The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-03-08 00:00:00

- - 1 11..m ii i 7 N I S ; tLL i t.J . P.n.( :•,-. • z: A 3 i t . vckkitCLA-' itC4 3 tdi:a 7- r • A • . 4 t A ' t , )-[a-t i(n o ..45v:rricuya . • LONDON, Tiltlli DAY, MARCH 8, 1821. " The Catrie for s•hieh 111 MPI) RN frills . the Field, mod SYDNEY died o* the Sretifeld tip• 5015. desiring' that he might come to see hlm. tie had com plained to the visiting. magistrates without effect ; at which the Hon. Member did not feel sorprized, for they were individuals who approved of the bloody 'reds committed at Manchester.—(No, no, from Mr. linruby.)—Some of them at least did so.—(Nn, no.) contradiction also riven by the worthy Magistrate (Mr. Hurnhy), who spoke early in the discussion. Mr. HORNBY stated, that he knew, of his own knowledge, several of the facts stated, to be absolute ly false; and that he bad the best evidence that other parts of the petition were in the same spirit. Jr. LAMBTON wished to ask his Noble Friend (Lord S.) whether it was his intention to persist in op posing the petition Lord STANLEY explained, and stated his inten tion of pressing. his opposition. _ _ PRIcR SEVEN PENCE. EAST INI)I.1 110, *SE. March 7, IS'2l ‘VIIER EA `i,r r•Intl,,,••••• It the N,, el„„ o f t h e 7th Chapter of tier lip Loos of the . 1111n1 Coop/soy o f Merritt:di of Emytahe trridiiig to Ike East ladies, it is ordered, That a List shall he r:hlisherl thirty days before the Abnual Election GI Direct , rs. crnitainitia the names of such Proprietors qualified agr7cahle to Law. as signify in %rating to the Secretary. their tlesirs of becoming candi d:it-a for the Directiotf, thirty-two days before such Annual Election. Toe Court of Directors of the said Company en hereby fr i t , notice. in order that the Proprietors mw contorin to the P4:li By Law, that the emoting Election (4' Six Directors of the aa id Company f* four year., is appoini..l for the I Ith i•t* :sprit aext ; and that Nivii hit will he puillishee thirty dace before the said Election, as the above-motioned By Law directs. the question of Parnamentar; Reform, hr now rose to state that lie meant to bring the que,,itio forsirl on the 14Ith of April nett, 'mil that it would pos,lisrlar be pit' off no fat-the:. lie begge4l leave, id the scow time to say, that his object* were precisely the Pattie as before, namely, an 'etitension of the elsetive franchise to all lioniehoh!ers—the abolition of all deraye.l Boroughs— and a return to Triennial Parliaments —ifirar ') COMPLAINT AGAINST A LEARNED KIDOP. . . —Well then he had !seen misinformed. He did nut expect that much attention would be paid to the Peti tion, when he considered the manner in which Petitions in general were received by the House. He Moved that it be brought up. Mr. HORN BY did not rise to oppose the reception of the Petition, hut, as one of the visiting Magistrates of the fioal, though not one who approved of the trans actions at Alanchester, to contradict some of the state ments which it contained. He defended the rules ui the Gaol upon the ground of their necesiiy for the preservation of discipline and order. With respect to to what seemed to be the gravamen of his lion. Friend's complaint, namely, the opening of the pri soner's letters, he could say from experience that the proctice bad been productive of the greatest good, by preventing improper cutnmunications from being car ried on. .Mr. LAM BTON would !lieu sate his reasons for supporting the petition. lle considered it to be a min strolls doctrine to be supported in that House, thn' a petition complaining of the t cruel grieva:.ces should be rejected upon the statement which bad bees made by the Noble Lord and other Ilan. Heathers.— There were two stateuients before the House—that contained in the petition, and that made by the friends of the Gaoler and the Mazistrates in that House. This was only a reason why use petikoa and an infinity institubd. Ile thought it, else refore, JO.sEl'lt DART. Ser. INDI.I HOUSE. Afarch 7, 11.21. Tiir. Comp.! of Directors q . tee I 'nit, d Compudynf , Merehanis of England trading to tke East-Indies, do hereby give Antics.. That sundry articles of Baz7sge and Presents rim remain-' jag it. the Company's Warehouse:. hive been di tallied for the payment d the Dude* arising to eke Crowp there-' Tier Proprietors thereof rre hereby :nforateil. that all goods frillisse tinder the above tleia.ription which lea .e hems uncleared Nix Months front the :trim; inwards of the Shirt by venters they were imported, will be ,old at the Company Candi" on Wednemlity the tith Particulars may he !outwit by nihilist application to Mr. William Evans, at the Baggage Warehou.,e, iti Nvo-street, Bishop:late-street. unfier these circumstances, a most monstrous doctrine to s.ty that the petition shon,il be rejeetell as false---or in the language of the Learned Serjeant, :.s foul and calumnious. The Petitioe having been read, Mr. J. mowed, that it do lie nn tile table. Lord STANLEYwished to says few wool , a: to the conduct of the Gualor, which be knew to he highly creditable to that individual. But there had been some complaints made to the House against him, on farmer occasions, that were never suhstantiated: and after that the !louse onr,lat not to make themselves 31r. LI *SHINOTON %vas of n3inion that, independ ent of the trash or falsehood of the petition, this bias not a case which ought to he received by the House. Mr. JA3IES inaintained that the opening• of his let ter WAS an injustice, and a breach of privilege. Mr. B. WILBRAHAM said, that the rule of which JOSLPII DART, See. . _ N EV THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— T Proprietors prnpnse to raise MOM for RE BUILDItiti the THEATRE, by Rent Charges of tny, per sower for each V.lO/. subm:rined, for a Terns of Twenty Years, with a privilege or ssinsissien, transferable saaa ally. for earh tbUl. subscribed and raid. The ell Theatre, as well es the new one now ereetinr. bad, and will have, the ?annular advantage of being free trona every debt or elution on the Theatre. A n e w lease h as been lately audited by the Crown fore term of ninety-nine years. The 121'001. mooted to be ensels. will be the first sad only charges on the Theatre, el ept the Grimed Rent reserved to the Crown for the new lea..e. All other particulars mnti he Luotro on application to Mr. Morris. 61. Poland-street ; Ransom In. 2 3 . ; or to Messrs. Williams, Brooks and Powell, Levan's-Inn. the flow Mensbur comp!ained was a general one. and used. he believed in every g'aol in the kingdom. The necessity of it tt as obvious to all. It was not a pnwer exereiseo arbitrarily or %%ills motives of clriosity, but one which was .ili‘a!tately neces%ity to prevent im proper' communii Athol, with the prisoners. Was it to he said that the a tateicrut of this maa should be take. against those which had been made to the House? Ile_ himself could bear testim thy to the orre tans of the latter. The Petition oii4ht nut to he entertained. parties to the accusations contained in the Petitiuu, by allowi►►g it to lie on the tablet. Ile knew that n►any of the facts whirl► it set forth were entirely uttfoand ed, whilst others were so coloured, as nut to bear any resemblance to the real state of C:e case. lie wished to encourage the ri:•ht of petitioning► to the greatest extent; but he certainly dill not think the present Petition one that ought to be received, and he should therefore oppose it. Mr. 110LME tiI'MNER wished to state to the Ilous ^ that he was upon a Committee to whirls a Pe tition Wai referred, fontaining similar complaints to Mr. F. PALMER supportvil the receiving of the Petition. CITAIAJOI:ES RAISONEE of the PICTURES exhibited at the Hermit INLTIII.I sox in Pull-SIMI ; to whkli is prefixed as Address trots the of Polak Taste to the Pub!le. Printed with a %lneare desire to assist the Noble Directors iu turning the Pithlie :libation to those !wait star Pieces whirl; I:.ry kholly selected with the bene volent intention of affording the most (storable ettatrast to Modem Art, the earnmageiseet of which, it is well luou a, is the :.silo aim and prulession of the Institution. HNITISII Pt/1172/01s ; or, lihes writteu os a Visit to tilt British Geller), Pall-Shit, June, IFMII, price 3s. Nolit by C. Cliapplr, Bookseller to the King and their ft(”1.1 Ilieliness's the Mites of York sad Cambridge, Royal Librar), Pull-Mall. hosi- :mx made twain.' the same individnal ; awl he felt hound to say, that from the evidence which L:11:11* before that Committee, the duties of his office coul I not be more honourably or more humanely fuffilletl. He should certainly oppose the Petition, contradicted as it was, by the statements of the Noble Lord, and the lion. Aletulter who :polo. before him. Sir It. WILSON wished to ask the Noble Lord Mr. MANSFIELD opposed it. Mr. JAMES rose amidst cries of " Qtieotion" and " Spoke." He wished t;,e licuse to hear him ; he had only spoken three tiotes.—(Latigitin t r.)—There was one part of his complaint •till unanswered— namely, breaking open the Wm!. of a Member of Par• 31r. C. HUTCHINSON wouhl be the la•t mu in KEii TO El.l.lB's EXLltrisgg. vas preltialeed• Meat, pries is-. Mood. • to the Fecund and Third Part of ELLIS'S COLLECTION of EX EitCl4l:l4, front the Writiegs of Cicero, with references to the Passages in the Original. London! Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; Scarchard and Letterman ; Longman. Hurst, Rees. ()rule and Browne; J. Richardson ; Larkia4lon and Co. ; 1. ; tiri,dogk And Jo) ; Sherwood, Neeley and Jones; T. viatailton si:d W. R. Whittales ; Edwards and Knibb ; to.irSimpkiii and Marshall. •• • Tina little Publication is ofrer's: to those Teachs r. who use Ellis's Exercises; nut (mu, :11 ..up potion that the:, ran rt. {lire web aid for the correction of grammatical errors, belt from a conviction that the best modern Scholars may c ;mull the original with advantage. anti that the Pupil will hos, he prepared for snore damn exerti-es. The Ke) will le fouud useful as a volleetine of Sentences to he trans lated Au Engli ils, which, without being too difficult, illus tra;e the rules of Syntax in the pure language of the first Rowan Authors. ONE 1)1Y \1ORI: 1111.1. DETERMINE .11.1.! E s i• 1Y %V F:EK. lith This laluoth (Mari I.) St. Patrick'. Da), %%hen the pre ent l.u:tery and tar present Contract will entirely ankh. Jawl J. sivEwititair, cfintrao.r, for the Lut • eery. soli! in IS Shares. one of the Three Prizes of 121, 1 109 drag ~ Vie 14t of March (No. 1.1it.13. Class B.) and hope t t base the pleasant of eongratulating the Public on &miler atic •ess net Day of Drat lug, when the I'll,ooo PRIZEs, And every utter Capital, and every other Prize. mt;ST OF DRAMN. A few ;Indrawn Tickets and Share 4 are still on Mali , at the Volurvreor'sollices, 37, Coruli111; 1 I, Ilulborn ; and 3S, Has market. The Three Itl.oflo drawn Thursday. the ist inst. were all sell divider' amongst the Publie; as were also the Three drawn on the preceding days. S T It NE WS 111.11'li1NU. WHICH may be bad at every principal Druggists', Ironenongere, Brush-ninkers'. Perfumers', Root 'Eskers', and every City no.l Town in England. Scotland, hales. in.l the lily of ITihliu, in ..tone bottles. at GIL and Is. CU. each; and Paste Itlncking, in pots, at bbd. ar.d Is. each. Observe,—Wholesale Houses, desirous of selling this Blacking on their reipec!; e journeys, may be supplied to any ano;uat. at2J per cent. and the mond credit. RICHARD TURNER. W arldar-Maanfeeturer, 114, Loodeu-roa.l. mnat;iwark. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF OP COMMONl4.—Wtosrsiaty, 111Aaca 7. REMARKABLE PF.TiTION. Mr. JAMES printentsd a Petition from a person anted Alathan Broadiantst. complaining of a multi plicity of grievances. He bad been committed upon a charge of High Treason, which was afterwards abandoned, and he was subseimently tried for a mis deuir.neur. and sentenced to two rears imprisonment in r Cagle. Among other grievances, the Petiti,•re r t of helm; stinted of his allow ances of food, becatt4e he refweil to work. Also, that he was st fused he use of newspapers, and that all his letters nee•• opeteii before he received them. The Hon. Member complained that a letter of his had been so opened, which lie conceived to be a breach of privi lege. The Petition complained also of the conduct of the gaoler, by idiom. orders he hail been thrown into a tb&wp cell celled the ditch, which was to him a great degradation, as well as a source of great misery sod tattering. Ile had been thrown into the ditch by the turnkeys. and tiinA injured thereby, bet he had been refused the attendance of a surgeon, to whom he sent (Stanley) whether he knew the statements he had made to he true, of his own knowledge, or whether be only knew them from representations made by others. With regard to the Petition I.e certain]) thoitzlit that it ought to he rereived. There were Men about rt mesubers present; but th ought to re-' collect, that that House was composed of 1;:ri, and' unless the Petition was entered 111,1111 the Journals, those who were not present, would have no tai..w ledge whatever of any suck Petition having hues presented. Lord STANLEY said, that lie did not know of his personal knowledge any thing of the farts spoken of in the Petition : but his information st as this—he had seen the contrailicions which he had mentioned, in the Iraod•writing of the surgeon of the ;faol. Mr. Serjeant UNSU)%V would not admit that be cause every Member of the House 44 Commons was not present, that those who wen•, should be honnil to let such a foul calumny as the present petition evidently contained, lie on the table, and Ire en tcrril upon the Jouraafs of the Iluu•e. Sir It. WILSON explained. Mr. WHIM /USE sa►d, that it bad come to his knowledge that the sisiting Magistrates of the Gaol in which the Petitioner was confined, had thowilit pro per to alter some of the regulations of the gaoler, not lung ago, upon a representation being made to them, that his conduct had been improper. He thought it perfectly necessary for the House to be in possession of this fact, because it would then see, that if this person hail already done what the Magistrates thought necessary to he remedied, it was quite possible that he might commit other abuses. He shoull support the Petition. Mr. LOCKHART contended that the Petition ought to be received, from the respect sv:.ieb was at all times due to the right of petitioning. He did not conceive that the Howie would be bound to sanction its con tents by allowing it to lie upon the table. - Mr. IVYNNE could not for one moment allow tbat the House was bound to receive the petition, when its assertions had been so completely falsified by the evidence which had been given. If it were necessary to look for the precedent upon such a subject, hundreds of petitions had been rejected upon the ground of con taining falsehoods. He would allow that what the Hon. Member for Westminster had said, afforded •owe ground for believing the contents of the petition. It was fair to assume, that when the ♦isiting 3lagis trate, were applied to, they would remove it. He would most positively deny that that House was the place to which such application ought to he made. He was afraid that, instead of being the last and superior tribunal to which all others must appeal, they were about to make themselves the hearers of all sorts of complaints and disputes in the first instance. The consequence would be, that they never could attend to such cases, and fresh sources of discontent would be thus opened. He thought it best to declare at once, that the House could i,ot take cognizance of such coin plaints, and he would thetefore vote against the pre sent petition lying upon the table. Mr. BERNAL said, that it appeared to him from the petition, that the Magistrates had been applied to by the prisoner, without effect. The Noble Lord near him (Lord Stanley) had only negatived some of the facts stated by the petitioner, and that not upon his own knowledge, but from representations which had been made to hint► by others. _ _ Mr. WYNNE observed, that he had not founded his opinion of the falsehood of the petition upon what bad fallen from the Noble Lord alone, bat from the the House to support a vexation. Petition, but he con sidered the present to be one v. ought to be re ceived. They had better err by admitting too many. titan by shutting their doors to the petitions of the people. Mr. Ult EEVE V, altlionA he believed the sate. ment, of hi' liouourab:e Fr;etul (Mr. ilornby), should %.,te in favour of the petition. Mr. GREY BENZ E1 " 1' declared a similar inten- q i. ed be al rr. the lip- Ise is pay 11. °ado.. P OW " , 411 lb Saw rr•r°'" : .street or w e ne ) 0 " siatiag tissere , !• nilloolll. ill!!. Mr. CALCRAFT was sorry to find the House oc• copied by any opposition to a Petition like the pre sent. If the Golder were the most honoorablu and humane character in the world be should support the petition. Fur be should then give Idol the benefit of disproving the statements if they were false. The House then di►ided upon the motion that the Petition be laid on the table, and the numbers were:— Ayes 33—Noes b6—Majority against the Petition 53. BILI FOR THE RELIEF OF ROMAN CATHOLICS. Mr. PLUNKEII' brought in a Bill fur the reinovail of certain disqualifications and disabilities affecting his ,eljesty's Roman Catholic subjects, which was read the first time, an.l ordered to be read the second time on Friday the 16th of March.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. PLUNKETT brought in another Bill to regit late the Intercourse and Correspondence between per sons in Hoff• Orders of the Rowan Catholic persua sion and the See of llorne.—ltrad the first time, and ordered to be recd the second time on Friday the 16th of March.—Ordered to be printed. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. WYN.\ brought up the Report of the reelect Committee appointed to consider of the most rf•ctual 'leans of expetlitint the introduction of Dills into that House; and the Committee had agreed to a reso lution, that it would be expedient that not more than twenty orders of the day should be appointed to be taken into consideration by the House on any one day. He raid that he meant to lay this reso lution on the table and have it printed ; and after a short time, during' which the House would have an opportunity to take it into consideration, he would move that it be placed amongst the Standing Order+ of the House. UNION DUTIES. Colonel BAG ELL presented a Petition from the Noblemen, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Tipperary against the Repeal of the Union Duties.—Laid on the table, and urd"red to be printed. Colonel BAGWELL presented another petition from T. Prendergast, E.g. Cursitur of the Court of Chancery, in Ireland, against the Bill now in pro gress, so far as respects the officer of Cursitor.— Laid on the table, and ordered nu be printed. Mr. CURWEN presented a petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Laud of the parish of Harrington, county of Cumberland, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Laid on the table, and ordered to he printed. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from certain Land. holders in the neighbourhood of Horsham, in Sussex, on the subject of Agricultural Distress.—Laid on the table. Mr. H. SUMNER postponed his motion relative to the Orphan Fund to ttris day fortnight. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from 116 Oc• copiers of hand at Northampton, and another signed by 7U Occupiers of Land near Peterborough, complain ing of Agricultural Distress, and Mr. WILSTURN presented a Petition from a parish in Essex on the same subject, all of which were ordered to lie on the table. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. LAM BIOS said, that as doubts had arisen with regard to Ms intentions of bringing on in this Session Mr. H0111101:811 held is his hand a Pewit.n signori by 11100 or 1500 inhatitants of London, and the terms of which, he trusted, would be foetal ones - ce; Crmble. The petitioners complained of the re jectioo of a Petition lately presenteal to this Honour able House, by an individual, who charged a Learned Judge with an a•:t of oppression towards hint—thoogie the Honourable 51over of the Petition declared that contained tootling in it offensive to the House ; and petitioners coosidered such rejection as an encroacl.- nrent on the sujects right to petition the Legislature. The inilividn-,1 iitluiled to was Davison. and the op tp of was the rouilnet of Judge RCS'. wbWiteillinsed a power of smottuitilifiaing the peti tioner, whilst emuleloing his defeueo, to a prosecution against him by t h e Crown. Petitioners considerC I this House was the proper place fur Davison to has; come for relief, and aware that a Committee was con stantly 'Sitting to watch ever the administration of deo tier, O.t.y pr.tyv.i tie florae to refer, without d e file, the consideration of this case to that Committee. 'Elul' hoped the lioese vrooid not refuse the propositivo suggesting that if they slid, they would entirely f• Welt whates er share of respectability the.; already possessed the country. Their prayer sr:.. to refer the matter to the Cousneittee on the Admi nistration of Justice. As the Petition routeined reflection on the Learned Judge, anti only ade..raiel justice in the abstract, he trusted there wuul I be r objection to its being received. lie Cllr. H.) entirely agreed with the Petitioners, that this House was t h e most proper piaci: to make the complaint ; and thoilei it Was U 0 question of the Privilege of Parlooneio, :r was, in fact, a quo stints affecting the privileges of t'o• people ;—(llear.)---it was idle to say the law wio, upeu to all. Horne Tooke, when hr heard this. o°';*. said, `` so was the Tavern." The Courts of law were, as t;olllm4slitli slid of the !O en, • •• !tithing the ;Amine stomper sills evold pny." He (31r. II.) i1....1.1.nl tau. h whether there us. an ao peal from the four du•lges of the Court of Kieg . .. Bench to the House of lairds, on a point of ju►isitic thin. Vet the power of 'king sinittuarily assume/I the Learned Judge tits a frightful tote. Perhaps it did not equal the question of c.oninittal without bail, which was agnate." in the Cone of Charles the First, and which eventually raved the nay for the Petition of Rights, but still it Was of c o nso g oenee. those days Parliament pail but little regard Is the decisions of Jadgrs in the Courts of Law,. for in the rase of • committal without hail, the t orauti,•.; was known to have been sanctioned by as g reat name as Sir N. Hyde, and supported by prece dents from Elizabeth, commented upon loy Sir yet Pent's manuscripts, taken into a . familiar work, Howell's State Trials, testified that three authorities were little attended to. lie did not,agree with those who contended that this subject waa. in itself imma terial; ler though the maxim of law was that de non reret lex : yet if little things were to be always overlooked, the great ones wOuld soon be en dangered. The ju risdie tion of a Supreme Court waseery superior to that of a single Judge sitting at .Visi If Judges were allowed to lett an extensive construc tion on what they termed contempt of Court, there was no possible case which they could not apply it to. He was not for Latino. aw iy all disi:retion from Judges—be would only disable them from punishing very severely in an arbitrary manner. Again. it was that Davison's was a case of so gross a nature that it was unique in its kind, and therefore n 3 pre cedent was to he found for it. He asked them, was William's or Caton's before Lord Ellenhocough, or Cathie's before Chief Justice Abbot? In Carlile's case the Attorney-General admitted that the Court bad* nu power to punish the Defendant by fine, fur aro* that the blasphemous defence which he set up was iutended only fur publication. The Attorney• General stated distinetly, that the only remedy against the Jirsemination of this blasphemy, was by pro secuting those who should vend it. If defen4ants were to he thus intimidated, the trial by Jury ' might be got rid of altog. titer. In Sweden they hail tie trial by Jury in the seventeenth rev tury, but through the corruption of Judges and the ' apathy of the people. they since entirely lost it. The Hon. Member then quoted a late instance of the same assumption o f power. by a justice at Horsemonger lane, where a Mr. Mit:teary was intimidaled jut', si lence, by the threat of tine coming from the CQurt.— It was time character of all political libels, that ther were greatly aggravated by the defences set up for them. In a recent case at Westminster, a Mt. Mot was charged with writing a libel on the House of Commons, Mr. Hunt in his defence took a room which, if the Learned Judge (Chief Justice Abbott) who presided, had been a passionate or political Jake, would have exposed him to fining without end. Mr. Hunt cited the authorities of men much greater than himself, who said much worse things of this Hausa than he had, and yet the Learned Judge, wi:la his characteristic mildness and impartiality, gave him no interruption. But it was said the ease was differeut j in blaspheme; his opioion was, that blasphemous , libels were in one sense political libels, and he con tended, that at least so far as the facilities fur defence went, they utt;ht to be treated alike. It was by Do ; means necessary to give the Judges so large a discre tionary power, for there was a moral obligation on defendant to keep within reasonable Ilnauds in his de fence, if lie wouid conciliate the Jury. But he was told the matter had been already settled by the Judges and lawyers, and there it ought to by let rest. Um e ' for all he would say, that in their own cause, boat above all as legislators (with al' dote deference) he had no great respect fur the diets oi.bulgas on the berneli, or nut on the bench. Mr. Harrington, is his °emote, says in his Parliament, no lawyer should find a place. 1 ; 1 i . I / h 1 1 11 ' if • / . .. 1 i 1 • / / i t 1 ik 1 4 i ' I . \ 1 t ' I -,. t i • 1 : o ft 1 1 4 t r •4 ! 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