The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-05-28 00:00:00

<: , 7 ~~ E Tll . ll t'.e impress service, to state merely the impression of i is mind. • Mr. BENNET rereated his Oration, *bather men within these two dais had not been impressed upon the Thames No answer beitiggiven, Mr. BARHAM remarked upon the singular dis respectshown. -'I he functions of the House were at an end if simple questions like that just put were not answered. Mr. HOBNSB,.thought such conduct on therpert of the Lards' of Ilte Admiralty _present nitEireoetiant i ed. It was Contrary, at foes!, to tto courtesy of the _Mouse, as far as he was acquointid with it.. Mt. W. DUNDAti insisted, that it was entirely new, in the practlce of the flan* 'to ask questions not relative t;;thi. rohjett of debate. Tho question, of the Hon. - Member (Mr. Bonnet) had, no relation `to the Petition of the Soble Lord. lie (Mr, Dun • des) was not to be frightened into giving an answer, but he winkld isfY the Hon. Gentleman by telling him, that he sins completely misinformed epon the subject. Mr. WYNSP, meintainen that the practice of ask ing questions for the sake . ol rendering ulterior mo tions unnecessary, was perfectly usual and of great convenience. On the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, an Aft dress wits agreed to, hir an account of the fees taken in the Court of Kachesilmt in Ireland and in the batikruntv' Office. • •.;. • 'Mr. Prilitx, gage tivitlio that on Friday nest, he • "mild mere for a Bill be amend the lash Insolvent ' Act of last year. ARKY IXTR.AORDINARIF.S. Mr. PEELE said, the these Officers had *not been there existed-a disposition than ten alootk‘of esfesdEty, . oirriesi. On • the mlitiow , ocit o . e Sims of Ave niillious 102 to provide for Exchequer 1 provided for. I r The House then resumed, dered to be received en Wt The Wool Bill was read dered to be committed on ' Mr. Alderman •AI'HINS draw the Bakers' Bill, reading, and'bring in a better .GRANTS TO LORDS LYN" RFS' The Report* of the Committee the Prince Regent, relativ Lynedock, was received • given to bring in a Rill lon the Message respecting I op. On the question that ' Committee be agreed to, Mr. W. WYNNE , to make any observations grants in the thin slate in , He was 'happy to have prevail Ministers to consent to render bat he thought that it was, still inadequate to the 5 , which it was attached. En dock, there was a paternal _ Which Went to the iiippet of he said that this Sias rapt' Asp ford; bet that gallant in chief of the, Portugueie land in Portugal, dignity. Lord Hill had land being one of thirteen distinguished tlieeneelews in try, and one of silkielflind children, could istiect no from his family estate. , meritorious Officers were Union with Ireland. Before Wet i t cers were made Peers, It was ailleiwary 20001. a year from the Englich Eichegner, as mods from the Irish: 'rhis - ssei the cue isr the instance of Admiral Rodney, supposed to be opulent. Lord Country from his earliest youth--41 S • n pain, and he hoped the Righ tleman opposite (Mr. Rathurst I postponement, .as he should not tions in the grant in the thin 'tat then was. ' The Hods. went into,a Committee of Supply. Mr;;AttiIIITUNOT moved that the sum of • 5480,131.41 x.. 1041. be gianhed - for defraying the or dinary (*.spruces of sOtto army. Mr. LIENNET, to a4voieestarcely addible in the Gallery, nisde some enquiries as to the meaning of srune of the items in the estimates of the year. He enquired what was the reason of the grant , proposed 'to Lord Bopthersli of 10001.? There were an hun. drewpersons %ho would. have been glad of the retie aim', wit hoot putting the country to any expence.-1 The father of Lord Blirghersh Tiad been employed in :tiverallurrative offices, and there could he no Onion 1 , •• . for giving the Noble' Lord an extraordinary remu. e • .•tii ti *eraon. ~„.,..,,,,.., .. ~ . * - • ..; Ist,i, ' Mr. ARBUTHNOT , said that Lord Burghersh .. Aiid hem pitched on as a ,proper person for the misid ' - . 'sing, in which he was employed, and that there &mit! ' -10 no s tiouht hut that he had exatoted it. A thee. . .. Ali pounds had been advanced by the Government .....: iC.r his.extiaordinary expences, for which its would . . laftelwa.rds . atcoont. : • - ; i .'''. . • Mr. .RENNET wished to Won' t ' . whitkei.the pay. , 4.eot of the extraordinary expensed `of officers, am. -*'-: V.Ofati in these missions, had been cestolsary. 01! . i Ifni ther occasions ? :'• lir, ROM NSON mid, that Lord ilurghersh had • . been subjected . to expences not to . be paralleled on - any former occasion, tiering the latter part of his mission, owing to difficulty of procuring horses for the conveyance of his baggage, the allied army i being then in 'hostile country. _. - , - Mr. GOULDURN stated, to satisfy the Hon. Gentleman, that as to the practice of Government towards Officers employed on special missions, that 'it was the constant rule to indemnify those Gentle., men for their 'extraordinary expences, and for the purpose of defraying , these charges, a sum of money was usually advanced. Oft his there was an example 'in the case of General Hype, in the same estimates, who, having been sent on a special mission to the . Prince Royal of Sweden, received 10001. of which he was to account for that part which might net have been expended by him.. The same was done with re. •pect to all officers of similar rank employed in si- ! miler missions. • . Mr. II EISKISSON wished to know what would be the amount of the army attraordinerier . of the current year ? As he understood it five millions had., been already taken on account. Mr. ARBUTHNOT said, that what the amount of the litarttordinaries of the year would be, k was not possible to say. It was not fi ve millions. which had been already. taken On account, but three mil- i 'liars, to which the 'sum then deteitnded was to be added, which woild make the Whole taken on ac 'Count 6,350,0001.• • ——' '' • Mr. TlElttlintwisted far. *tie explanation as Ito the mode of *mit* filib'illet flqinVilli. 1 Mr. LONG in .arisinilt . aback that it was not for .the services of the Oirrelt year, .as his lion. Friend Mr. Huskisson) end f Right •Hon.-Prent. (Mr. ' dome))"' seemed to COttativi that the present vote •was proposed, hut for the extraordinary expetiftelt of 'the last year. The nominal amount of the. dimities for the last year was 22 milli° a, ink of this , - - -- -414.miltions were to be dedeettd, which. had been ---Nepplieit-W4se-te.etilar aervl4,4 She . *neg. Mb" *rose froM the circumstance tat ail - bills -drawn' by •: . life Commissary-General were rooked under the head - , • • , • ari. , kreny . Itittraertliuttries. - _ ‘. • - Orr JOHN NEWPORT wished to know the pour { •‘ • vase of the grants far sums paid by Gen. Sontag, and on account of Sirl.*Brock. • Mr. GOUI.IiURN .. stated, that when during the revolotionsiy war llollattd was occupied by, the ~ Yrench troops, several Dutch Officers had taken sir. •foge in England, to whom an allowance was made • throogit General • Sontag. When Hollend lariiiie FRENCH PAPERS, 61- \ free it was signified to these Officers that the pen. — 4 _ ; . .... . . sion would be discontinued, but as many of the . PARIS, MAY 23.—His Majesty bas,lssued an or. pensioners were without the means of returning 'to dinance, by which the dignity of Admiral of Franc► . their ow n country, It - was resolved to arlvsn?e one ' -is conferred on.the Duke d'Angoaleme. By the sass! year's pension to them for that purpose, which was Ordinance, the Vice-Admirals at present *nada Ilse Ithe item alluded to. As to Sir Isaac Brock, when, specters-General of the 'Oasts of. th* North, of the , that gallant OSOr died, he had not been invested , Ocean, the Mediterranean, and Liguria, ere in fu with the Order of the Bob, which had been granted! tare to be called First impectors.Ceoneral. of Ma. to him. MS relatives, however, being desirous that!:tine, and to continue in the enjoyment of their pre .all possible honours should be paid to him, wished ' sent pay, honours, and prerortites. 'that the arms of the B eth should be placed on the The Dur" ' Betar)- ' , tomb voted by Parliament. The item alluded to 1 ~ • vas the amount of fees paid to the Officers of the land Order. • i Sir J. NEWPORT wished to call tits attention of the the Government to the Irish Adjutants of Militia, lery, who, he knew not why, were not placed on an FraL._ equality, in point of pay, with the same Officers in Messieurs the English Militia. He hoped that, in the half-pay Interior • arrangement the case of this class of Officers would and . be aossitlerod. . .1 !'A'!'. ri AN ipanish, 1.. Papers, are alto received as usual. The ado Sages - far Mr. BATHURST lamented of the Hounitrable Gentleman not heard by more Members. portionment of pensions to their private circumstances, a cacy. The House, however, for its satisfaction, that the ar posed to Lord Hill had been of his family, altholigh their . ,prescribe limits to the liberality , el Was certain that Lord Lynedock differed in his air► eumstances from 'the other -ohjecti of these grants, • but it was hard to say how the cases of - Lord Beres. lord and Lord. Hill were diffeept. He knew not . • -- o p-- Yesterday the LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, Wit what grounds thaw were for s4)posing that Lord , Beresford would: preserve, in time of peace, the i LIVERY of Lo ndon, in Common Hall assembled, de. 'emoluments 'off the Portuguese command. It was termined to petition the Legislature against the preci. ant requisite, he thought, that the Peerages con.; pirate and unreflecting measures it threatens to our., (erred on meritorious officers should he supported in. sue on the vitally important subject of the Cor la muck splendour as hereditary dignities. i Laws. The Petition goes no further than to pray Sir J. NICHOLL thought the 20001. a.year in.,_. aufficient to Support the dignity to which the gallant T suot on a subject, inrolving - the comfort atialliPpl. officers had 'been raised, and hoped thejnekter would ness of the whole . population of the country, th .be reconsidered. .., prosperity or decay of our manufactores and cum .. Mr. WYNNE' stated MAI, that he endenteed coerce; the permanence and security of ournatioda Lord Beresford hadieceired a territorial grant from. revenue , ; and the. maintenance of our navil :ape F Portusal. , ..... Mr. BATHURST and Mr. WYNNE-explained. Mr. BABINGTON said stew words in a voice aatat collect . the necessary information before i il.l. inaudible in the gallery: . ;: • .• .rioritA i kthe Legislature should pause before it en .determines. There is so much good sense 'and mo J Sir J. MACILIttMI thought that **Vie means deration in this Petition, which speaks indeed th •of supporting-the dignity ifught to be attached to the; sense of nearly' the whole country, Ad whitlil: Peerages of thegaitant officers, as. their families i will b e re i n f orc ed by similar f r om were thereby excluded from many literalist proles. ~ . • every part of it, that it would be a libel upon! mons. Mr. WYNNE then begged Mr. Bsehorst to con-' Parliament, to express a 'doubt of its object being sent to a postponement, which the latter objected to, : attained.- It asks only for delay, till the question is! as he had no authority to give such, consent, and as ; more thoroughly investigated and better understood. an addition to the grant would be passible in some All those, therefore, who are conscientious sol.: stage of the Bill. • porters of the proposed system, who , are intent, es . The SPEAKER. gave his opinion that it would be ' disorderly to introduce any increase of the grant in elusively; on the public advantage,and are unswayed the progress of the Bill, without a new Message, by any considerations of a private and interested na- Committee, and Report'. • , Ore, must be in favour of the Petitioners. None can Mr. BA.THURST then. consented to a postpone. resist their equitable demand but those who support ment. ' -.• ~ '. • the measure from motives they, do sot venture to The consideration of the Report, eir the Re. , 'avow, whilst they are conscious it Will not bear: 1 port on the Message xespadiuglowr4 liar axed for Wednesday. -.1.: • - -,.- , , lii strict iriiestigatioi ind enqtley thi s lialtioners The Excise Bill and the Maldstone.Geneve am, end the whole country so loudly and justly demand. went through Committees, aid ,#ere ordered to be It still be a most conclusive proof against the mea reported on Wednesday. ... ..:•.,, The House then adjourned to V 4 • . sure , if its advocates shrink from investigatior& • 'j • • AS* - .' • • ihy "lho country would be more universally and power.* .__._.__..:; • .' fully impressed with the conviction, that the intended • i alterations are framed not with a to the benefit of the nation, bet of one class; by the Petitions for delay and farther enquiry - being opposed," than by any evidence, however strong and indubitable, which.; enquiry could • produce., •TO this criterion we are I happy to see the measure and' Its advocates exposed. Its character and theirs, will now be equally de. •tormined, if they obstieetely persevere ; and so etertnined, that the most' inveterate prejudice, or 1 most shallow comprehenitfen; will be, unable to entire that enquiry will be Jure. If its friends resist en-' conclude that their conviction is Thus, by resisting enquiry, they moit Intel ligible and decisi ye con. measure, and of their own 'motives is pretended that to increase the the object of the regulations.— theirelfect o Is safficiently evident; ‘rA sl te l t * * q / 41 4 .. "‘ * NT4 • T nticipation thetrice "r, many parts of the , countis, Ij fther urged in support of tt‘ fba ! t 4 by giving the home groner the'rritt* t ;et, agriculture is encourage 4 Are Obeli to be produced. -uth. The red.uodance or do* .nnual crop would affect the lring the year nfhOti it occ,arred, beyond Any ju‘st proportion or diminetion of the average its irregularity is subject to *correc: ition of fakirs corn. The whos e . ' to the eilitratotorill be great tr if lopoly or the haunt market, whet produce is below, than when it is above has these a direct interest itircheCk% it ferti)ity, of the soil. A iiinited igh % .price s suite litolierpose better lily of produce, which he is row of at &cheap rate.. .When the Eng. dread (he competition of 14,4 rdy that:hitlnterest blends itselreitj, of thesountry ; it is then only.thlit t to produce largely, is ordartoiet. •Utler from kis 'frame. A freertreAeor . both importetien end . experiteslig inced s beet promote the general -end ire of the country. The free - expet. d• *rm.—Merchants will oily biers, in some foreign market s * . lister than in this country, :as- ti y expetums of freight, insurance s besides. a considerable Foal to expence of freight on so bulky. and the chance of injury dories peet, that its price must bi,s* 'and, before any considerable to. '1 WS. t (ore, the advantage 014 the mark* let it not also be permitted to er t :lude the core all other nations from our owe. An analogy is attempted, 444" . :40tablished between the import trade in corn Male manufactured goods; , t if," say the lattd-oviOetee; the monopoly of tbi -home market is allowed to itte maeufacturer; why should - not the • corn Brewerenjoy the same -ad . The answer le otrrloes ! : Natitie.. hes given to thecore..grower an advantage in the hoots market, which the manufacturer does not possess, lilanufecttired goods may be transported froin*iit , country to another; at an expence hearing overytteell propeition„ . indmitl, to their whole price: Timicavev, therefere l 244l. .011101 r . A legal. equality between the corn .grOwerin.d.the manufacturer its thiarespect, s l o,alti, be *ion' *ad' effictite partiality' towards the formtr. Thissis not, hOwerer, the only difference befiltolitlio - tstro e4aseea . .Tha.,ossuetiantaving keliomt is. ntOrelelipetO tender, it is more ssUsceptithiof , and requires,' snore absolutely,, artificiiteM couragement than the" agricultural Tite.agric4kite of acountry cannot fait, ivhitst itstihnufactoo:elo. main in a. state of prosperity, for .th* encovitot. roeilt s therefore, of agriculture, nothihg oee lit . the end be to efficient as the eacouragentekt [44'4 manufactures and commerce.: Nothing boWever cats be more evident titets tOat proposed ebest ments are put 4n force, onr manufactures and torn merce must languish, if oot expire. We .cannistifte. duce an article • so cheap as other Countries, it our workmen are to here double the weirs given to theiri. If bread is double, the price hire that it is in other countries, the wagOisisust be double, os the people must starve. The tOosequeoce is then dear and inevitable, forligners will 'not buy' our goods, because they wilt- lis-able to buy them cheaper of other States, Where tine .egriCultural interest is not artificially encouraged Itt - ‘the eipenee of all other classes of the people: We received Paris Papers this morning to the *do instant, from which the following are extracts. Die 'patches were also received yesterday from Lord Cas- TLIIREAGII, dated Tuesday, which"' lecording to re port state, that Preliminaries of Peace were to its signed the following day. It will 'be seen by the . intelligence contained in the French Papers, that this • terms of peace were supposed to be agreed upon, bat nothing of an official' nature had transpirel respect ing the conditions. The accounts 'have been of sa l ' :contradidory a nature for soniellose etiat.tt would .he. useless to speculate Capon' them, as a few days fifth wi in all probability,•put us in possession of ih said that ; Emperor of lkossta and King of PRUSSIA intended to tot out for tbis counkry,on Monday next, The 'needs frail Spain eontained its these Papery-item,' that- the toot pie ot. litottild 'had a "avid ,in &roe v •Of-Vesist4 et, and NMI tho most dittingited . Withers' of the CAlci, and 'tftvO•of the Connell° . f,Eloieitcy; hid:bees — elonalr' - imprisoned. .The4iotent ceodtah of, FORIVit'AIAt unless 'Some unknown grounds 'existed .fee-it i twist "excite universal reprobation, and whateveilite may ultimately attend him, he will not be an ',Object 41f pity. The Inhabitants of the Spanish capital pay, - far the' moment, .be overawed ; but fliers is little doubt that their dispositions, as well as those of the people generally, aredecidedl v in your of the Cortes and .Constitution. We think. the Kura will yet be either brought to reason or de. po,Sed, and that without any interference on _out unless in the way of mediation. Any -military steps by our Government, with a view to n 40 4. the affairs of Spain, would be liable to so much niis. construction, and state so mich jealessi t that it '9 whi).•wat st• titir dm* -- - .77 " . ' " - - rd Hi" is wow tar,co of an Eoensng Paper are therefore obvioui h—in Teuten, In Atvot• for country circulation. Right Honour**. An- , Mails. Due tit) would con. l" Ile. ; 1 ...40.... ...... France ... ...6 0 Nano ,'., • .1 not propose toy *hr.' /.: /i•• • • ' Gotieubwo ~ . ... • ~, . f . state its *Web 'the me.' • .- - : !MICE . or, wipel .. eats DAY AT a'.411 crct.ocx. A that the . o pant ' ' India Stock lan (Alit. , Wysins4 s perrent. Red. 6611 India Bonds 10 11 p . He thought the 0 .1 V:r`Cc'eeZ's.e.i7l l 67iii Itschenuer Bilis 46 p ()minim officers, on pc fount o fintr Cent.. Nava Pay ditto a matter of Flat 4.11 -4,sota. Ann. 16 3.161. • Consols for Am 68elle, 9., should , be Wormed , — •:-...-- _....::-.2,...1....—.—"L„--; of the grant pr M O; eoLsith the amsei THE STATESIC4N." - twoderitip. Should n et ' ' . Jr ' os .99i0 -- _vir- ility, of the Hoes?. ft • . dock differed In his air. LODON: • • objects of these gratits f • " ' SATIIIDA . I4 *AT 214 1814. sue mom anallow wi The Duchess of I3Ourbon arrived here last Sunday. doubt. We are The Prince of Orange, the sew Severely of Hot- n4l, has also arrived in Parr. fatal to the measu The Committee charged with the preparallea of qulry, ' we *west con e Constitution assemble - every day at the Omint4- similar to ours. Ti ry, under lb. Presidency of as Ch° or .° 1 would pronounce the ranee.. The three Commissioners of the r are, usrasticu u the Mal lessieers the Abbe deMontaquieo, KW of th e' airier ; Ferried, Director-General el tlto oats; t° "PPett td Beugnot, Director-Geoemi et lb* Po . of ears is sot I It 4 lei s ued e Maggie Atterabl e illejbet•llde wield be tJ II 1 • . . * disparity of lfie pay of Corte's was dissolved . on the 11th at Madrid, that se- ,for by their antictpa seen overlooked, and that viral of the *embers five been arrested, •thet- the been increased, in a quarter. Ills' fArtl lin the Government to pet atitherity of King has been univerealty•Oco . 4. I ll y . . . „ , , . !tire, that by givtng sikned,„ : andl that Ferdinand Vitt !militia solemn en- . r„ v ti ~ lid. .7. ; . .- t , ;,, . iieni the 1 4 Ak Into Madrid. t e Lvitar*GToir, ~141, , Ti: ilihabitan6 of the Islei,of Frarfce and .BOur- of the home market *Mon were then ,voted on, who havirconstantly prayed fin' the restoration greeter quantities a Bills outstanding sad en- of the goes* of Bourbon to the throne of their fa- reverse is the tri thera, will regret that their distance will delay the ficiency of the at ed,'and the Report s was or- heppittesa they would feel in-expressing their satis- price of corn duri Vednesday next. ; • faction to their legitimate Sovereign the Father of the a ad a second time, and or- Ftinch. They never copceeled 'th -' ettachment. in a degree far Wednesday next. i ... •' .. "ls..tints:. • . *lima 0 • e encrease I NS obtained leave to with . ' - /rfot I. „......-_, ,_, • Ltill,____.„._ . ••. y, unless this which stood for a seco lirffilf •r . • , 0 vane .ervice was • aile d don by . the invoke otter Bill iu its stead. I baited for. the virtuous Monarch, who fell a via, • returnaln money I NEDOCK, HILL, .AND fiat to the love .he bore his , people. These faithil . 11114-sne enjoys the, incmc i iFORD. . ' • fail Frenchmen, amidst the confusion and embarrass•t Immittee on the ittessege of i nvent of Revolution, averted from their country by; the general produc t live to the grant _to Lprd I their firmness and wisdom, the miseries by which th 4 the average. Ile h and agreed to and leave 'other colonies tad been lost. The agents of the Es; .ing the exuberant accordingly.. The Reiret ' teem ti . e Directory, who bore the barbarocur'orders'fow quantity - , at a higl ng Lord Hit was kht the fulfilment of the Decree of the 16th Pluviose I than a larger quanii; hat the Resolution Wt 4 year 4, were driven from their territory, and yr . • . , pelted t o dispose of , I embarked to be transported to a country where the' • . said he was sorry tolteett : rue would be powerless. The union, the love which l i .lish farmer has to I ns •reipecting the pro ; the Colonies bore far their country, their devolici I corn, it is then only i which the-Renee then we to the family of Bourbon, will find their reward i . thegeneral interest ( pottei trevailed with 'his Majesty' .rtharostoration of a Government which will secu !he has a tem tioq ender thoanneity perpeyo4',ltippitress and tranquillity to ill Frenchmen, and 141 ....5... . . . RBI theforew ore' M I inlhe case Of Lord 11,10, I ir their families, by 'restoring to them "a virtuous Moj support of .the dignity . Ilt4 ,;,narch, the tather and protector of hie petiple. -; a corn, as it respeits I In the* case of L t ord toe- 1- 4 , F e RONTIIMS OW SWITZERLAND, MAT is.—Thei .would;weare convi ial estate of ',nine amount, French Dooattiers have returned to the •frontiers of permanent welfare, t t of the dignity. It sight -Sseitierlattd. The merchants of the .commercial tation can seldom Ike .lasn sip Lard Beres. :towns of Switzerland, however, have profited by i , export it when it bi *ca. hewing: the el:meeting • their. ftbsence P by carrying on all kinds of tradawith, price so much big eat troeps, and * grind is . France . , ibe enabled,e,o support h 1 / . I no advantage, of this , Wad' ;C A C 7- 7 - ------- 7 - &c. and to . leave childien, of *honk 411wehi -env Readers of the SrArsser.dar are respectful) . pay the very bear] themselves. The exi in the service if 'ffitili coon , * informed, that since the intercourse took pla . nin di ty as enesit - ai . td received at the STATESMAN OFFICE • • lately died, 104141 sevene • betwe ess France and the French Paper .England, the passage are to g no addition tie iiiilprten ,el regularly , are I: l ow indee d in Ent The pension, isiissinii Ice, • ,2: i a nd tee mportant part of their contents publish motnin : .terest have, therefor re much reduced lino the! .. - ~ . . . • „,. -. C a " . nnliy,' in audition to :mud appears in age !fore *at time, whoa 016- was aiitomw . ta'apla Shoo , Pipertr ic erhich arrive the preceding night. in the world, both , l augligh Fichisti?a,a,wd .. hildf.. - 27*-Datek - German, Spanish, and other .Foreigt elude the Cori of I ~~ i % • , • • A Due t i I, A. . 0 ~.: + • • • 1 • • . , k, 1 • tr.t 1.• ~:r-.