The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-30 00:00:00

4 „, .- 9 ".... ,°c; ; . • . tr it N0.7-3,237.—V0L. XIII.] PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, APRIL 27. About two o'clock his Majesty , came in butte to the House of Peers, and being seated on the Throne. the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was directed to summon Cie Common , to attend. The Speaker and several Members of the House of Commons goon appeared; but, notwithstanding precautions had been taken to prevent the promiscuous admission of strangers. it was with difficulty the Members could approach the bar. No person was admitted into the lobbies of the House of Lords without a Peet's order; but the desire to see the new throne, and to be present on the opening of the new Parliament by his Majesty, caused an unusually numerous atteir ;nice of Members of Parliament. There were also more than the usual proportion of ladies present at the delivery of the Speech. The Speaker and the members of the Commons having got to the bar, his Majesty delivered from the Throne the following Speech : MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have taken the earliest occasion of assembling you here, after having recurred to the sense of my people. In meeting you personally for the first time since the death of my . beloved Father, I on anxious to assure you that I shall always continue to imitate his great example in unceasing attention to the public interests, and in paternal solicitude for the welfare and happiness of all cla , ses of my subjects. I have received from foreign Powers renewed assurances of their friendly disposition, and of their earnest desire to cultivate with me, the relation; of peace and amity. GENTLEMEN OF TIIE 110USEOF COMMONS, The Estint.ttTs for toe present jear;ilibetlitiiiiieforeyou. They have been framed upon principles of strict economy ; but it is to me matter of the derpse regret that the state of the country has not alloyed me to dirpefise with those additions to our military force which I announced at the commencement of the last Session of Parliament. The first object to which your attention will be directed is the provision to be made for the support of the civil government, and Of the honor and dignity of the Crown. I leave entirely at your disposal my interest in the hereditary revenues ; and I cannot deny myself the gratification of declaring that so far from desiring any arrangement which might lead to the imposition of new burt hens upon my people, or even migh diminish on my account, the amount of the reductions incident to my Accession to the Throne, I can have no wish, under cir cumstances like the present, that any addition whatever should be made to the settlement adopted by Parliament in the year ItslG. _ _ _ MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN. Deeply as I regret that the machinations and designs of the disaffected should have lcd, in sonic parts of the country, to acts of open violence and insurrection, I cannot but express my satis faction at the promptitude with which those attempts have been suppressed by the vigilance and activity of the magistrates, and by the zealous co-operation of all those of my subjects whose exertions have been called forth to support the authority of the AA's. The wisdom and firmness manifested by the late Parliament, and the due execution of the laws, have greatly contributed to restore confidence throughout the kingdom, and to discountenance those principles of sedition and irreligion which had been dis seminated with such malignant perseverance, and poisoned the minds of the ignorant and unwary. I rely upon the continued support of Parliament in my deter mination to maintain, by td! the Imams entruqed to my hands, the public safety and trangmliity Deploring, as we all must, the distress which qtill unhappily prevails among many of the labourint!classes of the community, and anxiously looking forward to its removal or mitigation, it is in the mean thne our common duty, edixtnally to protect the loyal. the peaceable, and the industrious, agai•ist those practices of turbulence and intimidation, by which tile period of relief car. only be deferred, and by which the pressure of distress has been incalculably a4gravated. I trust that an awakened sense of the dangers which they have incurred, and of the arts which have been employed to seduce them, will bring back by far the greater patt of those who have been unhappily led astray, and will revive in them that spirit of loyalty, that due subinis:Mn to the laws, and that attachment t o the Constitution, which subsist unabated in the hams of the great body of the people, and which, miller the bless . . 4 of Divine Providence, have secured to the British nation the enjoyment of a larger share of practical freedom, as well as of prosperity and happiness, tlnm have fallen to the lot of any nation in the world. ilia Majesty left the House at half—past two o'cli:.-k, and an adjoumnittit ensued during plewure. We were struck on this important occasion by the elegance which reigned in every part of the Cliamber. At five o'clock the I.OIW CHANCELLOR again took the Woolsack, and strangerg were admitted to the bar. THE AI/ DRESS. The LORD CH A NCELLOR then read the Ying':: Speech from the Wools.'eli, and it was also read to the House by the Clerk of Parliament. Lord tiI.AN VILLE ro-e to more t. c Addre3s. EarIGf.WSV E Olt in 3, on tne firt iticctitig of Par- I; 17;;;. re;i l W'r:iiiiiel6ing rolled up; and tied round with strini I u n derstood (bent to be band-grenades. I raw an it rot belonging to Brunt. My waster cam iu about clev atonal( IL° toisittr. Qi)ur Ulna, Constitution anb U abut• SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1820. the wisdom or the firmness of the late Parliament. lie was per suaded the bills they had passed had done much mischief. The Aildre.a was then carried—Nem. Dis. 'rlie Earl of till A ETV:Still ItY, on the mo.ion of the Earl of Liverpcol, was re-aoisiintal Chairman of Committees. Adjourned till to-morrow. FRIDAY. APUIL The Lords met at hulf-pa,t one and. after prayer:, pro ceded to Carlton Palace with the The Lord Chancellor, previous to their departure, adjourned the House to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TlifilL , DAl", APRIL 27. The full attendance of Members enabled the Speaker to take the Chair about a quarter before two o'clock. At two o'clock, the Usher of the Black Rod, Sir T. Tyrwhit, summoned the House to attend in the Flintie of Peers. The Speaker immediately left the Chair to proceed to the House of Lords, but the rush was to great to get near the Right Honora ble Gentleman, the Members pre,ent tiling very 'omicrons, that many were eventually prevented Rout being able to follow him to the Louis. Amongst thuse who were thus thrown out of the procession were the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Drage Bathurst, and Sir W. Curtis, &c.. About a q‘ntrter past two o'clock the Speaker returned. Ile then left the Chair, and returned at a quarter before ihree, when the swearing in of Member commenced and proceeded till four o'clock. The SPEAKER. at half-past four o'clock stated, that the House had been in the House of Peers to hear the Royal Speeei of which, to prevent mistakes, he had obtained a copy ; and the Right lion. Gentleman then read it. The teadingof the Speech being concluded, Sir F. KNA'FCHBUL rose to propose an Address on the Speech, which was as tibual an echo of it. The Address was carried Neni. Die. In a conversation respecting the Civil List. the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that it was intended to bring that question before Parliament on the 4th Alay.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, APRIL 28. The SPEAKER stated to the Hous e , that he had received a Letter from the Marquis of Hastings, acknowledging the re ceipt of the Thanks, dated March 4, 1819. Mr. SYKES presented a petition from Ship-owners of Hull, complaining of the new duty on Wool. Mr. COULBUBN presented a petition, complaining of an undue Return for Portsmouth. Ordered to be taken into consi deration May 25. Lord .1. RUSSELL gave notice, that on Tuesday next be should move for leave to bring in a bill to disfranchise Gram pound, and to transfer the right to Leeds. lie should also, if it were consistent wits the orders, move to curtail the sentence of Sir M. I.opez. Sir H. PARNELL (for Mr. Grattan) gave notice of a Mo tion respecting the Human Catholics fur May 11 Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice that, after the holidays, he should bring forward Ins digested plan on the subject of Educa tion ; the delay originated in waiting for documents, not in any dinicnition of his conviction of the necessity of Education. Re cent events, indeed, convinced him of the necessity of general Education on solid principles. Mr. LAMPTON said, that he should brin. forward his mo tion on the Spate of the Representation tin 'lustily June t. Lord A ITIIOIIPE gave notice. th:.t on Tuesday next he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Insolvent Debtor's Act. Mr. R. BATHURST gave notice, that on Monday next he shruld move f ICAVC to bring in a Rill on the subject, as sonic doubts had arisen regarding the terms or the pretent Act. On the motion that the Report of the Addrms be received, The Address was ordered to be presented by the whole House, when ids Majesty had announced his intention to receive it. Mt. BROUGHAM moved for accounts of the produce of all funds at the disposal of the Crown, and deemed nut to be wider the rontroul of Parliament. Mr. NUJI E desirtsi to know whether this applied to Gibral tar. 154.0nu01. having been received during the last reio; if it did nut lie wished such object w be gaMed. Mr. BROUGHAM said the amount would he gained. The accounts were to complete the papers:l:read, prcionttd The CI IA NCEI.I.OII of the LXCIILI2CLR had no objec tion to the motion on such statements. Agreed to. and the accounts were ordered of the application of the sum, after Mr. LIU at E had mentioned that he had in vain looked for accounei of his late Majesty's property. Had any been left? The CH ANCELLOR attic EXCIi E4IUEIt rephird, that he had no official knowledge of there being any will; but he reason to believe tha, his late Majesty had left a will. All the accouats were ordered, Mr. Brougham observing on the necessity of classification in the manner of making them out. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for accounts of retired allowances to public "dicers during the last year.—Ordercd. Alt. 'FIEHN EY said, he saw in the papers before the House a sum of .35.5,0001. paid to the privy purse; what did that mean. wheat did it come from ? The privy purse was limited to The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that it came twin the Colonial icsoutecs, and was applied according to inn:allow:al tv.age. Alt. 'll I.:RNEY :O&M. that fartlier enquiries ought to be made; there ought to be no object tons to exp:„tation, Adjournat. CAPTURING ELEPH.INTS. [Pram the Madms Couricrl Early in February last, about 3,000 people were assembled in a place of rendezvous on the skirts of the Jungle, and the haunts of the eleilliants being ascertained, a semi-circular line of Feople provided with li:e- amts, tom-toms, &c. and extending hir several miles, tvas formed round them, each end of the line reaching a chain of hills, the passes "Sitleet uf the (7eitned, acal one of the C..binet• 2 -1 common parlance they are ealled hie Alajvs.'s Man ri tem On the Tuesday before the intended dinner, Ire tyßicE 90. deep hills, and when they had once entered, and the passes from it properly guarded, it was next to impossible for them to escape ; in this place there was abundance of food and water ii,r several days. This, however, was not an easy task, as the ele phants frequently attempted to force the lines - and. get off to the eastward—but the line gradually deceit on them, and halted at night, and kept up large fires to prevent their breaking through ; and after ten or twelve (lays' labour, at last succeeded 5 . driving them into the intended place, where they were closely surrounded, and kept in for several days. In the mean time, at the debouche of this pass, se• veral hundred people were busily employed-diming a deep ditch, enclosing about a quarter of a mile of ground, leaving only the space of a few yards as an entrance untouched. I wo ditches were cut from the entrance, to a hill on one side, and to a rock on the other, to prevent the elephants passing the enclosure. On the outside of the ditch, a matting of brandies about six feet high was placed, to give it a formidable and impas sable ppearance, and green bushes and branches were also stud, about the entrance to conceal the ditch, and to give it as much as possible an appear ance of Jangle. When all this was completed, the pcople were removed from that place, and those at the other end commenced tiring, shouting, and making as much noise as possible, with drums and cholera horns, whisk so intimidated the elephants that they made the best of their way to the opposite end; and the people following close, with the assist ance of a few rockets, drove them straight into the enclosure, when the remaining part wa.: dug away and the ditch completed. People were immediately posted round the (Inside of the ditch, armed with long spears and matchlocks, to repel any attempt the elephants might make to cross it. Next day, eight tame female elephants were in troduced into the enclosure; the Mahouts couched close on their necks, covered with dark cloths. The object of the tame ones was to separate one of the wild from the herd, and mob him. When this was accomplished, four Kut Mahouts, whose profession is to catch elephants, crept between the legs of the tame ones, and having fastened strong ropes to the hind legs of the wild fidlow, secured him to the nearest tree; but the Kut Mahouts then retired towards the ditch, anti the tame elephants, leaving the captive to his struggles, went after others. In this way '2 3 elephants were captured in six days, without the parties engaged meeting with the slightest accident to the great amusement of the spectators, who perched on trees overhanging the enclosure, witnessed their sport without sharing in the danger. The sagacity of the tune elephants— the address and courage of the Mahouts in approach ing the wild ones—the ansiousmotnents which passed from the cast of the first rope, until the lagt band was tied—the rage of the animals upon finding them selves entrapped, and their astonishing exertions to get free—alforded altcg►ether a scene of extraordi nary novelty and interest. One of the elephants calved in the enclosure ; and the young one was sufficiently strong to run about with its mother the first day. To naturalists, it. may be satisfactory to know that the young elephant sucks with the mouth, and not with the proboscis, as is generally suppoied. It is said that four persons applied to the Sitting Alderman at Guildhall, on Tuesday last, to make depositions against the man of the name of Edwards, so often mentioned in the late trials, but who w:.3 not brought tOrward as a witless. Time persons were prepared to charge this Edwards with the crime of high treason, and ilia: he hail instigated others to join in the atrocious att:zdk in.' hinted on his Majesty's Ministers. In their prop. , ::ll deptki. Lions they enumerated various ftets in corroboration of the charge, but all which had happened in the county of Middlesex, not within the limits of the city, and therefore Alderman .tit W. Domville and Mr. Alderman %Wood thought fit to convey the intended depositions to Lord Sidmouth, and desired the persons to go to the otliee of the Noble Lord.— The Noble Lord wrote an answer, saying, that as [ll Witai l waturti.oftike —iit-vzoor o c n ot t i h n e ni t t .o w n i o l v b .i y na tl u ir i e v e rui l;ls . , who were • raopbbcpreLdne''d" ', *:. ,-,? • i„' 4-11 6. . , . I 1 1 4 0 ? . ) r•%-t -... a