The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-29 00:00:00

NAPAL INTILLIGENCH: - - . DIAL, JAN. 28.—Arrived and sailed for the ju r or the Ostoin; Key, from Bengal; end Garland, B r own, from the Cape of Good Hope,la 65 days.— ease down from the River, the Unity, for Batavia; *Han, Reed," for Tarragona ; Lucy, 'Reed, for lu o Janeiro ; Urania, Hutchinson, for St. Vincent's Sandi, Lien, for Charente; and Latona, Denernou,• for the South Sea ;• sod remain in the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, Jeu.2B.--Arrived from the Downs, o nward boond, as follows, via. s—Berwick, Comp. son, end Urania; - Howell, for Barbadoes ; Ann, noynolds, for Bombay ; Acteon, —, for Her." face; Orion, Whitmore, for ditto ; Vittoria, Car for Vera Cruz ' • George the Third, Fisher, for; Bowl ; Mercury, Flint, for Honduras, Rambler, •W oo dthorpe, for the •Mediterraneen ; end -several others.—Smiled the Shipley, Moncrief, fur Rntterdam. • PrAtmetern, Jam. 27.—Came in the Demerara rocket, Venable., from Demerara to London, and sailed again. • ; FAILIMUTN, JAw. 26.—Arrrived the American s hip William, Hague, from New York, in 25 days, for orders. SLAVE TRADE TREATY mervssir rare COUNTRY .amp SPAM, . The following are the principal Articles of this •18047:--7 • .A ft ki. I. His Catholic Majesty" -entre,. that the ,Slake Trade shall be abolished theoughoot the entire deolnions of Spain, on the 30th day of May, 1820, and that, from and after that period, It ;hall not be lawfal for any of the subjects of the Crown of Spain te purchase Slaves, or to carry on the Slave Trade, on any part of the coast of Africa, upon any pre. test, or in anyjnoantier whatever; provided, bow. ejer, that a term of fire months, front . the said date of the 30th 'of May, 1820, shall he allowed for com. pitting the voyages of vessels which shall have clear ed oat lawfully previously to the 30th of May. 11. It is hereby agreed, that from and after the ',change of the ratifications of the preaent Treaty, it shall not he lawful for any of the subjects of the Crown of .Spain to purchase Slaves, or to carry on the Slave Trade on any part of the coast of Africa to the North of the Equator, upon any pretest or in any manner whatever; . provided, however, that a term of sicsontho, from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, shall he allowed 14)1 ; completing the voyages of vessels which shall have cleared oat from Spanish' ports. for the said coast, previously, to the exchange of the - said WM , cations. " 1.11. H W His Britannic Majesty engagei . pey, in London, on the 20th of February, 18111,, the.sum of, 400,0001. sterling, to soch person as his Cathelie )Majesty shall appoint to receive the same. IV. The raid sum of 400,0001. sterling is to bail considered as; Poll conpensation for all losses sus.' twined by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty en gaged in this traffic, on account of vessels captured previously to the caching. of the ratifications of the wont Treaty, as also for the losses which are 1111111.. sefefiriconsequence of the abolition of the said traffic. Tip oilier Articles relate chiefly to regulations and kola salons. 1 1 -41 are of minor importance. DRURT.LAIIIto• - •A new piece, in two sets, of the melo-dramatic species, with the title of The Turret Clock, was produced last night at this Theatre.-- The setae is placed in Portugal, anti the outline of the plot le this:—The daughter of a Portuguese Grandee, to avoid an odious suitor, resolves to elope with a British. Officer, •her lover, but unknown to bet father ; the signal for which elopement is the striking of a certain " turret clock." The scheme being overheard by robbers, they contrive to carry off the lady for the sake of her plunder, and turn her 'drift in a forest ; for sorely she pots on male wire, sad arriving at a neighbouring village, is, by a whim sical law then in force, made its Chief Magistrate. Her lover, in pursuit of her, kills a robber on whom he had discovered part of her jewels, and is broeght• before his mistress to be tried for the murder • the denouement may be easily imagined. - The dialogue has some•sarcistic allusions to politics and fashions ; bet, on the whole, the piece is a very middling per. torment,. It met with very doubtful success. The Porter Brewers of London, have hitherto ab stained from noticing the charges made against them In the various Newspapers, conceiving that a liberal and candid Public could not expect them to enter the let with anonymous 'acmes**. These charges and misrepresentations, however, haring been repeated at a Public Meeting, held at. the Crown and Anchor Tavern, on the 25th inst. and embodied In the shape of Resolutions, iodate them now to come forward and to express their satisfaction, that by the pro posed Petition to the House of Commons, en oppor. 'unity *ill be afforded to them of meeting their ac- COWS before II competent and unprejudiced Tribunal. They are firmly convinced that by a strict Investiga. sloe the repent end every former advance which theel hive Owitin the price of Beer will be proved to bong bees fully jestified, sod they earnestly request the Public to sdspend their judgment intil the examine. Lion shall have taken place. • Corahill, Jae. 18. 1818. Mr. Bins effeerell those Gentlemen from whom be has received letters respecting their Woes, thee be hes not the least doubt bet they have l'eree• of do finest vintege, but he wholly declines recension...we any particular house, considering it. his defy to the Public to state, that the Purchasers of the first-drawW Blank, on each d a y of Drawing, if bought at eithef of his Offices in 'Town, or of soy Agent of his in the Country, whether in Tickets or Shares, may (immediately on their being drawn) select THOM sures, from the Stock of snip Wine.merchont Se tie United Eingdom they choose to favour with their Orders, the choicest Port. Wine, according to the following Scale, For the Three Tickets, It Pipes of Pert One dice .+ 4 Pipes of Put( Halftime 2 Pipes of Port Qtserterslitto .5 Pipe of Port Eighth ditto Half a Pipe of Port Slittetatb ditto Quarter era Pipe of Port. This is quite unconnected .and emelealve of the Three Prises of /10,000, or of any ether part of the the Hundred Capitals, or the 3,550 various Prizes, Mich wilt en be paid in Sterling Money, on demand. 41! tt ti • 11 p 1 ti 11 C tl • 11 ti a C A 1 , 1 f a 1 1 1 I • • ~.• I • • I THE STA'rESMAN: . _ • - PARLUIIIin 110USR OF' LORDS, Jim NI. Ha proceedings which bid taboo place In Scotland ? A dreadful oath. an, °alb whisk wit, 80 e It to be publicly stated, it oilfield, bad been'likinib (bat ___.. The Bishop of Kildare and the Duke of Northumberland took the oaths mot their watt. A perwm from the Rolk-nsee presented the enrolment of the Leiters Patent eliptlen to George Hearer Ro.e..E-4. the mice of Clerk of Parlidera& in rewritten. It was kid on the table. The Earl of LI V ERPOOL Mid on the table enoies of the Treaties between Ms Catholic Majesty and his Britannic Ma jest, respecting the diseomiolsanee of the Slave Trade by the sehjeeis of Spain. REPEAL 01 THE SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS. Lord SIDMOUTH presented a Bill for repealing the Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, to empower. his Majesty to secure and detain persons suspected of conspiring against his Majesty's person mad Government. Having read the title of the Bill, his Lordship mowed that it be new reed a first time. Lord HO - LLAND rose, but, on its being mated that it was intended to pass , the Bill through ail its stages that night, he said he would resew • what he had to Say for the third reading. The Bill was then read a first time. country. Ministers, it was asserted, had the fallen evidence of a most extensive conspiracy, but which evidence they did not choose to disclose. - Well, their Lesr-olficers proceeded to try these ennspira. ton and oath-takers in Scotland. At first, their in dictment was wrong; a new indictment wss preferred ; bet, after all, they failed in proving that soy illegal oath had been taken. None of these proceeding's afforded any appearance of a necessity for the mea sure which Ministers had recommended and which Parliament bad been induced to adopt. But the Noble Earl (Liverpool) had declared that be was ready to prove, not only that the meanie was justi fied by the state of the country at the time, but that It bed been productive of the greatest advantages.-- That the country was in better circumstances now than last year he was happy to believe; but what ever improvement had taken place, certainty was not owing to the Suspension of the Habeas Corp*, Act. After which, on Lord SIDMOUTIN motion, the Wer;the truth of ihisassertion ofklinisterstobeadosit. Standing Order. No. 36, relative to the progress of ted by their Lordships, there would be no longer any Public Bills was read and suspended. security for personal liberty. On say future occasion, His Lordship nest moved the second reading of when desirous of obtaining en undue incresseof power, the Bill be had introduced for repealing the Habeas if they could persuade Parliament to suspend (be Ha- Corpus Suspension Act. • ..-. best Corpus Act on ex-parie evidence, they would Lord HOLLAND. though he certainly did not have nothing more to do, supposing the state of the rise to oppose the motion, could not avoid . saying a ceentry to terve from other causes, improved, then few words en the circomstances which had led to it. to come forward nest year and say. You see whet His Majesty's Ministers had dwelt on the difficelties advantages have been derived from following oar re they had experienced from the dangerous situation of commendation. On the contrary, if it abroad hap the country, and he was ready to acknowledge that, pen to be followed by discontent and distress, Mini. in the proposing the present measure, they had done sten would thereby acquire an argument for prolong. more than he expected from them : but whatever ing their undue authority. They would say, You might base been the difficulties of the times, the Bill see now the measure we called for was necessary, which was-now about to be repeated, he would as. and that the Suspension of the Law must be coot:J aen, bad been one of the greatest calamities the need. Nothing, however, colifiteicuse socks-mew-- country had experienced. Last year, Parliament sure, bet an evident proof,of its necessity, founded bid consented, ots the representations of his Majea- on a full and impartial ievestigation. last Session ty's Ministers, supported by erroneous and item. their Lordships had heard much of blasphemous fect evidence, to sanction the measure they were bow productions, but had these productioni been 'poi shout to give up. Their Lordships had then allowed down by the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ? themselves to be surprised into a course, on the adop. It was not said they Were now in circulation.— tion of which it was preientled the safety of the coon. Was it the threefold prosecution which Ministers try depended. His Majesty's Ministers had been had tried against. them, which- bad produced_ this either actually the tools of wicked and designing effect ? This was certain—that with respect to these :sets, or had been led away by the desire of obtain. publications, things remained in the same state as last log undue power to themselves. Believing, as he year ; and if they were no longer • subject of corn. .did, that the whole of their Lordships' proceedings ,plaint, it could not be airing to any measures oldie in passing the Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus Noble Lord. With regard to that prosecution. it was had rested upon garbled and unfair evidence, he must not his wish to say much, lest soy thing which might state that he could not be satisfied with the mere re- fall from him no 'hat subject should be taken es • peal of that Act, and that he thought an enquiry into vindication alb .pecies of publication against which the grounds on which it had beets passed ought to be the prosecution was instituted. S.) far from wishing instituted. No proceeding could have been more din. to vindicate that sort of writing, he rather thought it serous to the true interests of the country than that ought, in point of good taste as well as of decency, to which their Lordships had given their sanction out to be discouraged. At the same time he could not evißenice so totally imperfect. The right which had help saying, that these prosecutions bore such marks been suspended, be wished to remind them, was not of hypocrisy as be had never before witnessed. Was ono which had been granted by any Act of Portia. there any mats in the country so weak as to believe, intent whatever. The personal liberty of the People that the writer of the Parodies against which Minis. was no concession. It was a right antecedent ter. had manifested so much indignation, would have to any Statute, and equal to the right of their Lo:.l. beers questioned had be ridiculed persons in op. ships to vote in that House, or to the right of the King positiost to the Government ? His friends had often to sit at the Throne. He did n..t mean to say that bees made the subject of such satire, and yet, on there was any absolute limitation to the power those occasions, the Government never thought re. of. Parliament on this subject, when circumstances ligion so endangered by each publications as to ten. rendered such a stretch of power indispensable; but der it necessary for the Attorney-General to pro. be did say, that to iespend this right of the. eeople secute them. Ne recottected . a parody published by was en act of as greet violence as to suspend the pre. those connected with the Noble Lord's Administra regetives of the Crown, and could only he justified tion, against persons in Opposition, of which the by the clearest evidence of the most overwhelming words of our Saviour himself were the subject. Now, - wecessity. Consistently with this view, he thought wishing to speck with all respect of the Liturgy of 'their Lordships could not let the matter pass over the Church of England, he should only say, that he with the mere repeal of an Act which had been so un- thought it most estraordinary that prosecutions should justifiably pasted. It was their Lordships' duty to be instituted for parodies on it, while parodies on show, that a law which deprived the People of their the words of the Scriptures themselves were allowed most important right, of personal liberty, was a ca. to pass unnoticed. He recollected a parody, which levity which was not to 'be inflicted without proof, had been published in all the Ministerial Newspapers or without some subsequent proceeding, which would of the time, against the late Mr. Paul. It was of demonstrate to the lastest posterity, that they con. the most disgusting nature, and yet no entice bad side red themselves pledged to guard against such un. been taken of it. When k was so evident to all the just encroachments in future. He trusted, then, world, that the prose - cations brought against Mr. that Parliament, when all pretence of any danger Hone bad been instituted for political 1014011, only, it from investigation should be over, would institute was impossible far the country not to despise the by. , an enquiry into the nature of the evidence on 'which pocritical pretences under which they were brought the Act of the last Session hod been passed. The forward. This was en unavoidable consequence evidence on such an enquiry must not be of the ex- which Ministers must endure ; for, in order that parte and suspicious nature which their Lordships motives should be respected, it was necessary ebst were induced to accept of last year. It must not be they should be truly respectable. It did not bevies* evidence. prepared by petsons seeking power, or any Administration to inflict severe punishments en wishing to retails it. Nothing could be satisfactory. one set of men who might be hostile to them, for the and nothing would satisfy the country, but a fair and same kind of acts which they viewed with iodulgence impartial investigation. A fell examination into all when committed by others in their favour. Ifs the circumstances which took place at the passing of should say nothing more on this subject hut to 'ti the Act, and all which had occurred since, was what press his hope that their Lordships would agree to the, the occasion demanded, when the liberties of the enquiry he had suggested. If s Committer should be People had been so violently invaded. Ile trusted it instituted, it mast not be formed as that of last year was unnecessary for him to urge the importance of had been. The enquiry, to give satisfaction, must this right on their Lordships' minds, but he could be minute and complete. If a Committee should be not help dwelling upon it. Ile must repeat, that it agreed to, it ought to be an open one, to which all was the most ancient of all the rights of the People their Lordships would have access ; and then he of this country. It rested neither on the Magna might hope, that no evidence would be permitted to Charts, the Act of Habeas Corpus, or the Bill of be garbled or withheld, as, be was assured, cooled' Rights, though it was reasserted in them. The Ail be proved to have been done by Ministers with re. of 1672, in the reign of Chitties 11. by w hich , it was Bisect to the Committee of last year. Informatics legislatively enacted, .did not constitute the ighc.-- had been received by Ministers which wooly! hart The ancestor of the Noble Lord,, whom he now saw traded to counieract thelespressiow of other evidence before him (alluding. we believe, to the Fir; of before the Committee, but which bad never come to Shaftesbury), then stood op, honourably and man- their hands. This was a subject which called for a fully,for this best right of the People, and contributed strict investigation. greatly to that measure by which it, was confirmed. Viscount SI DMOUTH said, the *fenny pane. And at what time was that important Act mod gyric of the Noble Lord upon Ministers was the only At the moment when the House of Lords and Com. part of the Noble Lord's speech that strictly bore mons were in • state of the greatest alarm from the open the question before the House. To that Iris apprehension of plots end conspiracies. Afterwirds, answer was the Bill thenbefore their Lordships. ThS when the whole country was thrown into consterna. necessity of the Act about to be repealed was gees. tion by the Popish plots—whether true or false, he flowed once more by the Noble Lord. Upon that did not at-present pretend to determine—no ides subject, be (Lord S.) would not then enter. That was &tatted of repealing the Habeas Corpus Act.— necessity, upon a due investlgetion by a Committee, Neither the Rye-house plot, nor any other plot, had had been recognised by the 'House. The Noble bees thought sufficient, even in those convulsed Lord bad thought proper to assert, that interspatial) times, to warrant the Legislature in depriving the had beets kept back by Government from the Cow. subject of persoeul liberty. Retarnisig to the Act of mittee, that garbled evidence only had bete submit. last Session, he' most again assert, that no ground for led to it,aod that Ministers had thus withheld or gar. it had been laid at the time it was passed, end no- bled the materiala upon which the Committees joule thing had 'Wee occurred to show that there was meet was formed, from design. Ho (Lord S.) knee any thing in the state of the country which ca lled that Noble Lord was incapable of mating any thing for it. Where was any disturbance' or con. which he did not believe to be true. Bet the charge spiracy to be found that could justify such a wee- which be had thus made was wholly destitate of sure ? It wet not to be found in say of the legal foeadation. Nothing Was withheld from the Com.. proceedings which had taken place in this metro- retitlen which was necessary to its titbit a fair and polls ) or even et Derby. Did it appear in of fell view of the state of . the ceentry. Agelalt was asserted by the Noble Lord, that the Aet wow about "to be repealed had prod aced no rood effect. It .siattrue, that the changes in the • condition of the People so much for the better, bad greatly tended to restore tranquillity and order. Bat be put it to the condoler of any lean, whether the sell disposed had not been intimidated, defeated, and wholly unnerved by the operation of this Act I He allowed the talent of the Noble Lords is Opposition, bat their predictions when the Act wis passed, of whet the state of the country should be at the period of its expiration', proved, that with all -their talents. • they had not the gift of prophecy.. He (Lord 8i) would declare his conviction that the Act bad pro duced some, and many of the favourable changes that bad taken place. It was this Act that gave confi dence to the good—alarmed and intimidated the ma. levolent, and thes gradually aided the retorts of tranquillity. He could prodoce the evidence a its beneficial effects in the public declarations of re spectable Magistrates in various parts of the coestry► —in Leicestershire, for...sample, the Magistrates of which declare, that by the operation of this Act the manufacturing population of that county was brought back from a state bordering spots rebellion to 'Wye airy, tranquillity, and good order. It, was the knowledge of its existence and of the powers it vested ' in the Magistrates and Ministers of the Law that bad this happy effect. Without this Act, what might not hate been the condition of that county iss which of 45 persons 10 had fled from justice, four had been convicted, and 31 had confessed their guilt, 'and thrown themselves upon the mercy of the Crown ? How much more formidable would the convulsion have been if this Act had not afforded the means of separating from the mass of the People the ill-disposed few who by their machinations, their publications, and their speeches, made the public distress an instrument of sedition, by making the People believe that it flowed from their Governs. 'lieut. These persons were not without talents-- particularly such talents as gave them an acoodelecr o►er the lower orders. It was therefore of the most • vital importance to separate them from the victims of 'their criminal arts. The Noble Lord bad aso. madverted upon some prosecutions that had rev cent!) , taken place; but the complaint moat gene ral was not that these publications had been pro secuted, but that the prosecution of thee had beets delayed so long. The Government was celled upon to come forward and protect the religion of the country. It was from this feeling and not from any base motive (foe hypocrisy would have been a base motive of action) that Mete poblications • were brought before public justice at that particular time. If they had not been prosecuted before, it was because they were dot so dangerous. It waa under the peculiar circumstances and situation of the country that they were then deemed lit objects of prosecution. It was impossible not to see that the disaffected in this country were pursuing the course so fatslly successful in another country, to sap the foundations •of religion, and faseiliarile men's minds to impiety and crime, by the force of tidiest*. The peculiar danger called for a ;mealier vigilance and activity in the Government. Th. Noble Lord had been liberal of panygeric upon the right of Habeas Corpus, and had gone back to its historical coerce. •—lle had only to say, that he did nut yield to the Noble Lord in veneration for it, sod should offer in proof the Bill which he then held in bis hand for re storing its exercise. The Act was to expire on the lit of March. He would ask, was there a single. record cre the bolls of Parliament of the expiration of such an Ac•t being anticipated by a Bill of Repeal? The matter stood thee—the Prince Regent's Minis-' ters had proposed the Act, upon the ground of its ne cessity alone, and as soon as they thought that the necessity no longer flatted, they felt it a dot, they owed to the People to propose its repeal.. Not bet there were still in the metropolis and out of it persons busily and actively employed in dis tu►hing the public tranquillity. But their peer of doing mischief no longer went beyond the reach of the ordinary laws of the country administered by that sctive and veleable class, the Magistrates, whose zeal and vigilance bed been del) appreciated in the Speech from the Throne, and in whom the country had justly so mach reliffinee. It was his intention to lay on their Lordships' table papers containing in. formation of what had passed since the last Repsrt. Upon these papers their Lordships would decide the coarse of proceeding to be followed. The informs. lion to be given comprehended as to the manner in . which the powers ender this Act bad been esercimsd. As they rested chiefly upon him, he had only to say that he deeply felt the duty imposed open him, and bad exercised the powers with which he was vested, eating op, as far as he saw, to the necesdty of the base, under the best direction of his condom and jodgment.—( Hear, hear !) The Bill then meet through its several readings, •as passed, and ordered to the House of Commons. —Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. After woo business, not of a public description, was goo* through, a conversation euvued respecter,* the apace 6y Lord A. Hamilton as to the proceedings with State Primmer. in Scotland. The LORD ADVOCATE said, that he did not Ilia, for any attention to his own personal sense nience ; but there were many professional ditties which be had to discharge is Scotland, which might itavueome effect io the partictilar time when a discos rsion might be proposed in the Hoeve on the toted, *leaded to. His attendance would be particularly Necessary on the lfith of March in the Eichequerg bet he was , ready and ansiously desirous to meet the glifiliall at the earliest possible day. ff it were not coosidered soon, it wooed be loconvenieat net to postpone it till sitar s tho , Sittings .1 the Scots Courts. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON observed, that what liad,been said put his, in rather an awk ward pteditnivent ; but it was his wish to give every possible accommodation. He was willing to postpone his motion even for a month, or to agree to say earlier - day. The SPEAKER desired to suggest, that it was not usual to make a motion at an earlier day the, that which was at first and upon. A practice of thatk,iod had newer been acquiesced in, for the parpostess. tolerating a discession. U iv. `4 Da- I. ~ ,c: