The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-15 00:00:00

"F7.111:1 the 111111 V law, minim whirls the 1111 l isliment 4/f death was in• wlett.—The as holy, acting with th•ti sobriety, temper &tad 1111111evition. I. whirl they were distinguished., h i been • <4.1 mare 014e14 , i.111. Ik.ln our the fist to point ont :mil to repro. bare the exis,ence of evils of the lii2liest ui ivritiple. Hr co aid n ot fo , get. for to b , r2et it wmdil he lite heicht of in that the gookias were Ihsiiiiie<t .if those „he had elaimril di it the Slave Trade should be. oholislied, and had newer been fordo% ord in proinotine, ally esiise fa yonvable to the interests of humanity. Toe how • i i..servei the most serious attention, 0 d merely on Reenlist of the intlivittimin by %ohms it was •Pzoed, n o account of t h e importance of the rpleoinn to which it related• Tu t h at toe .ti,,,, it was jasita‘taiible to advert, withunt pressini• (though faintly) his deep regret, in common with the -whole Fiction. and Country, that it was 11'4W left for him to raise his feeble %Mee iv that ramie which hail hero so often. sisal so ably advocated by one whose name would be recorded a °one the benefactors of mankind, and whose memory would be fon•liv cherished by KR who revererweil tither public or private virtue—a man whose general knowledge was 0111 equalled by his professiorial attainments, and who hrotight to the subject all the lights of the onderstatidinz, and all the advantages of esperii nee. 'the obligatioe• of the century to the unwearied labours of that most distinguished ami lamentable individisol were arkietursiedgell by ft lends 411111 tneories—if, blared, the term friends could be applied is throe who loved hie; with devoted enthnsiassit, or enemies to these who, while they resisted his proposition., hail a d. n ii led the benevolence of their object, and the admirable intenti.lis -of him who introduced them. lie was a nom in wionsi public and private revellence were so mailed, and so equally hallowed, that it was difficult to say which hail,the pre dominance: those who knew biro only as a iklenilier of Par liement wonld probably hold that his pablic principle had the predominance.; while thu.e who had enjoyed his feienii. *hip would feel satisfied that the general benevolence of his views and projects was exceeded by the endeeriug qualities of his domestic life. The century had been deprived of Ilia assistance whets most it was Heeded, and when he bad pro ceeded hot a few steps towards the completion of his object; those steps had been made with caution tistingit'withittit bed. *mhos and if his progress at firm was resisted, oppositionin the end was disarmed by the persuasion of his eloquence, and convietion compelled by the force of his talents.—Althesigh Deprived of its chi...f advocate, it was still to be hoped that many supporters of the coarse yet remained, who, at lent in earnesteess and teal seem nut behind the distiognis• ed inthsidual of who he had ; it however. }nest sincerely to he lamented, that after all teat 4.01 been sad j an d written upon the %object of crimes sad ponistiments,.'since the days of lieward, so little had yet keen done to rsonedy the inereasini; evil against wlrieli the Petition was difected. Thu Mila/el all nngly commented on the present ea practice of consiouting pouislimeat ; a practice which, he saioi, arose out ol the severity °fent Criminal Code --a severity whirl' frequently prevented ponistinient being carried into effect., rendered it uncertain, and made the com mission et offences a kind of game of chance, and encouraged lenders as it wile to game away their lives. The illoorntr -11 (ember eliscluded by strorogly recoinmeuding the Petition to the consideration of the House. 'Die Petition was then brought up and read, and prayer/ that Parliament would, at 47 early a period as pusaiule , take the subject into curl s devotion. Sir J. M acriatoat then ga ve notice that Ire would, on this *lay three %%erica, brine forw.uti a tnutiou on the I. abject. Till: POOR LAWS. Mr. S. ltoneee, aftnr *time preliminary observation.' as to the proceedinge of the Cu ~,,, iittee oa the Poor Laws, which sat dieting the last Si...store said, he should propose to re appoint that Committee; Me was fully iinpregeeil with the importance of the *object to which be was Alluding ; and the Committee had telt it in an equal degree. Sii overwhelming /aid the evil appeared to theta, that they had been at a loss what remedy to preimee: at the same tine it wits impossible to disguise. from sun grieve, that the evil great as it WAS ; was 'till inereasitiz ; and in a little time, in many districts, mikes rhecktd, it would leave to the owner nothing bet the soil. He concluded by moving for the appointment Of a Committee. Mr. CunwEiv's speech on this subject. is considered as reeniring particular notice ; and we have, therefute, given it as a separate article ia stir 6 . 11 Page. Lord CASTLEREAGH thottgot it wmild be brtter to discuss he general question of the Pear Law* when his Right Hon. l'iiend brought in his Bill. li would be deceiving the House if he was to say that Guvrrnu•eut had yet sect] any mode of relieving the lower urdeo s by ttirowing the berden of them on any tam class is the state. It might look like cue teem for (trivet imient to unloose any regula noes on this subject ; when the co 1111111 l itity would take as a boon any regulation which The House generally mietit agree to adopt. The Committee had already gone a great length towards ameliorating the Poor Lases. He w•oeld n fstve hopes to the country; and although some claeeee in the con:month, were still sitiferitte, as in a great conotry there meat at all times be. there never Has an example of a tame rapid emelt:nation of ge Jere', commercial, and innomfaet tiring inlet este. Mr. BURRELL iestanced the c ise of Brighton parish, which lately paid 70001. fin Poor-rates, and last year th►y Amounted to 16,0001. the population being 19,000. The parish of Etat Grinstrail paid at the tale 0111. a year a man to the Pum-rates. The reason was, that there was more of population In the parish theta they entail find work for. 'fl u • saint prevailed all through the vale of Sussex,. l'he coneeipieuee would tie, that the to men wooild be ruitierl,thr lattil would Fe %SASH., and the emintry itself he lilt saietely t mined. All the pulite eltledettlied single men had horn oultgrd to be sent at the workhouse for want of c 'tiptoe awed. Lord CAATLEHEAGH allowed that this pressure prevailed in Sussex, bust 111 few oohs/ plaere. Mr. s iIETNURIM Suitt, it would lien deltteion to think that any legislative uterettre or f Ito tweet this evil, eteept by a dintitiation at taere. The hammer wilt the real sufferer though the fa ow•n and thie land-ow•uer were struggling with the pressure of the times. Alilermiii W AI rumArd 'timid not melee with the Noble Lord on the iurr-aeing prosperity of tee country. Ile 11.1,1 fensel au his rise . palish the dustless 'dine poor iiicti•oviiiig lip to moment. greet deities% idiot , pear mow. from the wine of gardens :oaten cottages llaun tindiuutre Ii Is gad passe.• the House, so pretence of gi,lng r nplunrorutto HIM ceorir they were for r etroding Nuulcmro nail eiewlemetes pans, and out one Not of lanai was 1:1%ell lo the pour. let Olit . tll lug p II islte• of his Ward, ie..% arils of Ind per•ous were for noo pAyiltrol of their pout tales, and fiPUMI inealmoh . Nothing woual r•us..ly tide evil but a r.hef nom the which now es the ',raid, y. 'hhe Como re was 44.itiel Iti b , .la•.' , . :'r The A riMi sirs( ruse to move e•• .%e* in a hall to awhisis rue l 4 tit. et .•U :I t• I :I • • . f THE NATIONAL REGISTER. had several !lines born braised before Pat!lament, but not with a view to obtain its abolition. The proceedin by ppeal, in eaves of murder, and other Ninnies, wyv very ancient, and proceeded from a want of eiviliration. In some in t4IICPS it hail been carried hitt, iqt . , et, contrary to all instiec. The Appal for Murder was of this desoription; Iterative no wait ought to be put noon his trial again. alter having been ac quitted by a competent tribunal. 'flue earliest alteration made in this Appeal way by Magna Chat ta, in which no woman can Appe tl , except the widow of ilia 1111 l Merril man. The next alteration w ;is. that a man acor due(' of twirler, might be Appealed within a year and 4 flay after; anti with this manifest absurdity, that a 111.111 flied for 11111111 U, and eon. vieted of nwtnlau¢hte•r, could plead that ronviction, in bsr fir an Appeal of the mot tier. So that an A opeo Ito the Trial by Rattle, it in many instance: the only 'node in which a man may pre% rot himself front bring invite a sacs' fire, by being cx(nwed to a ..•rood trial. The trial by Wager of Rattle for Xt•on, or Itobberv, was, in modern times, never re.orte•d to. %wither re ism( for the repent of this hat harionv custom was, that if a 111411 were convicted, the KM.: Mad no power s• pardon him ; the appellor alone being able in do so; and it rested on his forgiving or .indicative spirit to determine the fate of his adversary. lie then moved for leave to toting in a Still to abolish trial by and Appeals t i n !Stotler. _ . Mr. DeNata,i entirely concurred in esery observation that had bean made. It W 44 alnrist imposs:lde sead 41114• to trial a second time before and impreilitliced Jury. Hu busted the spirit of retinal wiiithl loilnw this ap with other alter ations which were erin,dly necessary. Che nankin waa then agreed to. Toe It-purt of the C nominee of Ways and Means wa bronchi no and agreed to. Ai • • Th., Telt EV-Gsaattat. bronglit np the Trial by 'Battle V•rdition Rill , wine': was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second tints on Friday nest, and to tie priuted. WEDNESDAY. USURY LAW I. Mr. Serjeant Osil.ow, purtnant to hie notice, moved for leave to loriug in a Kill to repeal the laws at present ex istine, for regulating and restraining the rate of interest to be paid fur the use of money. Having on repeated occasions, for. merly brought this subject before the House, be slionid not at present enter snatch at length into his former arguments. He was happy to find, that his opinions on the Finlike were those which prevailed now, nut only in the most eulightened countries in Europe, but also in America. He was certain those whe firs! proposed our present Usury Laws, were Ly no nteatis friends to good policy. He believed they had their origin in a perversi••n of a text of Scripture, which stated that ail juiciest was unlawful. The Horton' able and Learned Menilitr then proceeded to enter, as formers, into a re view of the laws npnn the sehject of interest, (ruin the time of Henry VIII. to the present ti n e ; and entitled to the opinion of Mr. &wham on this subject, who considerei: the Usury Laws as Isjttiens ; to which upiuiun , lie said, Or. Adam Smith latterly declared himself a convert. A Com mittee had formerly been appointed to ennithe into the effect of the Usury Laws ; and it :appeared brim( that Committee, that to avoid the laws whist Usury, annuities had hi some instances been granted for firm lives, at the rate of 13, 1 Land 13 per cent. interest. The lion. Jleutbcr concluded by moving for lease to bring in his fill. ',M. limp, seconded the mien', which be considered as one which would be productive of great public benefit. He etrold um but consider it a must extraordivary ciicnitestauce, that whils e rie individual was at liberty to employ his moues in the purchase of land or houses, and to make all the profit lie could upon it, another individual having money, shosald not he allowed to make the best interest he could at his pro. pet iy. Laave was given to bring in the fill, which was bron;ht up, read a Wit time, and ordered to be read a second tone or Monday next. Mu. Alderman Woof) moved for a Return of the Annual Expense of the transport of Cons its to Nev South Wales, and of the total AKIWAI Lispence of those Colonies some. 1815. —Ordered. xttros brought in a Bill for raising 20,000,0001. by Exchequer Bilk, towards the service of the present year. —Read r first, and ordered to be read a second lime to•mur row —atljout lied. TUURSDAV. The SPEAKaII acquainted the House, that Lord-Fulktst on, who had beet. elected for two 1101-01141111. had t•hosen to sit for New Sarum, one of the Boroughs for which he was elected. Mr. CURWeII, in presauting a Petition from a parish in Yorkshire deain"t the Poor LaWSI, took the opportunity of sry big, that though the Noble Lord had asset led his disbelief of the disti es" said to prevail in the maeufacturing and agri cultural disti lets, yet such Was he. feet. lord Cat rI.EHEAOH said, he nail not expresiel ans such disbelief. Hr had ouiy ead, it was not su great as bad been replier:cooed. The Petition was then ordered to lie Ott the tahle. Mr. Monet Obtained leave to bring in a Bill to light with Gass the parishes of 'it. Marti n 's-iii.the.Fields, St. Covent G ordru, St. Mai y's.in-the•Straud, St. Clement-Danes, St. James's, dry. dlr NhYritear 'naught in a Bill fur the better Recovery of Small Debts to ditfitrent Pais. Sir J. Jacesos moved fora Committee to enquire whether Cuntagi•noi Infection was incineist to Epidemic Diseases. Mr. W. 11 . V !IN thought Situilus K.IS a subject more tit fur the enquiry of medical men, than a Committee of the House of Commons. Itoatusost said, the question arose Olit of the Qaaran tier LIN'S. as they now blood. I)Socoverics had lately bern Matte, %%11'01 tended to sliew that the plague itself oat lout contagi:slit3 awl surely, it Wil• extremely important, to know wheiht•r it was so or not. This optoostiont had bee.. hi ought bet . ..re the Depri Intent to which he belonged ; and, a. it was a matter of go eat 1111 l meek' to cooniniesee, considering the state of tlirQ•tareHtineLaws,itwasdenaolctoascetlaintheh ll th. The qiie.tion lied been referred to the Coliege ut Pbysiciatis. upon whose recommendable, the Qu rentiute Laws had locen volaooli • lied; and their report wait, that the ut lama &wiring., tin which these laws wire thiatided, wie., in their opinion, imired. Soil, it was o +tont tont to a.ceo taut the fact anti s-stair of the evidence re•peei tug the evade onic that prevalieu las year. hr.; th ow.. donuts un that doctrine. It it was once siami•hed that t se pi ,41.. *4• ep,4rmic, a sd nut couotasionoa, vionid too 01 l'oe g at. vi Pitmen, to coin lit rec. Fur these rearms. he 44. 1 I.l.ldt..;ifyil 111 .111/1/411 tU (Ilia illlesttlell to a tit the riuti4r, which wabil be •e•ed in its Oup , ity, • , .1 .•,,, of •rirn'ifi erns Mr. W. W rem said, that after t.lr • ha s beeo said he would not °ppm tae motion; o 11. t.1..t coula ur , I (I Sir .I..lncgiON said, that if there hall not been strong doah s 4 o this questerm, he would nut have brought it feerward. Dr. Hoht e•I, who lead been :2; year: at St. Bartholomew', tio.pit a i, haul that he scarrcly ever knew an instance offerer being contagious. Mr. ItraNET rose to bnng in a Bill to starfish the tine of Clim ing Bop in sweeping chimeric!. The evidence before the and the appearance of there unhappy children in every oat's e'ai: . walks. must convince us of the nccess ty of abolishing thin pm. it had been mtertained by the Surveyor General's Ilmort, that be, • was only one in a hundred of the chimnies in London which con I not be swept by machines. lord Seeenur's chimeric' were ve difficult to he swept : but lee recommArde i a person who, he belie% d, had roccecekel in sweeping them. Eesilcs, rite chiermies m t difficult to he rwept belonged to the rich. One chimney in the Tower ms is hours in being swept by one poor boy.—Leave wistlico given to bring in the Hill. air .1. NEWPORT complafird that G. Dunbert. Eso. had been continued in his situation of Collector of E scene for the County of Goldin, after the Report of a Committee. had recommended t:.e abolition of his office. Ile moved for a copy of his rerapiMatineat. Ordered to be laid on the table. . _ _ Mr. F.t.t.tcs: said, the Right Tlnnn•trahle Gentleman orositc had said on a former me:Isla:1, that out of the eight milli° is due tat the Hank. five millions ha t been paid. Niw he (Mr. E. wished ta know whither the Rank had not retained Reehniii •r dills in its possevsion after the day on which tiiey were advertised to be pato, whicli would make up the sum said to he paid to ih tn. Mr. VawsITTART snid, that if the Dank dii h•dtl these rx. chequer Rills aft:er the day of payment, there was shwa-s s nnt.• the bottom or the account, specifying that. Toe five millions laded to by the Honourable Gentleman had been paid to the Ilan.. —Adjourned. FRIDAY. The lioute was summoned to the Rouse of P,iers, to hear the Royal Assent riven to the Westminster Hustings Bill, and the Bill fin the future Care of his Majesty's Person. Mr. MaNsetnt.l3 pre.ented a Petition from certs'n Menufaetu errs of Leiennershire, complaining of the hardships ebey at present labour under, en account of the want of employment in the woolen manufactories; and also from the Vrame-work-knitters. The Pi Ls tioaers also complained of the inttoductim of a spurious article, ti certain person., into the manufa.-tune of the articles in question; by which the value of their commodity generally was very much dete riorated. The Hon. Gentleman stated, that the patience with which the persons employed in the manufactories at Leicmer had borne the hardships to which they ha I been subjected, was deserving of the most serious consideration of the 'louse t and he now wished to state, that, should this Petition now be allowed to lie on the table, he should. on an early day, move, that ii be relkrred to the consideration of a Committee. _ . . . . . _ ...... Mr. FAME seconded the motion for the Petition being received; and observed, when the motion for referring the Petition to a Corn. mittee should be brought forward, he should hale en opportuni y of stating his opinion more at large. The Petition was then todered to lie on the table. _ _ Mr. CURWEN presented a Petition from Workington, praying a revision of the Poor Laws. _ _ .-.-.-.. -....-: A new Writ was moved for the County otr Tipperary, in the room of Lord Cable, now Eutl of GletigalL Mr. HE )(VET brought in a fill to re4ulate the mode of Sweep ing Chiniiiiv.. and ti prevent the future employment of Climbing Roy,. itmad a ti.st, awl ordered to be raid a wxond titae on Mom day.—Ailjourued. BUS' I'o .V SESSION.4'. arrrtt. PY THE PARIRIT OF RPAILDIWO AtIAINIT All 01OrIL OE REMOVAL. UT MIME CIIILDELN raom THI FARMS OF SKIRBECI. This rail' had very singular feateree.lin Forman, the legal father of the children, proved, what was not disputed, 14s having gained a settlement in Spalding ; and further de— posed, that the reputed mother of these children, Prudence Forman whose maiden liaise was Sharp), was his wife ; that he sold her, ab.ut 17 years ago, to a mall of the name of J. Holmes, for jive guinea , 'a tolerable wire for curb a caw modity ; lint perhaps wives sold better then than they do now !) and that he had not sines cohabited with her, or hardly seen her. The three children wet e all in Conti ; the eldest was little more than 12 year, of age. Aitilletitirate4 registers of bahtieui of these eltilelreit were produced ; front which it appeared, that they hail hero halitised be different names ; the eldest, .t Boston Church, Ili the son of Joseph and Ps oftener Holmes, alias Forman ; the second, at the ',Arne (horns, as the son of Prudence Forman ; and the this d, at Ski riseck Church, as the son of Joseph and Prudence Holmes. Evidence was adduced of these child' en living with, and living considered from their in ranee, as the chil dren of the said Prudence Furman ; and of their also I;ving with, and frequently being yelled, Holmes, as well as the.r being celled Sharp. These (without going formally into tai evidence) were the leading facts of the case; and Mr. Carter, of Spa/dine, who appeared for the appellonm, insisted, that Forman having sold hit wife, nod CCAS.'d to have intercourse with her, long anteretkitt to the birth of any of theme children, essitilleil with she to her eis us:At:lnc. n of the ease. Ilif.le CONN be no pretence for eoliodeviii2 them has his children; but that they thsi.t rallies be i.,lsea to tse the children of Holmes, the porchasei or the wife, his name they were babticed and frequichtlz. went. The Learned Advocate, though lie talked of calling ecideace that would very HMOs' Sirenglhell the ease, uncloiled by sod Mg, t h at Ito fell it sufficiently strong will t sushi so ; and. therefore would not take up tise time of the Court by calling any. On the part of thr respond. sits, the j 'er Mt. Hollway appeared, and ably argued their ease. lie gaoled from Blarkstone, from other established antliorities, and from the dicta of . Judge* in cases that hail come [rehire them, te skew that children born in wedlock wont be taken to he thoce cf their iegif parent•, unless ciremnsunees coold he *hewn that rendered that impossible to his the ruse; that tbrlass pie. suimee actress between man and wife ; that the sale of the wire by the husband was a scantlrilinvi artion, And deft iinental to the umlaut of :society, and could slut he set hp ass 11011' against the childi eau.' sight of settlement; sold chit it would tie monstrous , . to admit of a husband's cuusius foiwaid w custard' its the igene of his own wife. Os Jer of resole% 14,1 confirmed. At the Derby Seseions, Eloz.both Wow!, convirted being the mootiot-r to( six uao.tool as sir tcred t• the aconite er Correction, to third 141/0111 for tse.ve moron •. HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY.—The felt. w 11l pit a4rdpi., Isom • Batts Paper refers Ito rt,ueities, tior revit4l of wh.rh , a• it s Italy rrooukrd, one.t make human ty t--•• A llloo4llt, IR frilime 411.116 e, low. bran CO ..•1111It . J.for 'Rani of • 1.4..11, to ono.ov an inJtctmrut, tr•acnig hro ~ .tit is—eloorie a b atb r i ut tie 11,,eriptoun. ' Fists re. 1 ,1.1 on is Gigot, .it.s.tie it. 4 4.t: tie . to the Parish of Widemithe. tat.g. if opi••. t.llltltail Fre r% , 11. sr aeo, Idi y t0,,,0e.i eir•.t.o. hair brre tv tee ite:oit ut tak t g .ou Yr. .ul tt mfr. )t.ll - for 111 mot 114.4.14 , firb0l practi o o, h • s• Wily UMW{ di," • rr 111. 4•411 . 0•• tit of ...1 .: •cu upplyitt4 to t.to oharstrut to It t redress.'