The National Register. — London, England, 1819-12-26 00:00:00

DEC. 26. numey belonging to Sniturli its the Exchequer. The t.uh• ji et lA*llll Or gs Cid 111111011811 re, 41111 ail po.•ibie tß./rt+ had Leen made to 1111/Clllp the 11111 10 be made a. siei lect it • ; hot he did nut wilh to press the Bill with pe cnhar given, and Bill ultiorwarils hiulaght •Itt. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-tnorrow. . ... . . . . . BENNETT care notice, that Rl'lel the hu lidaye hr 111•111$1 moce lit It are to la in n Bill to incapacitate the holders of certain sioeciiie Mikes trout Marla% seats in that lonise. la t. CALL HAFT ask oil whether the Noble Lord would pittance the Government mists( r to the Matochester -goat-ales letter ut Jots l.&t•. Lord CASTLEREAGH replied in the negative, the jtliiilstera having laid all the letters, ace. un the noble which they deigned necessity, :mil on n I I th e y grounded the proceedings before Pat tiailmilt. Mr. I:AM:RAFT gave suptier, that oiler the holidays be should move for the piuductimi of auch aura a it. — (I fear, hear!) Lord A. HAMILTON forego move for the revival of • the Couta•ittee or the Scotch Burels—vt motion to which lie understood there would he no ohjecti 0000 . Ilear.) He saidt• former ennui, ies had wan-acted all that lw had maintained re'Petlin4 the id sere and ditgiti in. :chutes ill the Scotch Burghs, especially the ham ful ineilite of self•rlecliuo. 11 hush t h e t en d enc y to perlselillite what, Ver was wrung and corrupt. Ile Jeined non, as lit ha l duce before, that his ohject was Parliamentary Refit! in ; it w:is to correct the abuses in the Burghs, If Return resulted from a camellia of abuses, it would privet e l collate, Iv. net directly I ati el surely he was uot io he denied improvement, Incense st II (either improvement might he the collateral results Ile concluded with asinine, that the itoyal Burgh Petitions be referred to a Select Cominittie. _ Mr. DUNI) %Si said, hail It not been fur the obsersst lions of the Noble Loll, he mould not bare tronlikd the House t bat in con.equelice of Cirmer success, the Node Lord hod ant quite se.ttit on on the %abject. (A lanah.) He mu•t den), that the enquiries had exactly proved all that Ike Noble Lord had funnily thought or uttered It "W.lll not sold that Reform uts ‘ ht not he accomplished col laterally, U nut directly; sad dill the Hottae intend os much? .... Lord CASTLEREAGH said, as there was to be an ob j•etion to t h e Committee, it was useless to tight a report not yrt made. After remarks from Mr. J. P. Grant, Mr. Forbes, &e. the motion was e=rred to,and the Committee appointed. The Neteryvaper Snoop Duty Rdt War re-Ci;iiiiiiitted, after remarks from Mr. Primrose. tic. Martio.otc. and rho Report was ordered to he received to-suorrovs. The Libel 801 l war afterwards read a seenati time, and ordered to be committed tn•morrow t after &ghee% the other Orders of the Day •Iseiog disposed or, the House adjourned. WEDNESDIti, OEC. re. Sir H..P.% RN ELL Lure notice. that after the holiday' !teemed,' fuhmit n series of resolutions on the sultlect of the Public Income sill Expenditure, similar to those propte.ed by bun I:14 tvsioll ; :tad shut tii-torirrow he bileleili move fir some returns re,,arding the Expenditure fur the Army, INovy, &c. I'HILLINIORE moved fur leave to bring in a Bill to aincad the Act of Geo.' I. celled the Marriage Art. M A 1 I'll EST Kit• PHOC EEDI NGs. Sir R. WILSON presented* petition from ,w individual, slanted Cluster, complaining thut bath hi- shoulders were 41r.located, one urns briiken,Ae. ti% the violence of Au,;. 16, at Manchester ' and ituplureini the Mon. e to institute emptily so to the Auth ors and executors of EUCiI iolet.ce.—Read and ordered to be prickled. _ . . Similar pet.; ions were prevented rr different Individuals, tly Lord J. Rtu►e!, Mr. P. Aluivit, Mr. Ricardo, and lvtr. tiraltnits. Read, and ordered to he primed. r. A LRCM) NI mowed fur Artemis of sums belonging to the Suitors in the littehiqpier, tic. lie • plained that Rhin tot considerable importance were Waugh. in regard. tig the eteliequer, &c. When he had apprehended, in common with tit hers, the measures en..neeted with particular °Writs utily, would be brought loess aid before Christlatti. The CH INCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER flail, he expresski Mated that lie should wit ' new, the Lilll turii rii till after the hollidayt.—(Hear !) Acrouotg ordered: Lord CAsTILit EAGII moved, Omit the Amendment* of the Lords on the fzeilisionis Meetings 41iii be agreed t 0.... Motion carried, and the BM sent Nick to the Lords. Lord J. RUSSLI.L asked, %lather there hut tiny truth, in abr het' chid po- , ..e”ed oome natives of Porgn, that it as the intention tor Government tcrteud them nut of the count.) under, the kiwu 4et Lord CAS ri.EgEMIli said, he mist (tensile giving nu Al" Met ne W what were the iateatasse , of Cavereinsrul. Mr. W. PARNELL postponed. 1111 after the Iris motion revecting the Catholic Clergy. Mr. C. GRA NT 104. k UCC3%IIIII to yM • ll'Vrs that the Iran °guiltily which ss:t• prrtervrd in Ireland tt as on int to the co-operative and ehriatiaa exertions of this portion of the clergy. Oster, hoar!) FIN kNCE ACCOUNTS. Mr. lel IBERIX moved " fur AI:el/MUM of the Revenue since J: ttttt vrv, distio.ruishing England. Ireland, and the Onafters.” "Thal there he returns tif the printers. of Ilse new duties imposed in 1619, to the lale•t pigtail Ilia the saute coal) he made up," and " Eor further Accounts, oboes wing, that it slow appeared, that V3llOBBl. had been received to defra) ti.e inter et of loans raised in'lblS nod 1419, to the amount of near bitty millions. 'And as to the pink advances, lie apprehended, that the Bank sins now 4,090,0001. tn•..e thou ever in advance to the Omen,. ationt. There might be some ressons fur moving for ecrounts -of the deficiencies of the consolidated loud, and how the some were mode up." Tho►e n..il other accounts were then ordered to be laid. before the Ilionte. Lurd CAST I.ER EACH moved the third waiting of the ew:poper Stump Duties II Ou Cot inoti.ut uu exceveivrty long debate took place. ehiehl.ul.l till pat too tielfick, o tiro Str4U,Clof orr ordered to withdr.en, and .1 divotion took lance, a hen there opeare4 . . For lie clause Agatiabt It IPI2 Majority . The ATTORNEY GEN ER AL, then prupn.rd a claim - by way of rider, " that ;my thing in the prtsent Bill Amild 'to carotid or be cuastruul to eAtcu,l to th: pawlicritiou of THE NATIONAL REGISTER. any omit in parts or smatters, provided that more than tan ear: had elapwd since the a igitnil publirot ton of Ilse t%oi 1., and provided also thal mien work had not Originitil) IN•ru in ports or sin.ilbers."l his diem! was ait hout opposition. The Rill was then poised. AND SEDIFIDUs 1.114 LL BILL. Mr. W. 5111 1 . 11 wishi d In IVA the Noble Lord (t astir rea;.;ll) ahelberit oat 1111.41de:I thus Ihe pen: , lt) of banish ment, anent aimed iu the %saw to he left to the di►crrl of the court 1):•fore which the route aas tried, or a hello r it aa, for vele ) Cal ; fur areordiog to the Bill, as It 00 ,'and, the bani , laurnt might be fur life. Lord CASTLEREAGH edited, Ih.t with respect to the punishment of tramportiiiillll rt•tu n t,o.n banish ment), it was intended IWO it SJIOIII.I be only fu. seven Ina that the penult) of banishment OM the second conviction for asi•ditious libel) should resimiti as it ..as, Mr. W. SMITH.—TIIeo the Noble Lord means to have it iiiiilerhood 114 b.tn,..liiiicot for life. Lord CASTLEBEAtiII ulisetved (as was understood iii tlie gallery), that it was to be for life. (Bear, hear, from the opposition.) The Noble Lord then towed the order of the day fur the !louts• resulting itself into a committee on the 11111. The older atilt. day hating hetn read, his !airship moved that the Ilinite %WHIM then go odu the cm 1111 l Mr. WWI: till AM objer ted to going ion a CattiliWilley out s r important a measure at that lute limos ito lbw 11:0111:114, (ball paal too.) Lord CAS I LA:ILEAC:I4 observed, that tteluid conceived it to have brim modeist 1111 l I tin.' the 11.11 should ea Ilaoucli Ihr cowl .e be 'averted lu-morro o , aud eisa third tune on A ronverrat 1111 l then took plata-beta erts Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Calmat, 'Ale. licouel , Mr. Brougham, 'old %Ir. J. P. Gram, the result of whorh was, that the Bill nits 'ordered to be committed on Thmsday a oth the understandona, th .1 the report should he reee.ved nn the same clay, in order to have it rend a thlodtime om li , idays The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Bootie adjourned at three o'clock. DEC. 'At two o'clock the Di poly liviier of the 111 tt•k Rod, Mr. {Joanne, summoned the li..use to intend in the House of Peers :o hear the Ru)3ll Abt , l ssssss Siun to certain Rills—the SPtlitions leetieigs' Prevention the Cotton Factory Bilk, &r., The SPEAKER did not resume the till half past four. CONVEYAN(7EttS. Mr. LYTTLETON ro'e In move for leave to bring hi a Bill In prevent unskilful prison. from aelit.g as Colt veyasteero. It Witi a ;hullo,' ',initial. 10 aah.ti lie made 14st Seashut ; and the toeporiance of the 1111.itit,S C010..0 , - 11106 transfers °lira tovulaitsg 1111111V11 pi uptrty, the House oast be well aware of. Mr. P. Otte.ENl ELI. observed, that Le perceived this Hill was relcula It_d in Arercioe the influence of At torneys—an influence that nal alleady Antßeiently great In the eonetiy—he should cat! the pilaw Om tte us t 'tun of the House to the solkiret. Mr. LiITLIF.TON (111 , 11C11, that the fill nonld have no such Ake( ; that it wits • .o,teil to tid the lou . nity of the welt part of A tiot (ley& ; and that it was eat estidited to " puree" the ptulessiou, though iu degree.—Notion agreed to. AIX-1.44 IiAPELLE TREATIES. Mr. HU 111 --- of (vanes were to be paid by the French Government to the Allies as restrunetaitun for losses, dm. recording to the Atit-la • Chapelle Treaty of 1818, wished to know what had be come Of the one-Mirth, being upwards of one million stair hag, which was to beavaiyable for onr public service for the current year. Also what hod become of 6,100 francs in Rentea, to be paid ander the said Tieaties. There were vs, ions 1111110111 s on the sob:sect—he wished to know what had become• of the mites t but if an stye' s would inconvenience Government to sta.e• w but hail bre..lllo of certain Vitoria Secutitiesokc. lie should nut In • .1 a hie Au suoluala. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that than roe!' recur • a Sluiid ill the names ar Slit Cala. alloluitHir f,, alai therefore the A trumits would be Haeletus. As to the luayteutual.4 by fist. French Gusrnmtrut , they h a d been applied to I horn: titications in the Netter. lands ; and but for inch payments we should beer had about a mil lion to rake to make good what • •by Treaty this • canutty had undertaken w'4lo. Mr. HUME tlimight, as the Rinnies had been paid, the Noose oneht to knots what had become of iliesn,especiall) of the tom Itt of the 167 millions of francs payable to this 4:wittily. LIBEL BILL. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that the linitae do go into a Cumulilire au the Warplit mous Libel l'i e velation Bib% Ali. WAN AI. opposed the Dill. It an: ohnotioui measure, ceoitaining est.jection.tble provision•, p tient:at) that imposing hunishuient fur Pecand offence v. Li.lnslum•ut Mid hero moisturise' !tithe common lon f. r inure than tOO )e.aist and it hadvnly since been resorted to in cases of ver high offences, and us an ex post facto pun shuient. The 34th of Elio. had been alluded In in pr.viems eleh.itis, The 37th of the King after retinas' 'eerie outrages, was passed. lint only fur three )enit iturutiun ; and he nulled the 'Kmiec to remember that fact. He feared the • were•at out to plunge them isigmet ditheulties. There was a 4 ivil death as aril as it real dyads ; and alien ti 1114111 u.. baw•leed fur life,• when he way expatriated, would be continue to owe alle giance to the English Sus ridge) ? (Hear). Aiiel a hat would be the fate of such a not'. children (Hear, hear.) The punishment would he imposed at the option of the • Judge, and its it was so severe, was there not fear of it remaining ti dead letter on the statute hook ; but if 1101 •d, did the limb , ' call to mind a lent court circumstances mizitt Attend she banisiimmt of a respectable mail, When the sedition.. libel of to day might Mily be a political *gulls to-morrow. - trusted Ike Lew Odicer► would take, these einsiosstauccs iltlo conbitleratinu. Mr. DENNI AK objected to the mcdsore being gnaw into at all. The of perdu acre wrong, and none of them had been answered x mitred, so far Aunt rile necrt•aity of the Bill being proved, he thought fart& sie.tmed a contrary opinion. The dieereet conddrt °Maw °them. aa• uu r•ir argument either nay--the epteition w.tc, wbeiltrr the ex isting lair was not milcient to, pusibh she Imola-mom. non eons, !dined of. Ho believed it• am, sad the 'eyrie and dettrill Ott stillerlCCll in recent iied.iiires 'mired :,s lie lamented that whence so deeply the liberties of the wry; add had to been loud, fluor )rase ago. (h.' his Learned Friends (the Attorne).(itmetal aao Selicitor. General) 'NU Give been wade the ittstiutnenta to br 421 forwa.d such Bills, he should have felt disposed to in ill the in in a Ito ventiord to imiuuati• a, nn a •h. (Cheers.) Ile ridiculed llte idea thot the ineamr.li were ClllCUlatt . d to improve the bias, and depirraied the idea of • judyiulc mcu as likely to commit °Miters before they had a elite,. a Hind, e,intended that the 11111, if it risscil, %mild be mist in its tendency r and what ads to prevent Inc uupurtation of libel,—twit a mild thea be ensicr thus 141 limit them. Mete ails non cireWaithig for instance, a Noble Load's BYthies) lines. printed by (Salienaul, la Paris, a inch ue pruun•r in this country a °old punt. Mr. lan Lord B many, hi!. J. Smith, WO several (Sher bleinbris followed, after a hwh the quest nit aas cart led without any dnuiun , although the gsllc y awl cleared for SUCII pUrpnbc. The !louse having resolved it-elf into a Committee on the Bill, several verbal amendments acre uuade uil the motion of the Amalie , -G,iieral, but 1111 : u urudm••ut proposed by Sir dames AClntosh, in a most eloquent aisti arsuasencit ive spe.•eh Was negatived. The Rol is 'lli its amendmenis, a as ordered l n be cligrus.cd, and be read a tiara lime 4111 FrAly. The lIOUlle adjourned at half-past V o'clock. vain% 5, ise. tl. Tlae I)spoty Usher ut the Work 1104 summoned the Rouse to attend lite Hume ad . ill 'War the royal 4.4sem tzi I 11, iiiiii 1..141,1 111 the Seditmont Nlvelmgs . evention 13111, amid the hash Elcetiun Act Amendment 1101. The CHANCELLOR of the EXEIIEQUER observed, that u he s h o uld not brin g fore srd any motion on the subject of Finance till after the leeP3t, lie would move OM the Co Stec of Supply a ays and Meows 40 1/051110111d till Wetbleaddy, Feb. IG. Motion served to. A new writ was ordered fur Dartmouth. Lord L,V,TLEREACrII moved the Ilitid reading of the Blasphemous Libel Prevention Bill. Sir It. WILsO'S; opposed the measure, as eateitlated to place in dlell•Old, of Ministeis most tmli ... lied power. Motion weed to, Itill rem' a third time, and passed. OF'TRADE AN!) comAiLacE. Mr. iRVING, in presehting a Petition, observed, that the dish esses 411 trade were great, anti that modifications of the law of tiatle 'alight be tit sorted to with ad vantage. Solve amelioration of the East India trade regulations would he oseful, especially after the 111 , 1411. taget enjoyed by the Americans. He also thought that moil& atoms of the Haut •neuls Sill. so far as "1 4 " 1- ed payments in bullion, he considered as called for. llot all these co ramistances showed the nct•sslly of smote inquiry belt,: instituted. The inquiry, too, ought to be extended to the Corn Laos-311 1114 , Iiry lust would he calculated to bring the aglicuiturist on a par with thr ca pitalist. Such inquiry would also be usefully extended to the Poor LIVIs. As to the payment of Cie National Debt, a subject that had been berme allotted to as practi cable, lie tlionAht, if the Chancellor of the E'scliequei's archives were examined, it would be lound that not a year hid elapsed without some Iw:bestir b uu 1111.4 subject haling been proposed. He hosted that the Pe 'llan would receive the attention of \liniste•rs;.--it %I.IS from Metchants of London, complaining of the condition of trade and rotalllCl ce, and playing the House to institute inquiry into the real causes of the •calamities which afflicted trade. Mr. RICARDO expressed his appt °Motion of the laws, as they how stood, regarding the (lank. It was said that his views, touckiste, the power •to pay GA' she National Debt, weir nul new. He claimed no snide Instil; un the conttary, similar views were .en tAined e lie was bolo, Thal was mom ious. Si lien prices were high in this country, and low 10 another, capital would seetorally go :may -- it vteuhl depart titan lit; that was 44 clear as any propo•hion in Euclid. lie had complained of the Curet LAN s , :lllmongst other things; he knew such was not a popular opiniuti; hat as an honest 111411, ti . rliog it, he etiirresseil it. The National D. ht had been roost unwisely contracted; he thought it .'unlit be, awl emild have neon moult to pity dirk es pertrea as they went no. The dllficuhy was; to relies e decimetres of sue-libel den. lls bought they mitten to hike AO account anti mtpital in the cuontry ; end U.cll all ;iii•i•s•ioii.l,l, to lie freqsiently paid, 'night be let ied fur smell purpose. He knew this teas a *mantic project, but he we. persuaded it was it praclica- Ide As to the Adolfo., to lesson'. payments in bid. I . ,he deemed it most mit iscalele; it torrid break the tall; and the adoption of rwo metals at stemlai ;Is instead of our WOlll4 i nit increase their defliculties. •Hc had lo add, that lie was so far (to fat (Air of the • Petitimi, that he hoped the dcsii; d novelty could be institeted ; it might du good, it could do her harm. Mr. BROILAIHAM sold, as to the:Velhtion not coming !refute, it %Vita berinise the petitioners had expected that the autoject wetted be taken up ley the 11-use. He Med ht . Plittahed whether lie should l ei epos, ;moo ; lie ileooglit there ought to lie 1 hid lit had nu 'mention to pi opose its itestitnlioh,from his diet es beim c on stmt. ter subjects, and bechte•c inquiry could slut he effective without the co.operaliete of Get .1111110111. Heshie•, per. eminent adcialions couldvott be accomplished without strung and efficient GOVerallteld, one that would early 'hoer own changes and 'erasures non effect ; but ells:thee the pie/welt Gave, mores could be deemed' •itcli a one, It wits Oat her' , s , ai V far him to state slow. Ile was wiry that Mr. Ricardu% scaenie for paying off the Iteaitueal Debt had agaiw been inciitioned; but, if it arse partially practicable, tt e told mil) have toe effect of Um:nisei eSt the propel le, real duel pr rsonal, into the hands of tars duel others, for 11se or sit, or several years* Lard CAS'fLEREADII said the Pellicle merited every respect end (Mendota. He admitted that heed Of commerce was desirable, but the safety of tuditieluale property must also be attestileel 40. there leaf term isimeiry uesited regal - Meg matinfeceseres roily, it noidel not have bevel ohjecird Is.; bat he must art I ll' ay nwat and hnJefineel itopitries, ors calculated to pioduce nothing but doeut, alarm, end witeeiliiiiity. it ' iuelmly were desired or 'newest-el, he linstiAl it *meld be tit a de finite character , i—kHeter, hear.)-1 le, thM6eaar, hop' j urethrae would be dune to the piddle yuletid e ... se respecting Ike iiyeaisiii ei* adopted by Ynuusur u t regarding ibe mitrelicy of the comae y. Hear, lover.) 'Ti.. Patter men( had agtlittli and prollOrtllCOtt oa that 1114111 r). Mr. I..LLICE also Joie tt-mituoil) hi the reMpectiadtly of tke petifirseera, and Ito Clematis' that was tberefure due to tits Prink:is. PetitiOn brought op anti read. Mr. SCAULLt ..titrlnctl leave for such Itr• purr, brought in a Bill to .eniedy enit4in leaCthav , ,aieliers local and eselturve jetliildict,uas.—KLAd a us,t and ordered to be read a arrmid tl.lt• Fru. IS. 114: tiouae then Ailjut.ro,d !!!it• ,21 Y' ...:7.- , 01. 0 :;T.