The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-19 00:00:00

•1 S % • ,• T h e R e proof the Res. lotion for granting 6.0001. ammo. the Duke of Keni, and power to his Rote l ili g hne a to the filocess lomingeo, was agreed tu, nod a Bill ordered to b e brootht in, in pursuance of the Res , lutions. IRISH MISC ELLA N EOUS ESTI M ATM. Me. PEEL moved the Order of the Day for the House going Into a Camelia* of Supply and moved that the Irish Miami lauvrou. Edimates be referred to the Ceironittee. The How linviog gone into R Cormoittee. Mr. PEEIs moved a grant of 8,0(k ) l. towards the Works at Xlimmore riaboor. sir J. NEW PORT stated, that 50. 60. and mosetimes 100 i n a w eek, were oblige.' to take refuge in that harbour. Ir. PEI". '‘aid, it nsi,ht be necessary io future to entered tbe works. bnethe present plea would pot interfere widramy furpre 'stewing'. ReSOl.llll,ll was then agreed to. sr. PELL then moved for.i,oool. towards wryly' on Boith Barbour. —Agri to. Mr. Pi. EL moved for 15,0001. towards assistiog in building Fever Hospitals, and other measures for preventing the increase of Fever in Ireland. Sir td, W. RIDLEY spoke is favour of the grant. Sir J. NEWPORT hoped the Right Hug. Gentleman would not be sparing. Mr. PEEL said nothing required greater delicacy than th e interference °fan F.secutive Government with private charities. Government could not be a substitute for private charity. and by. holding out a delusive hope it might stop the coatributions of Sir J. N EW PO IF( asimadverted on the conduct of those sediees who drew their whole income from Irelaud.and were, Is a visitation of this kind. deaf to the calls of humaaity. The Resolution was tiro agreed to. Mr. pEEL men moved 18.#601. towards Buildings( Churches in Ireland fur &be a r. Sir J. NEW PORT said it appeared from a Return presented to the Douse.that since the UoionS4 Churches had been united, and only eight disunited. In proportion as parishes were united Ore Protestants decreased. The wholes( extensive tracts of country bad often been united under one Clergymen. Mr. PEEL observed, that unless Churches were built there amid be no use roe disuniting parishes. Sir J. N Ent PORN mid, even if there were no Church a Pruiestant Clergy sus ought to reside in vie parish, from which be derived his living, to hearth the inhabitant. by his example. The Resolution was then agreed to. The follow tug itcsulutiolis were then successively agreed to -15,0001. towards defraying the ex peace of a Coosa to the River Frhomion. SX,Outil. for Ordnance of Ireland. 141,004 H. fur delta) log the charge or disembodying the Irish 'flee Keport was ordered lobe received no Wednesday next. itiSTICK-GENERAL OF SCOTLAND. Mr. BANK!' S moved the Order of Day for the House going into a Committee on the Lord Justice General of Scotland Bill, for the purpose of post- ' poring it to this day three months. Mr. J. P. GRANT hoped they would hear no more of the 13111. Mr. BA NK ES observed, that the Finance Cen tilitre recommended the total abolition of the Office as. far as salary went. Mr. T 1 ER :Si EY said, the attempt to transfer this title to the Lord President of the Court of Session, with half the salary, was an abominable job, and be was sorry to understand there WAS an iuteotion of attempting it again neat year. Mr. HUAISSON understood the Lord Justice- General was Lord of the Criminal Court of Scotland. Mr. TIERNEY said, the only additional duty cast on the person who should be made Lord Justice.. General, would be that of Master of the Horse here. - 7 (zi laugh.)—Whoever filled the office of Justice. General might take bis seat in the Scottish Cri minal Court; and the Duke of Montrose, when ess. mined, stated, that he had once assisted, and might have oftener taken his seat, if be chose. After same farther observations from Sir JOHN NEWPORT and Mr. J. P. GRANT, the commitment was postponed to this day three months. Mr. CANNING brought in a Bill to regolate the East India Company's Shipping, which was read a first and second time, and ordered to be read a third line to-morrOw. The Slave Trade Acts Amendment Bill was read a second time, cud ordered to ba committed to-mor row. In • Committee of Supply the CHANCELLOR , of the EXCHEQUER. moved a Grant of 100,0001. towards Building Churches in Scotland. Report to be received to-morrow. Adjourned at Mpg* Twelve o'Clock. PRICE OF STOtION TIIII /tank Stock 3 per Cent Red. 780 3 per Cent. Con-01% tni Consul.. fnr Acc. 796 4 per Cent. 91 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 5 per Cent. Navy W 7 India Bonds 99 100 p -- Stock 231 Long Ann. 20 5-16 lizettequer WIN 18 22 p THE STATESMAN. 1 . ...... LONDON: TUSSDAT. NAT 19, 10118. It is a very general opinion in the public offices end political circles, warranted by the active en deavours of Ministers themselves and their sap porters, to insure their return, that Parliament will be dissolved on the 3d or 4th of neat month. The proceedings in the House of Commons last night had some carious features of individual as well as public interest. Notwithstanding the indignation that his fallen so heavily up Pcnransox, the agent of Lord Donotas, who is now in Newgate for at tempting to bribe a voter, and the speeches made against the heinous sin of bribery, of which Lord CASTLEREACIU pretends to be entirely igno rant, and which denunciations the incorruptible Lord as invariably takes care not to hear, the Hen. House seems now disposed to relei in its severity towards Mu offender against the Constitution, A Petition from FERGUSON, praying to be liberated, was last night presented by (mirabile didu!) Lord A. Muir -Tow, upon whose notice (according to the report) it is to be taken into consideration this evening, when, it may be eapected, Lord CASTLE.. }MAGI( O ill attend and vote in f+•our of the motion. Flummox's liberation would be a natural couse. %twice of the dissolution of Parliament, but his of /nice is now considered so venial, that be may be restored to liberty before that time. 'lke Education of the Poor, and the abases in Chsritahle Institutions came again under the consi deration of the HOOP'. Mr. BRoUGHADI made another able and interesting speech on this subject, in which be hinted at discoveries of even greater abuses that; Lave yet been made public, and gave intimation to 40' I . - , .. '. .._ _ ... - --'-r contain Gentleness who bast not yet attended to Ike Call of the Coitlaittee by making the returns required, that to elude obseriatiob Is impossible, as eeidence of the Aunt they might *ish to conceal has already been obtained, and if they attempt tb screen the culpable, detection and *Sponse must oosekt. Mr. BROUGUAK gave a most honburable instance of his disinterested seal in this good cause, by offering himself as one albs Commissioners, who are gratuitously to labour in the investigation of this complicated and not very pleasant business. The non. and Learned Gentle• man has onqaestionably done much in this particular, and we know few departments of public usefulness in which his activity could be more serviceably displayed than as a Member of this Commission. We would strongly protest, for many reasons, against vesting the high responsibility of naming. the Commissioners in the Government, for the enquiry is not only one of the most important in which the Members of the Le gislature can be engaged, but there is too much rea- son to fear that the abases in question will be found to affect the interests and character of families whose CaallaCtioD with Government is perhaps bat too in timate. The public attention is now most justly di rected in a powerful manner to this suhj•ct, and no. meross instances are already transpiring, to prove the shameful neglects and maiversations which for a length of time have been *offered to exist; which bare deprived the Poor of their just rights, and burdened the leaded proprietor with taxes and impositions to which be ought not to be subjected.— The amount of the fonds which properly belong to the Poor, appears to be far beyond what had been supposed. Can any thing be more intolerable than that a few individuals should engross, by a series of malversations of their own, and neglects of others, fends which would feed the Poor of whole parishes? In but too many instances it will be found that Chari table Institutions have been shamefully neglected or infamously perverted, and their funds abased ; and there is also ton much reason to believe that the most unfeeling malversation extends to the Asylums which Benevolence has provided for the solace of old age, as well as to the Schools established for the education of youth. In some instances these seb jects may be found se intimately connected that to separate them wf,ulcl almost amount to injustice. 11 is justly remarked, in glancing at certain establish ments of this kind, that it will, perhaps4r found, that sets of apartments are enjoyed by favoured fami lies, where but ut►e room should be allowed, and several friendless individuals excluded to afford unreasonable accommodation where► least merited ; nor it would be the first time we have heard of such a thing, if it should transpire, that the horse of a Governor or Manager has before now been accom modated with an alms-house for his stable, whore a destitute old man has applied for shelter in vain. By the statement of Mr. Put. In the Committee of Supply it will be observed with deep concern, that the alarming Fever which bas already made such dreadful ravages in Ireland, is still very far from being subdued. Mr. P. proposed an additional vote of 15,0001. for aiding the Fever Hospitals and other Institutions engaged in checking the progress of this dreadful malady. or rather, perhaps, io keep ing it from the homes of the rich. He was understood to say, across the table, that he made the proposi tion in-consequence of information that had reached him within these few days, of the contagion being in several parts very severe, from which it was appre hended that 'farther sun would be necessary. Mails from Holland and Flanders bring some ar ticles of political and commercial importance. From Newburgh and St. Petershargh we are furnished with two Edicts of the Russian Emperor, one in. creasing the duty on the principal articles of exporta tion from Russia no less than ten per cent., and an other Imperial Ukase from Warsaw, ordering a great increase and estension of the Inland Navigation of the Empire. These articles will be found iu another column, ender a separate bead. In the Sitting of the German Diet of the Rid alt., it was agreed on the part of Prussia that the follow ing provinces of that Power shall form part of the Germanic Confederation, vis.:—Pomerania, Bran denburgh, Silesia, Saxony, Westphalia, Cleves, Berg, 1 and the Lower Rhine. The Doke of CAMBtUDOZ made his entrance, in fell state, into Cassel, on the Bth of May ; on the following day, the Princess AUGUSTA of Hesse was solemnly betrothed to his Royal Highness, and on the 7th the marriage was solemnised. An article from the French frostiers states, that a levy of 16,000 Ind will soon be made in France, in antid. pation of the Royal Ordinance which is daily looked for respecting the organization of the army. The King of Pulliam is expected to visit his troops in France nut automat French Papers to the lath, have been received.. In the Sitting of the Chamber of Peers, on the 14th, the Projects of the Budget were, after some dis cussions busily adop►ed by a Majority of 108 to 2. Some minor matters of business only remained to be gone through previous to the prorogation. They bed began to embalm the body of the Prince or Comm His remains were to be interred at St. Denis. The articles in thee• Papers generally are without importance. Several Spaniards established at Merges hare left that city, in cousequenee of the Decree of thas Ri ug of Spain ; which qualifies the •maeity - THE - gtATOMAN: _ _ 1~ .;:=~ granted by him. M. FeAtilb hat entrusted his ht. terms at le Court of Cassation to M. Na?LIU, dr Theologist. The Emperor ALsiagolta left Wdaaw on the 30th ult. on his tour to the CrioWu. The Freed Five per Cestsi left off on the 14th at GBf 25c. The case of the trial and desticSon 'of Jesuits MZECEIIOII, for corruptly abusing his fonctioni es a Magistrate, in licensing entoriossly bad characters and bid houses, his oWn tenlnts and property, for the sal* of liquor, is a striking and most convincing proof of the 'Joist's , ' partial' and iniquitous system of licensing, which we have peatedly tried to espose. The instances of flagrant violstions of duty, and inj entice to the Public, screened too successfully till now, in this particular, and in this individual, with the jest and salutary verdict of the Jury, will speak much more upon this subject than any thing that we can adduce to prove the necessity of a wholesome and just practice. Tits QUEEN.—We understand that the QUEEN, after the breaking up of her party on Sunday night, was seised with one of those alarming spurns to which her Ma.Jzsze is subject, and which, affecting a con stitution on the decline, are considered by the faculty as dangernis to her life. Sir Feamds MILLM US and Sir BENOIT lIALFORD were immediately sent for, and were in attendance the whole of yesterday. They also sent for Dr. tslivrorr. The report at one time was very unfavourable, but she was greatly relieved yesterday evening. The Dukes of YORK, CLAIRE/ma, and CUMBER. LAND, the Prince and HUE/14 of IlEssz•lionauao, and the Princess AUGUSTA, visited the Niece ((a. GENT yesterday, about two o'clock, and remained with his Royal Highness a considerable time. The Doke of KENT arrived at Dover yesterday morning, and, after taking some refreshment, em. barked hit boat which conveyed hie Royal Highness to the Royal Sovereign )ache, lying in the roads, and she shortly afterwards got under weigh. Accounts have been received from Demerara, as late ma the 6th ult., which state that tranquillity Is pettedly restored to that colony. A large force had been sent out against the runaway negroes, which had succeeded, without further lose, in bringing thee back to their duty. , J 'oleic. Papers, to the 13th ult. have reached et ; but they aepply us with no nt , vel intelligence from vise Si, , ailibb Main. The Independent privateers con. tinge to swore. in the West Indies, and many of thee commit depredations on every Teasel tit.) , fall in with. I rowdies% * io•'ter they belong to friend or foe.-- They are ~,i: r.ti numerous on the coasts of Cube, diet no Spanish vessel can venture out of its ports' witbot. convoy. In this aisle of affairs, it seems to be the estrrrme of folly to cedede foreign vessels from the r onamerre ttf that hiland, and to deprive the OM- Chan% both of ,he Col•wy and the Mother Country, of the advantages of a circuitous traffic, through the medium of neutralization, a hen the latter is incapable of affording an efficient protection to the direct trade. The arrangements between Spain and this country for the immediate abolition of the Slave 'Trade 6n the African coast, North of the Equator, and its total abolition in 1820, have beenpromulasted its Cube, by order of the Spanish G o vernme•tit.- - These Papers confirm the accounts previously re ceived, through other channels, of the active h )s.tllities carried on by the Independent privateers against the Spanish coasting trade in the Pacific. Two of them, after capturing and horning a number of vessels, had, it was supposed, sailed to the Friendly Isles, to refit, and procure supplies. The following is a summary of Bouvaa's Bulle tins, noticed in oar Pipet of yesterday :—Flavin[, in January, concentrated his forces, BOLIVAR ad• vaticed on Celebes° ' where MoRILLo had established his bead-quarters. On the 12th of February, the Venezuelan army invested the town and forts; lie hlostiLLo, not chasing to be cooped up bi the place without hazarding a battle, endeavoured to turn the left flank of the Patriots. This manceuvre was pre vented by a rapid and simultaneous movement of BOLIVAR'S cavalry, which cot his right wing to pieces; and his whole force being pet to the rate, Montu.o was obliged to betake himself to flight, almost alone, after having narrowly escaped death or captere from two of the Patriot lancers, who killed two of his hussars by his sidi. Mottit.t.o hating now shot himself op in Calabozo, the Patriot Army began to take op the most advantageous positions . round it for blockading him, and cutting off his sop. plies ; but on the 14th of February he was com pelled to abapdon the town, and retreat upon Som brero. He was closely pursued by BOLIVAR, who defeated him in two actions on the 15th and 15111 ; mud on the 17th of February, the date of the last of these Bulletins, be was proceeding with the shat tered remains of his army towards Camataga. A letter from Munich, dated May 4, says—" We have beard with much plessere that the system of mutual instruction, blunted by Laricarrat and BELL, is beginning to be introduced into the schools of the Austrian regiments. It was Gen. 'haircut and Prince JOHN of LICHSTENITEIN, who set the first example in their regiments" They write from Augsberg, that the Pritece ROYAL of BAVARIA will not go to Greece, as has been said. He will return to Naples to meet Prince LEoecoLo of the Two SICILIES and the Archduchess CtEstarrins, his wife, who will travel with him to Mmitredonla, to embark there for the coast of Dal-. matte, where the party will find the Emperor and Euratom of AUSTRIA. The PRINCE ROYAL will sc. I i teeny the Empress, his sister, to Venice, and tbeecra return to Munich. PORTER.—A meriting Paper says, the investigelless into the evils of tbis Liceniing System, as steeling the price and quality of the national beverage, makes bet slow progress before the Committee of the House of Commons, to whom it *as referred the week be : fore last. Witnesses were ezemined every day, end most important disclosures were made ; bet during i the last week the sittings of the Committee were sus !molded altogolter. In a few weeks more, it is us. oerstoed, Parliament will be diesolved, and then the enquiry will be at an end. Tie Mount of the accident alleged to have hap• pew] to Mr. Dysos t of hisrptei is contradicted ii the most express terms. y ,, Z` , `' , • 5 . "(:..110 *.• • •• To rat EDITOR or tms • Si R,—;.A• the tennis ph Coutwlttott haft acted eon.: fifty to established use In Withholding hoes the Public the **Pout of deals retibieell bb.theth, 1 bet leaf! to hand you the total of the finhaeriptintle pelt fished op td the 12th losttat, foe the accord" of which I PIS teach from • etrofel cninpetatfoo. Tout obedient orient, May 1,5. - sc RUT VtOtt. Amnia or Sabactiptless. winding rtidien t h is, .ES;i 59 ftgisimrliVrAnom dr DOTIES ox 11(1531 # 1? 1111' • • • -. PRODUCX. • llastdoßOH, M At 12.—Tho felloolog Oohs, saltlek is highly interesting to thh Comusbrcial *odd, oil posted up today in the Horses Hall :—By an Ukase of his Majesty the Emperor of Hestia, which was glade public tits the llth (280) of telt Meath, tbei Eaport Doty on the principal articled of naport hoot Russia has beep 'stressed 10 per eetit4 as hie* ; specified, .is.:— DUTY ACOORDINO TO TAR 2ARIV.OIII NI& In *liver. Milking 10 psi GU it. t. It. 47. Hemp, per bent, 40* 1 0 010 Fins 150 Ole Zinow - - it 0 Wheat, per Pithiest/ 0 15 0 le R‘e - - o'll 0 Poterb, per Birk - n 75 0 iii wait, pod - .: d5O 0 5 ltrimleli - - 1 0 0 10 Imered. per (whet, 0 -% 0 11.-nipt•eed - - 035 0 1 Si. Prrittsebacin Ahem tfi.. -by an imperial. Ukase, dated from iVaitan, 22d of Muth; 0. Si a great increase and attention of the inland ortiga. Lion of the Impire it a - Acted. In order to defray the great etpeoce !several tates base been at the *ml. . time ordered, is, for instvoce, an aueveentetion of 30 per cent. on some ett.ort duties. The merchants are to pay an addition of 5 pit cent. to the is they have paid hitherto ; from the possams one copitelti per heed more. . .• the barks *hid are employed in thO s.hs ate- . aigation to pay a duty in proportion to trait side end cargo: We hive had a thaw for three days, but the ice ou I the News is still so firm, that k is only since yeller , day that carriage/ have ceased to go over it. CIVIL CONTINGENCIES VERY CIVIL THINGS. The Tenth Repntt from the Select Finance Coma mitten het peen presented and published. It is 4. On Civil Contingencies," a very cemprehensise denomi nation of 8111114 , Cte; but though devoted In an puner.. ration 01 entrent etpences, sortie of Which are Pura. ordinary and scandalous enough, hal but few recom. mendations of retrenchment, plenty instances of abuses, bet few modes of ensuring the cottotry against fraud, or facilitating the efforts so generally revs's. mended for economy. The Committee, imweter, suite, and remark truly (and this part of the state. merit will show bow ezpences most wantonly incur. red are generally played to the wrong account), that the fornishin4 of [h.. Royal y.chts, decorations for *airmen, &.• nave been defrayed sit of the Civil List ; and t! wy notice; with reprehension, the eapelices incurred; and the length of time cnoseemdt I :1 the ,Commissioners for examining the duties, salaries, sod emoluments of officereof jetties. Thee. Commissioners are, John Campbell and Wm. Alet. ander, Esqrt. Masters in the Court of Chancery; William Adams, IL D., Junes &trough and Wil. liam Osgoode, 84r risiets at Law. The Cosi. missionets ehemseltes complete, that ensatisfacory answers to their letters were, in thd first instance, received from the Olken of the Court of Common Pleas; and that fe* answers have been received at all from the O&M of the Coert of &chequer. As a remuneration for theft past labours, the Com missioners hate already received no less a sum than 11,6541. Its. sid. IVAVAL INTRLMGENCg. --iirv DEAL, MAT 18.—Saded 'his morning for theltl4 vet, the Bombay and Charley Grant Indiamen,. and the whole of the hooteward.bound.--Carne down • from the River and sailed, the Lavinia, Cummins, for St. Vincent's; Averick, Manlove, for Viruinfris Queen Charlotte, Taylor, for (hi Cape of Oddd Rope; Radios, !Miens, for New York; and the Berwick, Smith, for giebee.—Arrited the &radon; Wightman, froth Nevrcistle for Naples; end the Sesostris, Thompson, from Hull for Calcutta, tn4l sailed ; also the Stockton, Harrison, from Calmat., and sailed for the River.—Tbe brig Vesta, Vonpier, from liautburgh for St. Thomas's, ran on ehore on the - Goodwin Sands last night, and *.r got dffsgaie by the assistance of a Rantsgato boat, with a 6 gasbag' and cable. Puirtamotere, MAT 18.-=Arrived the'f'ibre, from cruize.—The Vetsgeur and Rochfort Went oet of barboor etsd ant:Pored at Spithred. FALIMOUTR, MAT le.—Salted the Marshal Weld lington, Gordon, for Bengal; Mary, Stevens, for Gibraltar and Mogadore, having . on board J. S. Douglas, Eni. gad seitei Consel-Geseral to. the Emperor of Morgue.. Coat, MAT 14..---ArtiVeld the Cyril and Erne; LYIIIINOTOR, MAT 18. L Pitt into ear Roads ilia Peace, freer Memel bound , to Cork. The Master baring died yesterday off St. Albans, the vessel brought ep for the purpose of Wert* bin to-day. • _ _ _ Is Ttlt EICUEQUIR.- 4 -The Kinn SANE* Mat. In order to present an summons opinion takkur, place in the wind of the Public from wee Report 01T Setarda) l a prorePdinigal we have satlitivity -to steel that the Defendant in the oboe* emit was net Mr. JAaes Glut, Grocery of Csetlfig.cross. • HINORIft eit MI. TIMISSIt'S ASSIIONSWE of *as stancassintia. TIOR SILb. Ralpiagion, Thomas 'creator, J. N. rslillhweirip J. Be',ait H. Laaih. Heft. K. .Ittably• ter M. W. Bering. Sir?. Welton,. Hoe. W. =Le t a. sainiett. James Lewis, r. 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