I wlt.n prevented for jlehyle from aelina in a parlsewitr a.e ; the le aer Mi.! Det Oat 111' 0111 s bertha• the flouse—lbos Hill. - which hod ihrtidafett no murk d1,,4114 11111/11,.• ..ill the ernittlf.y. !) soy Ili. same tieing.? Oil 1144 tl•e, appeal to force ? The. did, and 11w) even entrini..reit ;Boum' the dun...too of unineoilly opormo• tore butor• Chat 11-mse. Hut a, Ilse upA Of that lionise the'l , " 10 1 ,1,10 , was not ex .s the. had not et evert found it to be any °deuce, he ust pioicst ;mains the in too. Mr. BANKS strongly supported the Motion. contendin g that what had been read errs ~, a . ; that it ought to be noticed; and that the !louse was hound to iii terfere ip this instance, to set itself against tile new sect of auarchy and raw that was every si hide shun iiig itself. (Hear, hear !) Lord J. RUi•ELL observed, that a more nnotiou had never hero brint,..ht foram d.— (Hear ; hear.)-- It is proposed to deal out ts siiigular itst,ir use of just e. Why was this aele, ted from a thou-mid libels %hie. were abroad, a., a ell as on their tulles i ay was the At torawi - General ro appear in air Ilouse iu others' told a third elm; to ko unnoticed ? He therefor.. rusiclnite with tnnciug, a; an ainenilinenti that Robert Siodart be did rected to at lead Jui,it.try lti. (d Piirliatneataey holiday.) bk. 1). KINN A 1141) denied that the passages wcte au incitement to a ; it stated the propt•strion that the laws, that fear alone, prevented the people from behariog ins particular manor:. Lord NUGENT said he would support the original Mo. lino. The iotertr.tl erireuce, as to the outline, showed !hest sorb individual was 4 No ort by victim for the Cl ouse to :take ut, if chose to strike. Having ascertained the &Ai t thought the Jimmie ought to deice! time Attorney-General to prosecute. Tilt lie were not lieges to compromise their pri vileges, Hum they got their seats was not time question; he wished certainly that same of them o ere obtained by other metros ; but flew there, they ought to protect the privileges, and resist such attacks. sl' I LUE.HFONC supported the Motion , and de clared the missii,„rs to be unquestionably libellous, and breach of the privileges of the House. After some further conversation, the coition' Mallon was put and carried without ir divishol ; and Mr. Studart. was therefore ordered to attend men Monday. The Searchingmfor-Arms Bill Knit% been read a second need the rensalniug Orders having been disposed of, the House adjLeurind. SATtril PAY, DtC. Ft. Thisday the House being met were summoned to Wend the Lords, where a commission was read appointing the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord ilarrowby, Commissioners, for the purpose of giving ti.e Rotel Assent to •' An Act toprceent the naming of persons to the use of arum and to the practice of military evolutions and exercise. The comnusion having been read the Lot: Chancellor pronounced tl.e Royal Assent, and the Speaker on his return to the House having announced the same from the Chair the House adjourned to Monday. FROM T►TESDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE. -411 0 - CROIVN OFFICE, DEC. 7. MEMBER peturnal to serre in this present PARLIAMENT. Borough of Cambridge.-I.teut. Col. F. W. Trench, Assistant Quarter 11a,t!•r General i 1• his 11:linty's army, in the room of the /ion. E. Finch, wl.o hat accepted tire C:tilteth Ronal - efts. - ~"' ~::-~ ... . BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. C. Buck, Sun Yard, East Smith&ld, vietualter. from Dee. 6, to Jan. 22. BANKRUPTCY SePRRSEDED. W. 1.. Chilly: o,)_ivetpool, cotton initaufactutcr. RA NKRUPTn. _ _ J. Flttcher, Ripley. Derby, dealer. Solicitors, Messri... Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. It. llolmcs, Northampton, grocer. Sol. Mr. Jeyel, Chancery Lane. . _ _ . . . .. • _ _ A. Aslat, Church Street, T.atr.beth, victualler. So). Mr. llenson & llouverie Strwt. Fleet Street. W. siltith, New Howl, St. Pancras, builder. Sol. Mr. Satin. ders, Charlotte Street. Fitzroy Square. .1. Janeey, Liverpool, goldmuitli. Sols. Messra Blacklockand Bunco. Temple. J. Bate, Hhilcyy, Stain!. millnright. Suls. 'Messrs. l'rice, V, lliams, iniiiANbitL. Lincoln's Inn. _ _ _ A. Bruce, New castle upon Tync, merchant Sole. Messrs. alesars. Marriott, Bronitsbank, and Earn. Gay's Inn Square. J. Wood mot; Gun Street. 014 Artillery Ground, turner. Soh. slessrs. Collins and Waller. Spital Square. H. Cullen, itua,ia How, Milk Street, factor. Sol. Mr. Pullen, Fore street, Cripplegate. DIVIDENDS. l)ec. 18, S. Moline, lliniterl7.;ne,rnerchant-111, J. Peel, C. Harding, and W. Willoek, Fareley, Strafford, cotton spinners-- 28, J. Harper, Fleet Stn-ei, bookseller.—/9, W. Middleton, Liverpool, merchant-29. 'T. Hadley, Biainingliarni marenant.—. 2n, 0. W. and G. liinell. Long Acre „oilmen-2s, C. If.. Jones.i' Kentish Tou n, tanner-2!", J. HarriOon Spring Gardens, tailor —IN, C. iii,hop, High Street, Soutima, liiwn draper—Ye, J. D. Gregory, Crown Street, Fin,bury Square, silk manufacturer _...t0, W. S. Mason, Colehestcr, grocer-98. W. •Wllli#llls. Anirn Corn..r, bookrtlicr—Wt, J. G. Nichols ' Moulsey , gOrrer, inerdnint--2•1, T. Sowcrby , New H 0 , ...‘. ":res t, roilliner....ett, C. Prstikerd, St. 11 , ilii. and Jacob, r,io.iri-tershire, tanner—Jan. ' ). It. Walker, Great Giinisby tii.robr, boat builder A. Knight,Wilson Strtrt, MoorEeldg. ealenderer-6, F. • A th 'Tiverton. SomeisetPile, clothier-L.lB, T. Wheeidon, y, item founder. :•_ . - - Y. 'T.77 - :•.. le CERTIFICATS to be nted Dec. 8. T. Prichard, jun. kli.stol, F merchant—J. Iforino 2 nd, Lancashire, bleacher—R. Miller, Old Fish Street, bookseller—. T. :Hatthcws, Frith Street, Soho, stationete-H. Cardwell, ls.jsam shelf Rank Mill, Yorkshire, thread manufacturer—S. White Turnham Green, elem /Her—G. Beattie, S.elford, Lancashire, dyer—C. Hodgkin, Bishopsgate Street Within, mereLant-.. I. Yate, Worcester, leather saacr—W. Mott, jun. Turbridze. Wells, cheesemorger. HIGH ' TREASON. PussToN, Dec. 4.—On l'hursday last, Henry Walden, tvlieelwright, Thomas Austin, shoemaker,- George De a hurst, reed maker, William Fletcher, tailor, and John Adamson, taslor, were brought to the House of Correction,in this town, in three post. chaiscs, escorted by a party of the 7th Dragoon Guards under Cornet Stephenny. They were ap. prehentled on Wednesday night, or early on Th u day morning, bind brought before the Rev. 'l'. I). Whitaker, L L.D. and .Joseph Fieltlem Esq. at Blackburn. Walkden and Austin stand charged with having " imagined, -ilayissAl, or intended to levy war against his Majesty, within this realm and ..itb having, it. 4 n•dt* h.. the execution of suhc devices 'or intentions, divers pikes and 'ether offers. sive weapons and arms, atop divers traitorous unit IQ.. (11600 boks, papers, letters, and writings, ••••ate.d e d in their dwelling houses. out-houses, and prein 7 .ste therennto belonging, within liladttrnrrt." The other three prison' rs, Dewhurst, Fletcher, and Adamson, are charged with having " on the 15th of November last, .at Aberghaut Eaves, near Bti.rn. ley traitorously conspired aml with o; her wielscd and traitott w. persons, te the number of ten thousand .and -upwards, and in pursuance of the said traitorous con‘piracy, and at the time and .place alowastrid, with having armed themselves with divers pikes, pistols, dubs, staves, andother offensive weis2onsounl with having thereby then and there levild war :.gainet the King, ot 'order, by force and cousin:int, to compel WA Laid Majesty to change his me surfs and Council: v at:3N to niti. midate and overawe he ..Flouttesext'fk Parliament." Upon it:vie charges t3e P.11.;0,..et0qe prespa_ remanded for a fiirther heating, Atilieh is eirected . to take place this day. Dewhirst, Fletcher, and Adamson, were fully committed last night on the charge of High Trcascn. Mr. Knight, of Manchester, has also been committed under the same charge. Walkden a;(1 Austin are are to be re-ctmveyed to Blackburn this afternoon. where they will be. allowed to give bail to aaswel• for a misdemeanour. THE KING'S HEALTH.—TLC Duko of York's Council was on Saturday attended, at Windsor; t'y eleven of the distinguished. personages out of the -twelve appointed by Parliament, viz. by the Arch. bislidp of CanttTburv, the Bishop ot.Loadon ; the Duke of Montrose, Chancellor, Lords Ar. den, Winchelsea, Macclesfield, Hcnicy, Camden, and St. Helen's. and Sir William Grant. His Ma jesty, it appeared, was indisposed two days, whicl. occasioned the meeting of the Council a fortnightN , ,, at Lambeth Palace. The nature of the King's ir.. disposition is not statect, bajova believe it was bowel coMPlaintiwhich. miss& wuch alarm. Tho alarm, fortintate4. - has been assipated by tbi: co: • lowiug • WlNDenft etf!nt s ' nee. 4 . lit . Nfaje , iy'E disorder has ontlergorte no atter:don. Hi. Ma jesty indisposed for two days, a fortnivlt since. bat hes now his regivricii his ordinary bodilj 1aa4,11. - whielt is good, ants:thrive groat aott‘ k H. HALFORD, J. WILLIS, " .. i ..414114 ' M. HAILLIII. 11. WILLIS. • W. lIIIHEIMEN, .'.zes t se"; — etttit eight days, the vicissitudes ..as--r hue been remarkable. On Wednesday, b•Oribe 4 " . • week, at S o'clt‘ral; 111 the morning, the ther ,,,,,, ior had sunk seetit degrees below the freezing point ; on Monday, at the same hour, it Stood at fifty. and by two o'clock that day, it hail risen to fifty-three; and, on Tuesday at ten o'clock, it attained the mean temperature of the whole year; or fifty-tire. .Last week as a servant-titan of-Mr. Gibson, farmer, of named George Blirtr.r., was drawing a chant( from a gun with which he ha d . been tlestaoytio s biro, it unfortunately went Mt, when the whole of the cor. • tents passed through his bridy, and caused his immediati. deal IL FlRE.—Between 4esen and twelve o'clirek on Thursday night, as the watchman was going his rounds, he discovered a fire issuing front the manufactory of Mr. James Twede, cabinet maker, Rosemary Lane ; he splmag his rift.* and gave tile alarm,. the noNltliours all assembled, and rendered all posgaile assistance ; yet fraig tie quantity of timber which it csntaiti ed the fire had gained such an Ascendancy, that nttempia to • extinguish the flanies we,se nictlOual. Severn' engines arrived, and being supplied with plenty at' water, confined the fire to the manuftetory, whi,•l was entirely burnt dowa, The dwelling-house and thoi-e adjacent were fortunatelypreserved. • lire Cit tAttittornies dll . we.e, .oh Vl' tliiesday, actively en:44ot in 4V:111461)g for pikes iu Caldewpite, in annstptenee of a story having , al,road, that sonic handryds of these p l apons had secretly conveyed thither. The scarelf was fruidess7; P . • i