The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LO Ds. MONDAY.. is*/ Is. Lora LIIIITheWiI roar. por.hant to his satire, tone.. for thit floodnetloo tiptanther or I) •enon.nts and Pao,r. c e . .atire 10 the eess-itin of she t•I Java and Banes to the Dutch. Tl,p Kilde Lord ohaerwetl, that this stinjert had already been berm e tbotr Lar.1.1.1114; and ass he nn.ter.too4 Sher is lie no o I.) lite pi utlnetian of the Papers, It ot!suld I.e inine.•e•intl t.r hi:a to ts., lain tile Milne by a tang statement. The Popery he now moved fir wete rates,- Idled to afford their turdidtins Inciter information ; and would Woks shot In the Tiroty of Paris we had abandoned the ioterests of the Sultan of Poloolbahc owl 'thb 'Crests en tered Into with hint ;`atel li.ti given on hi., interests to the Dosser. erlitithtally disrettaiicd trim; altlionelt the provi.iions of the Tseatv were founded no the set viet.sycsitlereti bv•the Salta,' in preserving the tinich Authasiqrs. tin a forcer arra...toll. trout massacre.; Tlii• Noble Mai rink eciticinclisd by %undo? for • nitinher of Parer, coitus:bed old' the shoji cI, et Welt wrre ordered.—Ailjuttioe4). Ty Esn %Y . • • The Sn:ar and Malt Duties Bill 'lan read a Peennd time. The other aids un tho tabk orgre forwarded a Adjoutned. . . IVED?iE.‘4I)AY. A Mumaze. from the Contimia. , brottielit lip the ‘.30 , millions ' rstartuotip:r fill, . Hill, width& Brisltol Gas Liest Hill. The Bats w e re teal a first , And.Oclierell to he readltiCC(oll4l tithe iv-morrow. The Malt and Sugar Ditties 13111 was read a third time and .passcd.—Adjourned. T:irRSDAV. - . • Ile Royal Assent we% trivet) by Contnsissten to the annner Malt attd Sneer Poly Bill. The Conunissioners were•—the . Lord Chancellor, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Melville. Lord Lasisnowst presented a Petition from two indivitht.. als who, lie said, had to complain of a vs ry grievous hardship. The Petitioners had obtained a decree in the Court of Chancery, as creditors agai.tst Ate esta:e of a lunatic. The property of the lunatic, however, consisted. principally of ecpyhold estates; over %t hich, owing to the omission of the word " copylrold" in the Act %shit+ giis e the Loril Chancellor jurisdictioo over the property of lunatics, the Chaneellor had no contralti ; and, therefore, in the present case, could snake to order. The Petitioners, therefore, prayed that their Lord • ktiips timid take the subject into their immediate consider ation, and amend the Act in question.tOrd CHANCELLOR COlioaDretl with th e N o bl e m artin i, .41tii to• the hardship ut the Petitioners' ease, and of the necessity .• • • 3 .14testrawas for au amendnirnt of the Act in ipiestiou. He felt ao forcibly, that he should lose nu time in presentil . a 11:11 Eo their I...qrtlshils to render the lam in 1116 ease iNvi A ; ;‘•ti'cient. . t • FRIDAI . • STATE OF THE PRISONS. Vits Mellish of LASISDOWNE said, the !Anise would yero'dect Abet he repressed un intention some iillieigO • to move for the appointment of a Committee to entire into tire state of the •• v e i, s od s o f the country, unless the subject wayshertly liken • •••11P fiy Geyer orn'ent. (lit that occasion he moved for certain ret,:rns ; and seeing a Noble Viscount in the House, lie wail ,poisions. to ktubwwlt ttklr.tlte returns were Insuch a state as a Consmitteo bring soon appointed ; and whether ti..e !sail s ilissmintwas prepared tomove for the Committee ? # llst•Nolile Marquis witted, tha be willingly conceded the • r:OtIO0 fu his Majesly's Goverioneot ; bat it they were out • prtptsreti;6rslibuLtl isleve upon the sit bject himit If. ;Visconitt Sitsittnrrit: said, w:t, lit; intention to hate yen notice this day, that on Monde y next lie should lay be fore. the Hunee, not the whole of the evidence re t p e uting ptisous, but a great part of the returns moved for by the 'Noble , Marquis. At sometime hi' bonld give notice of 41 istentionto move, on 'f Intraday, that the said returns be referred to a Select Committee of the Mllie. The N'oble Visiroant then laid. upon the table a return respecting the 'iritteber of prisoners in the County Jails of England and !Vales' beta een 1810 and 1818. • ,„'.l'hir, Marquis of LANSDOWNE asked whether the returns • • .yern 41:am all prisons ruder local jurisdiction, as well as co-cagy p riso no • .I . ..7rd . Sitistarrtt was not able to answer the que.o ion. The • icrinisitiou fer information hail hest mail, in of the c ;Jet of the House ; and if that form did out produce all the • Tifflittn.l retitt . treit by the Noble Marquis, esery sLtiN,biDOO **Sall be filt 4totofford a reinetty. . .SLANT TRADE. 'The Marquis of Lap/snow n n then lose oat the order of the lay,to more Ter Papers respecting the Aliclition of :he Slave Trade. He first adverted to t i te digit: Lope enter. tatted of a general disposition amongst all C.e European Powers teratiolish the African Slave Trade ; Bad the refine he sri:el it became incumbent on him to call ilu atteotion of the House of. the treaties conelititeitio 1617, with Spain, Putt andithe Netherland-. lty *Lore Treaties, taranission• 'Ti wese to he seen out to adjudicate and cLudeniei.veriviils infriagitig the law by cair)iog en rite slave trafsc.--He • complained of delay in she : appoiatment of Coutmissioneis ; • and stated, that in the epuria of last autumn, when tbomt 'fa eaties oven to have been carried Into acct . , die Spanish :slave Trade was carried on to' as event 'nebeee lief ore a:a cceded. A representation of the fact was made to the Ad , Iniralty in December last ; and the answer nos• that no Vessel could make captors', becale•e sic instructions had been issnesf to the Commanders • of ttia•Alajesty's sldps, directing them is the eaerittliin if that duty. Th e T reat i es oote to be earricitfiato etiectiaithin one year-Vier the ratification ; aid nothing appeared' ta-h:iie been acne In last autumn, when the Spanish Slavt Trade was, peculiar., to go on without in terruption. The Noble 'Sloe quis-ctinichoded by marina, 'bet tucrc be laid before diet Honor Copies of :411 appointments and inset it:licies sent to etniisnainifts to carry into. taevrition the Couvrctiotts mit!, Spain, Porttegtil. and the NCtherlands, fort he complete A troti tins Gf the 'f fide. • Lord v it,Lh did stet oppose tire matron ; bnt mitoy to :e to explain, that no coanuilasiodera relabel-he tam( out, sir Irroaceseut he moiler, before the Act passed to le the right of sear -h. The esirt Oft did atilt pass truij a shun tine before the ditsolation of le,t Parliament. Lord HoLLa voutendeed there had been delay. The EArl 01 L:YLRPOV). stated, that great difficiilty hart occurred ill - 1 , " coring persons prover to execute the coot mrssion. No time would its future be lust in carrying the tt *sties into extent ion. Ibeatotijn teas gained, sad rise lipase adjourned. - . • THE NATIONAL 111%1SM( HOUSE or COMSIONS. 1410 N D4Y rgs.U. . , Mr. W. Dossus prekente4 a•Poitictis (fern t hi. !Wig;Nrstes of Edifiburgil. nu 1M 1 .6)..ct nf fopylviug the c.ty w.tii naccr. arbich w.s• rvferr.d t. a Committee. _ Sir C M••11C 411 [nought up the Report of the Crrownittee opal the Leornow.er fiudim; that the oanteuf Sir W. C. Fairat, Aphid he erased from the remits, and that of J • Einar um- Rai l , %.,twitotod so its Ohre, which was ordered to be den. It the Cl,'► of the Ow:to. Ale. Alit' rcliel WtHrtn picoenied a Petition lion' the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, unit - Common Canard of London, praying that the ifutt.e 41,1 tato. w Prostitution. The Wn. Alderman oh‘erved, that he hail nn measures of his Dart to propose 'you the subject, but thought it called for the attention of the Law Office's of the WAGFR OR RATI'LE. The ATTORNEY CiEN IE, liner a few prefatory remark•, moved the Committee on the Ts i.ll by Battle Abolition Bill. Sir F. BUIIIvETT hoped ?he fill would "he re-committed, when he intended to •uhnsit aoute .u.eminteuts. ZI wasoloubt haid Om a limn should he tried In ice for the s:tipb. Wren's.. hot in• the ca. , ' of iitovenlionA for high treasonost the snit of the Cto trii, such a. wecalm:might be fa'y our:Adel° die rights of ilie subject • .. • Sir J. AlauttaTestt said; that a Bill like the pteaent Lad been Jundly.eol:ell.for by the iiitett enlightened toms flOf tact 50 years. fie had not, in (Art, anticipated !lie siighte%t opposition to it. Tit, Bill then wells theohgli the Committee; when the Report .a- rpopi•pol, 0ra t ...0:4, ft. nu t.k. n iou further eunsiderilthm on Friday a'enni;ht,. • . . USURY LAWS. Mr. Serj. OsisLos* Moved the secousl reading of time Usury Laws .Repeal Bill. Mr. CALCULI?"' m1l0111(1 not oppose the second reading of thy Alit, nor even its going ihto a Committee ; but upon the bring. in up of the Report should give the proposed measare all the uppusition in his power. Mr. PIVANCROU thought the proposal experiment too bold In the present state of public and private credit. ik could wish the Bill to hr withdrawn. Mr. &•r j. ONSLoW thought the proposed measure would be higlily advantageous to the cou n try. The Bill was then read a second time and committed for Wednesday. Mr. MARTIN, of Galway, moved for a copy of the Bill of Indictment fur Perjury, found against Edmund Burke, an at toruey, and the subsequent proceedings thereupon. The Hon. Gentlt man priceeded to state the circumstances of the ease. and to at I ea,gin the conduct of Mr. Baron Maclellan, who had refosed to put off the ti ial of Burke, in which he (Mr. Martin) was the prosecutor, though a material wiiness of his was no table to attend from indisposition. Such conduct he conceived to be mast outrageous.. • Lard CAVTI.EItIti Imre testimony to the high character of Baroq Mile:tiltin, which ass iliferiOr to that of none of the culightened Judges to vitltei country.—As.tim•individmilitm l•repterenied The - Irish Go..ernment would in a, few days he in liis place in the House s he wished the ;notion of the lion Gen tleman to stand fur a notice., .The prOcceditig in tlre.cbse of a Judge was one of much • delicacy, and demanded, the 'oust gt avc cousideraticht.ATheraumeuhveri , ationi front Wynoe, the motion n, asid nut i e gia eu for that elay fort nigh Vint (fed.' ' • TUESDAY. Sir G. WECSTER presented a petition from Brighton; in Sussex, ag.iiast the Poor praytnit rritef. Ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Poor Mr. Hutaa.presented a Petition from Moutrose, setting forth,that the Royal Burghs of Scott Ind had originally the ii;;la of .electing their ownlfagiateates,. 61‘ihich privilege they had been deprived, and praying tome restored. Ordered to be laid en the table, and to be printed. Sr C. Monet presented a Petition twin the Ozeitpiers and Owners of. Land in Northumberland, alledgitig that the :soil of the kingdom was sufficient for the population ; th..t it is impolitic to allow of the import from foreign coon , ty free, of artielesthat ate produced in our own ; and piss that the Petition be referred to a Committee. The petitioutlrs were of the most respectable chat Neter. Ordered to lie oar the table, and to be printed. S:r M. RIDLEY ruse to move for Accounts of the number of Sui charges fo,ade on Farmers for selling Horses without having liotse.desier's Licences; cod also fur Surcharges on ocem sional Surcharges. lie was of opinion, that a most grievous., system 0f Surcharge existed in the Assessed Taxes ; and it the Right Hon. Gentleman • did not bring forward something to alleviate glicvauces of this nature, he (Sir M. It.) VI mild. Mt. VaasscrranT said, it was only lately that tie had heard • any complaint, and had immediately givi.ll orders ter every information on the subject, Tiir Returns would take some I time before they were made oat ; anti when they were, some method perhaps would be hit upon to remedy the grievance. Mi. Alderman WAIT/IMAM complained of surcharges on the Assessed Taxes in the City of Loudon. The motion was then agreed to. Sir J. NEWPORT moved for leave to bring in a Rill for es.. a'alishing reward , . for saving the-lives of seamen and passes. seri shipwrecked or in d miler. T..e rewards ate proposed su e paid out of the carce it any saved; if not, to he paid by tile public. Thera hail been for some little rewards for Loin; c..rgoes; but, stunge to say,.noue fur saving human lives. Mr. VANSITTAftT •441.111.11 as to the principle, so consonant to humluity, these could be no objectival. Mr. D. GII.SeRT advised to incorporate the R.II with sue Se intended to bring forward for the recovery of salvages, &c. hie J. NI wPoto: Rail au (objection to that, bat hoped the MMus would, in the owed tituo , sutler his Bill to be hrtrught in. Leave given. The Twenty Millions Exchequer %via read a third time and passed. Upon the motion of Mr Lushington, the Roue went Into s Corwrairee nit the Assessed Horse Lax. Mr. Cuit wES wished to call Ilse attention of the Committee to the hardships to which individuals we,e liable under the present iYibleilt,-He knew au Widener of an indlvlthial hitting beer. of.;;lgtil to Lay the stun of 111. Its. instead of C. Ss. Mr.LusniacTon said, toe object was, to continue tile Act of last Session; and the Hun. tientleman rte the Cuuu mittee Into odor. any clause he thought proper into lite Mr. Centres expressed hi, intent 1011 of dwiig sii. Mr. W . s . elfin adserivil to theca., ofpacesk.pt by farmers and botch, is, fur the purpures of their business, itas.ua been etial ed lc interwar), sea. In our case, when the Local 01.11.• iiii , ,kners had decided that a hone ut that dews iptiuu tame tinder the descriphun ut one kept tor lilt purpose of aigricui ture, the decision head been reversed iu (heal. Mr. LUSHINGTON ob d, that the decisions on that point were gitutly at va►iance *Alit each other; :u►d that lime . . .... 0" FED. 21 - rocoperbrosior roartoiefit was is welted. liwr lirFort iitas thole ordered to lir rvird ivetl to-whoriam. he Sena/ten grid, he bad to srquriLl the Home that 'h e P. 11600.44 attains* ihr retsina of urn. o.t. roe Oxfuld I B A aip : ttet e I to ruirr.iggto rees4ri.zarre. it, the time al.. politer , / b •.• law. The petition Ira. tilt tt Gt P tricetrti. The SPILAKEIt ahe itarattn•.l the Home :hat lor haJ tPeek ti t a letter (rim the Ma. W. this, statics that he had •rt out in ot•ediener Is the order of that 11.1r.e, to attruil to his plate; bag he had twee takest ill in On the 'station et Sir Lt. %tumor. the time fer Mr. Qniu•t *ttrtidier In his plats w:t► entorged till to tuorrow weight.— Adjoin ut tl. wi:DNEq)AV. Sir WM. et FITTS took the oath and Itis seat for rtleetiloo p , Mr. CURWhN presented a Petition from the Owners a n d Oeelpiet it of Nod in eel lain Parihhil of Yorkshire, praing that Lead Alines might be nude rateable to the Poor ratio,__ Laid on the table. bi:. g l..boatiNoTnn brought np.the Repeat Cronrnittre roma' the Act rektive t 0 tlar tray upon iniae<.pd horsem ; when a Bill mite °Mei etl to be brunglit in confotaaaable t, the Bosom. titan. ( 4 •6(N I. Mr. S. WonTr t:r sidir4i; tlat1101;efil hi hi• hand a relition from the 0 Her% end Orenpiers of Land the West Ridi ng . g ir th e roauty of York, fir pi otecttug Julie! against the importation of foreiun corn. Air R. WiLsoN rose and obsetyed, that he thought the coon. try Gentlemen would hire done n u n h hear or to halo stifled such petitions, and • miters of tho same trainee, as had her' lately pre4ented to the House. lit the present it itated state of tho fs.elings of the lower chilies of %Deady. While the pr o . prietors of land wer e so solicitor's about their tisen intere.r. he bad done swilling whatever to ameliorate the condi;:.., of the agricultural labastrers: The Mien' in' classes of pre_ tend were vilifering malt r very severe pressures : and he gave warning to the Petitioners, that shonld more Petitions of this nature be ',resulted, the table of' him House world soon he covered with Petitions agaima the existing Corn Law , . H. hoped the great agricultural proprietors would think of 1:i minkbing, the hortheffir uf the people, and not engage in such ra.ll pursuit. us they seemed to be at present embarked in. Mr. S. Woterxett had given no opinion LI3 to the prayer of tile Petition. All that the Petitioners asked for was, to be allowed to wove the allegations in the Petition before 'a Ceas. maitre of the Howie. He fur otte•entild.not consent to state smelt a Petition.—(Hear, was the dirty or the Meta hers of that' blOnse to be ifiepartial to all classes of their con stituents. He lied told the Petitioners, that the present was not the proper time for such a Petit:on i , but he could do no more. cot • ently nytlr his pnblle ditty. S i r R. Wtr.surr, in imply:tattoo, observed, that the agitarou of such a question atAltap,resent momettmighLbe , pratdwctir e of mild, mischief. Mr. Aldertuau Woon thoughts a Committee might be ap. pointed in order to prevent the public mind from !mina. a tato', though he thought a motiou to that purpose would be neGaiived by the Hume. Mr. Welk is could not accede In motion for a Committee ; I as the consideration of AOC% a qnestion was no ni.ttter of ie. difference ; and no 'savant:iv would arise loin the thscession. Every Member of that !loose must remember the alaim created by the diseussiatis at tile time of the Ono Bill ; and it would perhaps have been setter, had•the Hasse i . .Lodaitaid from legislating on the subject.. Sir J. tiRAH AM thought, that alter whet had fallen from a Right Hon. Gentleman. ( Mr. F. .Robinson.) WI a failtier evening, the present question had hero set at rest. • A Member whose name we Could no t l ea: u , regretted that the gallant General had brought a ebarge agelbst the cultural interest, which was as winch entitte.! to the pr.oteetion o f t h e Hoe t e.e a any Hof the classes of the community. Sir R. WILSON acid. lie thought enough lied been already done in favour of the Agricultural interests.—The PelllioO was then read and laid on the tattle. SCOTCH BURGHS. • •' Lord A. HAMILTON presented a Petition frossieertain Burgesses end part of the Corporation of the city of Perth, against the system (4'4of - election in the Scotch Burghs, and praying that their Constitution might he sineuiled.t;:imid ou• the table.' •" CHIMNEY SWEEPERS. Mr. OMIIANYkY. presented is Pci•tion' front certain Master Eliinisseraweypsps against the thianuey-sweepi Regulation Bill; otiservisig at the s4llle time, thountany nias could not be swept by ineons of isiscliitici an,f Mat the Bill eoultl prevent rarislipaupers from bAing-lokas as op prentices by Cliiinbry se petters. Sir J„ Volute • coacurred• with the last speaker. lu the present rage fur legislation, 3 law might be made against a sailor being teat to the mast-stead. do 411,-rat ion shwa!! rather be made in the roust' nriiun of which ;mild stsperseile the neressity of the Bill. BINNET stated. that 'you the piinciple of the lion. Meinber no less thou 800,000 in London m ost be altered. Tim modern daintily's were h the mot iliffivii!t to be swept. ' Wirll respect its a sailor being mist In the ut..st.. bead, be did not tin.igiiie ;hat siting era kinibril tinder his feet to make him oseets•i the quicker. Sir J. Youate Sahl, No; but lie is sometimes started wills a eat-d•nine-tails.—Laid nu the table. WAR . IN CEYLON. Sir. W. De Cavern:my ta•keil if it was the intention of Minister to lay any information before the House on the subject of the war in Cevlem. Mottle' no explanation he give., he e.uoiald himself call for documents upon the sathjact. Mr. GhuutußN 1.1(4 . 4.'45t-dr huthstif read)) to afford all tits information in his power. Though no official neeetiots hail been received, there was tarty reason to behave Slant the di,- , nstraocts in 51145 1441,i1d weattld speedily he tertitineted, HIGHWA Yi AND TURNI'IKV.S. 111 r, PROTIICROE stated, that tt was hia intention to move f ur a tithe' cononi; tee, In cowtitter the Arts relative to High. ways and Turnpikes in Ettgland and %ales, :.aid a hat abet atiosas it tuitoet he eap.•dient to make in them. The e xtent ln those !aglow's, s was 23,0j0 trades; the expt•nce ht making them had atnonu►ed to the •urn 01. 7,000.000 f. ; and the :withal en penee of keeping them in lemur a nioneeteel to nearly 1,303,0301. By pauper ri gtilatioas, he aas of opts/lon, that ell saving might be etturteel, and a !mat redaction be mask is the place et the &Great' articles of life. Cli I MI: EY SW F:EPEItS. Mr. BENNIFT mOvill the order of the Day rot the Commit tee on the Cbiamey eeper.' ttegaloho m 8.11. Mr. OKILAIVICIA stated, that upon elapiirs at one of the Fitr-othees, be bail learnt that the minting of tires in London woo from 6 to 70 in a month, and that only tno out of 63 of diem took place in eisimities that were swept by meant f the machine. 'Dough the precise utiwber of