The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-20 00:00:00

ir.."..grr^ , •'l , 3r:llll:g Nerve the property of unsuspecting persons liable to .be plundered ; and this Bill he conceived would pre nut -itch an evil. A marriage performed according tor all. the forms prescribed by the - Chair), of Keg - land, might he annulled ; whereas', if the parties went to Nrutland, and Were married there, it was a perfectly• legal userriage. Many Objections had at various timer• ihren - made to Parlinnentaty divorces; it never was• considered; that as the law now stood, divorces could be ettectest is shoals,• namely. from a want of the sir servant.' of certain fermi. Ihe Noble Earl coo eluded with supporting the Bill. 'I her Earl of Csartaavou thought this Bill at tempted to embrace too much, and that therefore it was impossible that their Lordships combl give a due consideration to it. He admitted that the grievous imperfections of the law required some remedy ; and it was aborrible thing that the validity of a marriage at any distant period, should depend on the caprice of an indisislual. Some parts of this Bill, which went to remove such evils, he was favourable to, while Ise should °Nett to others; and he thought it would, oa the whale, be advisable to go into the l'onimittee on' the Bill:. lord Ellin s could never hive conceived what the nature of his Noble and Learned Friends 'notion WAN' hail he Dot seated-it in the eousinencernent of his speech, front tile' dittirent topics .had introduced into ite The exittime late was a soandal to !ha' _litrYtrill ex posed ienovene ilerwitts to a suite of ilegradaNietl aid ruin. If eilsirnefler in Africa /sere to write a heat s ' and say that such was the last of the kiegllma of . Ashantelohe, stousid.oeir hies down is a civilitie s liar. Bill had , nut Issen.opposedlby any of duo's* great, legal eatkritine in the Other House, abode experience,, and attalesuestni.rendered them best qualified to form a correct eSAlDake of its merits. Sir William Scott had not oppoaed it, nor had Sir John Nichal ; before' is hone cases of divorce had come every day for decision. tan the coetrary, Sir John Nichol' had given it his rerldelAeport ; and would he have Jour so had he. conettie4lt exceptionable to the extent that was now represented? The objections made to the measure in this stage of the proceedings, would have been more properly urged in a Committee. The Noble and Learned Lord, after a few more observations, con cluded with expressing himself in favour of their leirelehips.gqine into a Committee on the Bill. In that case, however, he should nut pledge himself to sniper, any speeific proposition. buril Csirmone spoke briefly in support of the original niatioal.• Lord Eu.reelmucem explained. The Karl of Loviaroot., after a few prefatory ob servations, said, that so advantage could result from re-eomulittini a Bill which had already come out of a Committee without any satisfactory amendments. He us. convinced, however, that some alteration of the existing lanu,was absolutely necessary. His great ob jection to this Bill was, that it was to have a rein. apective and a prospective effect at the same dem. Ile was averse to all ezpotl-farte measures. The law on this subject . ettht to he made as clear as possible-, I et their Lordships legislate prospectively, and they would legishite!'wliely. If they legislated retro satectively, lir theta do so in a separate measure; and if they enacted % Id* which "Ulu have a pcospeetive effect, let them dO likewiae In the form of a separate Bill. It ;vas with the conviction of the expediency of. their Lordships' proceeding upon this principle, that be was unwilling to go into a Committee. Lord HOLLAAD; in the course of some observations. contended, that the arguments of the Noble Earl who bad just sat Idirn, as well as those of a Noble Lord who had precerted•bius in the debate (Lord Redesdale) afforded tl.e best. reason that could be adduced for going into the Commiun. The Noble Earl had raid that 11J good could ensue from re-committing the Bill, because the amendments of the former Committee had not been found satisfactory; but had not the Marriage Art it-elf been so altered it, a Committee, and by the Howc• of Commons, that Lord Hardwick scarcely knew it to be the cane measure which he had proposed. lie deprecated any further delay to the consideration of this most important question. It was clear that so: 11 consideration could take place with advantage wily in a Committee. While they hesitated upon' the select, the evil which the Bill Proi'es's;ed to remedy was spreading team alarming extent all over the coon try. If their Lordships should in this instance vote against the re-comenittrient . of this Bill, they would virtually vote against the pritiiiple of all Bills of Illa same description. . . Lord Ranasos‘x and teed HOLLAND mutually ex. plaided. A short conversation then took . place between them two Noble Lords,. together with Lord gisatoi sad Lord ELLaNsonooss, explanatirf upon some partial tar points ; after which 'the question was rat ea 11*. original motion ; whets, - *pot • •• • 'the Loan Cosweittag atatiag that. the so• Nosh. Contents" had it, - . • , ... • , The Earl of Wtrierattukaiii for:a.itivhdo*.l Strangers were Wit sad she *ambers were— •'•'"/• • •• • • Nos-4:omssoers:., ••••••;•-• ss contents .• AIL • . • ALIEN BILL.--Art mir wollbrigla their Lordships in a Comatttee on this.ll4lll,,lliabJ was reported forthwith. • • " The Chancery Regiktion Btlt was 'ordered.** tit read a second time to-morrow, after few-words films Ler.l KIDIIRDALR, Lord HOLLAND, the Loan ClAN cu.s.mt. the Earl of Liontact, and the Earl of Dosovanoonn. The several Bills on their Lordships' table were thee put forward in their respeetire a *.eges without say discussion. Adjoaraed at half-past Nine o'clock. Mark Cobden, gamekeeper to the Duke of Bleb mend, in which family be had spent the whole of his life, died a few days ago, in the iltd year of his age. was at ems time esteemed, according to the Crick.: tree phrase, the longest arm in England. In 1792 i be wee matched to threw a live tad a quarter ball, is Goodwood pork. for a eonsiderable wager, with the Earl of Wiachelsea, Whom he best by three yards, pitching his ball the inithrow one hundred sad nine sees ards. ins Ueda* bed Isom before been bests.. . . , -1 "" , .T. COURT OF Ci,AIMS, Jct.) , 19. —.....- The Earl of Illaartownt took the Chair at twelve o'clock : his Rovir Highness the Duke of YORK sitting on his right, out) Sir Wu. ()RANT 00 lila left Laud. The other Commissioners were, Lord Ilan LILT, Sir WiLLIASI SIACrt; and Sir 11. KVISELL. The Noble Chairman directed WlLLtsa BUTT, F.sq., the Dephry Seejeant at Arms, to make the Proclamatar , for silence, anti for claimants to bring in their prook in support of their claims. Mr. Painsos, the Solicitor of Mrs. Jane fireene. who , claimed to perform the duties of Naperer on the day of 1 his Majesty a Coronation, in the right of the Manor of Little Torruck, otherwise Torrell, under an inquisition , taken in the Stith year of the reign of King Henry VIII., i in the year 15.34. There being no proof to show tlsat ' the predecessors of -the claimant had claimed to have I performed the service since that time; the Court found that the claim was not proved. An application was matte on the behalf of the Ladies IVillottgliby and Cholmondeley, for leave to present a petition on the next l'otirt day, in consequence of the death of Lord litrydir, rot leave to appoint a Deputy lireat Chamberlain to the duties of that °eke on the day of his Majesty's Coronation.—llianted.. His lirree the Duke of Bedford's Agent attended, and produced title deeds, tic., in proof of his claim to performs the service of King's Almoner on the day of his Jlajes-, ty's Coronation, in right of the. Barony . and Castle of Bedford. It app ea red that the site of the Castle is near to'the Swan Inn, Bedford, which is the Duke's property. The Castle of Bedford is held of the King by service at i t Kit 'a Almoner on the Coronation. The servi t e v i °rated by the person in possession of the l:alitlit z reign of Edward I . l.—The Court determined, NO 'saving allowed the claim of another person to do Hia lime service, the Duke of Bedford could have only o f li I incutrent claim, which was granted. • ' • ' Mi. Devereui, of the county of . Wexford, attended ( *Pith statements of proofs to enbstanti a t e hi s c l a i m til ' •earty the sceptre and dove, icc., before his Majesty, on ,the dny of the Coronation. It appeared that the clais maul's ancestors performed the service at the Coronas, tion of Richard 1., baton account of his not being *DV to prove that the service had been done wince that *HA, the Court decided that he bad not made good his' claim. The agent of the Earl of Shrewsbury attended, who claimed to perform the services of Lord Steward•of Ire- land at the Coronation of his Majesty. 1 The Court was of opinion that lid. clair under their jurisdiction, and referred ' Council. Sir lj. NATLFR, on behalf of Lord IC be allowed to have his place on the dal his Majesty, as Lion King at Arnie of S. The. Court decided, if called on to perform should have his place. Mr. Wild claimed to serve his Majest the day of his Coronation for his hands, basin and ewer as his fee. The Court decided that he had not marh The claims of the Duke of Hamilton ar of .Douglar, to carry the Crown.of Srotl of the Coronation, were both decided Court. The'Marqnis of Ormond's claim to Chief Butler of Ireland on the day of ronation, was allowed by the Burt, wit it should be referred to the King in ' and what, services he was to perform, 'Usk@ 4if Norfolk had made good leis claim to perform thecieruiee as Chief Butler of .England. 411. r . ..,Estimart's and the Earl of Abergsveuny ' s 4 a m , service of_Lardevers on the day of Idsblajesty's Move allowed by the Nutt. • adjourned acthret o'clock, by prociansa- INC eillluaday, the tith instant, at twelve o'clock. ••••• • • •- ' • : 411 ' PROJECThD EXTRA POST. s :~; The object of the Extra Pest is to accommodate cer tain Commercial towns at a certain distance from the metropolis, with an unusually expeditious delivery of lettere, isy accelerating the convevauce from the rate of eight miles an hour, which is the rate of the snail coach plan, to that of 12, which is to be the rate of the projected mail carts. Against this project many strong objections have arisen, on account not only o( the ex cessive and unnecessary exertion of animal labour to affect tbe purpose where it is established, bat of its in jurious operation on the places to which it does sot extend. the project is founded on a supposition that, the great expence of the conveyance may be defrayed ; by the payment of doable postage, but it will of course be never tried bat where the great expence is likely to be reimbursed, slid trill therefore be limited and partial. The unfair advantage in the way of trade, which this partial use of the accelerated conveyance will give to the inhabitants of one district above those of another, will be manifest to every one on the slightest consider ation. if, for instance, the Extra Post should pay its expences to Manchester and Liverpool, but net further, in what it situation would merchants and manufacturers in all the neighbouring, listricts be placed, who would have epecolators in their nierkets purchasing and pur suing all their objects, with information derived by the extra post, which the ethers could not possibly obtain. I How con it be supposed that this Post would pay for Its extension to lilar.row ' when to reach that city, if w ould fur near two hundred miles traverse a country iii which an extra post letter could scarcely ever be expectiell. Yet a person 'shied leave Maw ,thrister after The extra pest gets there; and be in Ohogove the•day before the mail-coach letters would be delivered, to tie great detriment of the mercantile in terests of that city. Atidif it did extend to all the large commercial towns, hew would the farming interest be situated 1 , Fnetors and coin epeeuleters would possess theloogitel of tbeinstoations• at llark-Intse; and beside' -In trawlers, whole camas.* before the ordinary post bad arrived.' The landed proprietors would soon ban their tenants eintplaining that they could never sell, except to a disadvantage, to those persons who colas from the lowa, which the extra post may embrace. • The suit reasoning applies to every branch of trade t and thigh ' its benefit to few great capitalists may be gratifying them id the advantage it would give tlimn over the maim of the community, there is hardly prey general interest which this - extra post would not teed to inure. With respect to London newspapers, for the diffusion of which j we may be allowed to be solicitous, and about which, fat I the sake of the revenue they produce, the Oriverasiset cannot bo serpent", be indifferent, it is evident their sale mssl be ammideeibly dinai *hod in thecoontry; fir when those by the sins post have been read at the Subscription Roams, which iroald have one at any ex• passe, what interest could people take in those by Cho , common post, which woold be one day old. Unless I the extra post be as universal as the mail' coaches' and common horse posts, it sever can be freed from this objection; anti while it is mast unlikely to create say new revenue of importance, the exposes will he enoo, mons for conveyance; for sew offices, elerka, letter cow Tiers, he., and in this way to be sure It may be a am. source of patrbnati. In expense, sad in its gispieste to robbery, it -is able to the two greet objectless which the estabNainnert 'of nail coaches overeamo. 1 Tito emstrapoliswemid, besides, be grievously perplexed bf the aeritainf two daily 'posts, ode oinning Oils,' A lwadisa raercisaat sow riesivOs any f • • * ;. -s.:. • . • . . • ..: • I Liverpool, between nine and ten o'clock, and proceeds to busiuess ; hat en the new plan he may hare another letter at eleven or twelve o'clock the same day, from Liverpool, •olateol almost 21 hour% later. What, there fore, can he fin with hi% first letters? If he were ordered to insure a ship and does not effect it, the next two hours may bring him advice that she is lost. A Limited questions on insurance, bills of exchange, and bargains, will arise out of the two posts, which the Courts of Law only can decide. At Liverpool it will be worse, for the letters from London, now delivered at eight A. N., can be of little lase till the extra post has arrived at one r. N., and as it returns at three, the post-day wilt be virtually abridged to an hour and a half, deducting the time to sort the letters for delivery, and to make up the mails. In addition to all this, the machinery of the system is so ' strained that any thing less than the proposed speed would be equal to a failure. Only &portrait of the mails on any road are to be carried, and as many towns are to be skipped as may be supposed to form any impediment. The letters are to be sorted and delivered in Liverpool and London witlo almost miraculous haste, and after all only a circle of the metropolis or of Liverpool, or any other large town; can have the benefit; for the interval between the arrival and dep arture of the extra post at Liverpool will be only two hours. The travelling toast be twelve miles an hour, to cover the proposed rate of eleven miles, all stops included ; and any loss of time upon the road would he hardly recoverable, the practica bility of the project on a permanent basis cannot bat be held as doubtful. ylis QUEEN. " Brave, brave, by 11 s—ebe deserves a Crows!" " All that had bees fallisderl towards bar Majesty was herseer, ea tamer, fedi --Kg. sad benevldesee."—Mr. CAS JIINS.II Spawn, June 7, 1940. We are governed by a set of drivellers. wbose coodaet takes away all dignit)• from distress, and ■aka eves ca lamity ridicalouv."--Bir R. STIMI.I. LEITYR XIII. TO THE ZDITOR OF TIIE STATESMAN. Sm.—The rinse of the Queen is the cause of the people. If Minhiters should succeed in their ma chinations against her Majesty, no man or woman in the kingd would be safe. If they can immolate the the State, what is to hinder them successively all the lowest? Let us magnanimous example of her Ma the right to justice, of every man, in the nation, which, through her, wantonly attacked, and grossly vio known how to assert our rlgkes, that she has asserted her's, usel the despoiled, trodden down, and' that we are. It is most certain, misters, and the two " Chambers," punished, as often as they violate the '‘cipks of justice, the blame principlly if we allow them with iurpueity In our own ignorance, abjectness to be found the principal cause,- me oppression generally, as of the pro carried on against the Queen. Nothing than, that, if there were no slaves, there could be no tyrants. Let us no longer, then, be inioled, or cajoled, by that " ignis litmus," the ghost' of our departed Constitution. Are any of us still se be lled us to expect that the departed Conetitation is capable of spontaneous reesseitstion? Is there any longer a man upon whom experience is so wholly, thrown away as to expect any thing but a perseverance in evil courses, from a "Chamber" that refuses to re -1 sine a petition offering to prove at their Bar that so many of its Members are returned by Peers, and are thelefore not representatives of the people, and stating - eke .isaines of those Members, and of the Peers by wham they are returned—and this rejection made under the pretext, equally false and frivolous, of its being an election petition ? The essence of the Con- Meution, then, is to be subordinate to the forms of the Souse of Commons falsely interpreted! We observe, toe, this House, or Chamber—this perfect model of virtue, and virtual representation—this Green Bag as yokly of purity and perfection, declines to print the Mom of those Lords and Commoners, who, out of their exubeeset patriotism, are determined to serve the Illespluin spite of themselves. Their modesty and dis holleestedness will doubtless finally have their reward. Be- what, in the wean time, is to become of us ? Or, *kb is the same thing, what is to become of our gracious Queen, in the hands of those modest and dis- Immreeted Peers and Commoners ? Her fate is iden 41kpi with that of the nation. If in her ease, the highest subject of the State, every principle of justice, oven Amu of • law, and every semblance of decorum, Me be violated ; if precedents can be twisted, and fol lowed, or rejected at pleasure, in order to ob tain a conviction ; If, by a Milan tribunal, and a menbination of other intpaisitorial, or Star Chamber meeediega, such as were never before known in any eisilised nation, her 'Majesty could besaerificed, what safety would there be for any subject of inferior de gree ? Positively none, Everyone of us individually, the whole nation collectively, would be completely at the mercy of a set of men more dangerous than any ibM seir wielded power since the creation : and we olisoloiriaves no other guarantee than that to sir erillootits all would not suit their purpose. No- Was • then, can avail, but our firm and unani• 181110 determination, openly manifested, not only in weeds but by actions, to protect her Majesty *om oppression, and to bring her persecutors to punishment. Popular exertions and vigilance may .pet prevent Ministers and the "Chambers " from pushing matters tp a formal decision, and induce them le retire from a contest. which, whatever that decision .may be. can only terminate in their disgrace and hit. isiliation, not to say absolute destruction. If, indeed, nothing short of a formal decision, at any risk, will natisfy them; if, justice out of the queition, they are Oa incurably blind as not to see oullioient motives for Writing' their steps, in the unanimous voice of the made,. most unequivocally pronounced, against each and every one of their proceedings, upon this leper tint imeasion, they may h a pp en to fin when it is tee late, that such decision will be wholly disregarded. If. therefore, it be not their object to provoke revise. seas, they will do well, before they proceed farther, to Mimi whether the few hundred penes/. who evil dilate the eikk against ber Majesty, are likely, by yin. sesame inherent infallibility, is he mere ea lightened, respeettag the great inserests of the emplrir. than the millioos who constitute the British people; " Wit On ace, Vhatker it woad tket.ba deasommi Ii . 7 " 1 highest subject of e claim did not come ; frost destroying: sung it to the King gal shun. imitate the ma _, jetty, in defending I it of I 'oronaition 4 elainsea to woroas. or c hild , i n • r Sc . otland. ; Las been most wan lased. if we had ierforus services, he. 4 with the same spirit .sly with water gp 4 ahonW not now he t is, and to hare the isiaerahle creatures, that, altisoigb Mini made out his clam. _I- Imes in and Nye Marti* . fry to be punish rotland on the it/ taw* or the principh l e d aga i nst b y th e I litcys with ourselves, to commit crimes. ', do the qerrires of sad servility, are to his Majesty's Co. well of the national c rich d'lrectimls that ceedings now carrier Conneil, as to any c 111! mo letrue,su as his (trace the , :•• : • 4 •••.: • •:•••1 I . those few handfuls; to defer to the opinions, ee cidedly pronounced, of almost the entire nation, in the extresuity to which matters are unhappil y deiced, one consolation, however, but a censolati ee some importance, remains to us; if the persecusers her Majesty- should fihd themselves compell e d t , cede; public virtue and freedom will have ganef eft , umph ; whilst, If they should proceed, and h e eis. quished, the victory will be more complete; ei cy they should even prevail, the effect will be to em e hii 4 an open despotism, which will be neither se INN . nor su grinding, as those insidious measures, ai it which we have so long been suffering a gradmi h et certain decay. In my eleventh letter, I have taken a view of t h fir-t eight measures of the present series of p ew cution against her Majesty. The Alien Bill, 0 400 of in my last, may, although not vet finished, s i t will no doubt be completed in time for the Italia* messes, be considered the ninth. The tenth messiah the Report of the Secret Committee of the keen e r Lords. `this Report states nothing but what Mil l i ten had previously declared in the two "Chu n k" : It is a mere unsupported, echo of the Mi e e eooo charges. This Committee, uniting the limps% functions of Brand and Petty Jury and Jed" 016 the further incongruities of secrecy and acs Via- ilea of witnesses, appear to have had for* d 6 principal objects, to take the odium and raps of this nefarious prosecution off the battered A li a. ders of Ministers; which Lord alinewhy, lashed, tp one of his speeches, Eon mot hesitate exclaslvelv h throw upon them. They found it would be someivim more ditficult . tp induce the House of Commons telle wale a party, and they withdrew from the Lower Clem her the Green Bag. This we shall all the elevenths( these stupid transactions. The immediate effects sf tie Report of the Committee were to exonerate the Ministers from responsibility, and to prejudice still far ther her Majesty's cause; consequences, which, es they could not but have been foreseen, and mast hare been intended, rendered the appointment of sack Committee doubly unjustifiable. In order so stresgthes these prejudices, upon finding of the Scent tow mittee, and without any farther inquiry, a Bill of Pains and Penalties is introduced against her, Majest, as if she had been already convicted. And this us. principled form, or pretence of conviction, this net extraordinary Bill, a measure which no kinglets'.' adequately characterise, at once a judicious sad au 'spoil facto legislative measure, is **spends& sheet her Majesty's neck until the 17th of An , ja umarsilly and ignorant, bet well-esseeier will regrrd this monstrous Bill as tautasessist w eon. viction ? Bat the nand and dimming part of the ae Lion will see the 'Photo turpitude of this preemies and regard it with Ilk disgust and detestatiss wihh its intentions merit ; and theyufll make it recoil spa the heads of its base authors. This is tlee twelfth sit of this serial of oppression. My next letter 'shall treat of the refusal Wait. ten to consmunieate to her Majesty the sem el the witnesses whom they Intend to bring forwasiagaisst her, with some opinsdloal acts of those great slatines, as the importation' aid ampipsdades MAO witnesses, the aammteletien esd peetpeemost CID Coresadun, he. ie. he. AMU& ' Lesion, July IS, usu. I i FJ' 4 PRICE OF STOCKS THU Sank Stock 294 $ pCent. Red. RIM per Ct. C 0... fRII NI per Cent. 77f 78 4 For Costs. 074141 prCt. Nay. I Lena Ann. IS I leap. i per Cost. Ann. DAY AT ONE bilis Oink lin 11l Mellama Imo. Ili. pa. Old Amituldss Ilels 9d. M. es. pu. Ditto C... I Is. Its. pa. Osmisis Osia. 9"Am. OW Lott. Tickets Cbt atattlintan. " TIM iltlllllll STA?ISSAI II 'writ " TN LONDON: THURSDAT ETINING, JULT 20. 181 A There is a report at the west end of the IeVIN Oa • private messenger is arrived from Naples with as se count of a revolution having taken plamtleeve similar to that of Spain, and without any blood baring ben shed. We have this morning received Pith 9111 , 14 ' Monday. An article from Madrid, dated Jaly 6th, sista, dist all the official appointments relative to the Kadin' Congress are now completed. The Archbishop sae. vine is named President; General Quiroga, Vicelte. sident ; M. M. Clew:min, Caper°, Martial Lipeasaad Subrie, the four Seeretiries..• A rod depando . • waited on the King to ansonom their appeialoast His Majesty intended to be priest at the sitdag lith. A Loyal Ordisestie Mlk km thing it:initecaption throughout Spain, for the 'hill*. of the inhabitants of the island et Majosta, at root aMicted with Ms epidemic, which has already nob great ravages. There is so interesting Mulligan -Moire to the internal again of France contained Is 'these Papers. FRINCM Fustas.—Five per Cents. 79 1. 19 cP" Bank Actions, 1367 f. 50 e. Kew York Papers arrived this morning to tki ttd Jane, from which the following are extracts . COLUMBIAN REPUBLIC. ADIFICIIX 11201 i ANIBMTVItA 11* JUNI I. The President Bolivar, after, *meetly the anodes er the Royal forms by movements es the Uppw Apses► old 4 frequent changes of positions. had Made a mews*. &varies in tamer of the mmditios from llargaritta ender Owed Mantilla. who was destined egelmt Rh do Is Haab. Ow meal Pees was Is swiss es tits Commie. olds 001" Ie ._, 8000 tarn for -gambleden Alum waked fee a supply steins wade lid log Mss suptorres and had reaostiy evolved. The dNWen d fillostd had surprised the head rWI of a diviaiell of the my"' and made pillions el the Royal traps is is. cr. a tY,d nab some moisten" and wee re who 1 fa. . 4010 1 le Op lowa Ilk X x I C ■ I P.