The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-31 00:00:00

JAN. 31 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, JAN. 26. tAtd Oundat took the mho and hi■ seat. Cu roDy OF T.IE KING'S PERSON. . Lord HoLzats 0, on the order of the May being moved fur a s ee d ed re ;dint of the bill to provide for the custody of the King's person, •vea perfectly willing to 4eknowiellee, ilie grimed nip irtiament having recognized the principle, whii her right or wrong, that the eare of the King's pet 4..0 shoilid he separated fro so the executive government, that the trust couli net tie better disposed of than it was by this hill. Hut besides the seprration of the trust, the bill involved another principle, which Itol,wheu the quotation was before !h. , wised, bees the vubject 11111011 OitirCtiOrt with many nob!. Loudv : h e meant the tod•bli•lsinent of an imprints in imptirio, by giobig ?he pervoo who ha i the care tit the Kitalcs person an estensi.e p.itronAge. fie tbought that th•dr Lordships ought hot to pea the prevent lull, until they aiicerialit7il the oat ire ;if the pat rona4e which was to OR vested is the Duke of York. As he had already observed, he had no objection to the object of the bill, bin wished, tor the sake of recitlari!y lo Nair Lordships' proceeding , , 111,11 40.11 t. explanation be given 011 lite point to %titbit lie had alluded. • The of LIVER ' , urn. hod uo ohjectiou to give the es. planation which the noble Lord required,. It was intended that the est .4 1)1i liirnent vhotild node, go a rednetion, and the proposition which No. to be made would he founded on a principle of reduction ; but as to the detail+ of that rodnction, they hat Ila C01111,9:1011 with hr present bill. They would tome nest before the other house, :tad would in the usual coarse .f aroitz'it under the consideration of their I. iiislops. I.; thee, i1W4 , 1 toile, all that he contended for wet, that whatever that establishment !night be, it tricot, if their Ler Iships agreed to the pre tent bill, to he placed seder the control of the Ihikr of York. The toll was then read a sec./lid time, and ordered to be Committed on Thursday.—Adjourned. WEDNESDAY. CRIMINAL LAW Lord ifor.t.awn wished to call their Lordships' attention to a petition *Wel; he held in his haul on the state of the crimi. nal law of the con nn ry. It wa• from the Lord Mayor, Alder. men, and I :ommon Council of (hi city of London ; it related to o.:• ~t the most important as .1-rts all %shirk the LettiA btu. Pcun hd be addressed, and tht , farts it contained wetr calculated to awaken in their Lordships' minds the serious c He wished that this subject had fallen into Aoki hauls in this Howe, and wits e!ail to lee that it w a s, taken o i l in another place. 'Ole improvetiteat of the rriitooal law was of toe greaie.t importance to the welfare of the country; oat, the great loss the cause of hottmots and imprevenwnt had ren•utly experienced, he hoped soon to see the object of the petitioners accomplished. Toe Earl of LIVER POOL did not intend to oppose the motion. The only point to wich h► was anxious to call their Lordship.' attention was a mere mutter of fart, involving the consider titian of bow far the increase of crissocs during vie tail years pointed out in the petition, may not have ari , ru troic the nitration in which th► country was placed by tto.r.liange from War to peace. - - The Marquis of LANSDOWN could not concur in the view talen by the ordsle Earl. Last year a statement of the num. Der of eitovietions and punishments for a series of years bed been laid before the House. It appeared front t liar statement, that the increase of crimes cont.) not he attributed to the change from war to peace; for it would be found that they had not only increased alter the war, hintditring the peace.— Ore predominant raiser of the increase he held to be, the State of the prisons. From the want of proper principles tot the regulation of the goals, and Irons the term of sufficient machinery for euforting the laws respecting their regolstions, they had become schools for vice, end serve.' to ' trepans the youth who once entered them for the commission of greater. ensure. He hoped that the subct would he sti icily and proosolly insestizateti by their Lurdehips, aud that they would tale into their serious coosideratiou how far a diotiou- Hots of putiislioneot was likely to lead to a decrease of crimes. Kist: alluded to the report before their Lordships relative to the Hama of preventing the forgery of Batik-notes, and oh d, that if they raeonl to put a stop to ih. lament. able etrects of forgery, they must remove the reuse There were very few instancesof the forgery of country Bank motes, while executions for the forging Bank of Ete.dand notes were aninerous. The reason was, Oct. the Cutnontitiou .f cotton y isankeis occasioned a vigilant intention Ito the part of each house to the inane of its notes. If many forged notes were suffered by nunnery smokers to get into cire-sistsons It would affect their credit. Hence they were constantly on the watch. Hal the Bank of Enticed, havens no co attention, d. I um feel the beeessits of the same vigilance. Tit reined, lisl%, be Proposed that the right of i.isswing nisi. nod 100 11011141 i mites, to the tunuopoly.of which the Batik of Esclisul had ito claim by their charter, should he gives to tue other Loniloo bankers. The petition was ordere Ito lie on the table. cliiTouy OF THE KIN&M PElt.lo7sl The House resat% eJ into a committee Oil the bill to provide for the custody of his Majesty's person. Lord ft oLL 4D111) ,as very roloetant to offer any opposition to the further progress of this bill ; he oegged, however, to be uit 1-r-inaJ as offering no objection wivitever to the pre positloo for Oaring the costody of his .Majesty's person in the Doke of York. Dona?, the greater part of the ti,oss the Wi n dsor este Mutilate:A had lasted, he had been of optoion that it was in no way iteressary to the comfort and dicntty the person fur whose use it wee pretended to be inassitmssesl, but in a t it was n i , unnecessary toss den on the people; and he Should be happy In fild that the .ruble Earl had cum. user to bit Opinion. The Eat I of Liver' mil thnuelit that, as their Lordships were agreed oil the pit mikiiie the Duke of York Casts, kersolta.thwro e.,ua I ',edict hbjs.rtion to the other parts of the bill. lie had .1:del y',..tt-rilar.lll4 l I:tert foetid lie US iliffP4ie of the estaalt , 'lm.at ; out U. +tit , runt guff, that svh..irser ant I tsstrut, it tt.t.it all to be placed Nude , the motel and re tiou of , he ensiira Persona. The Esrl of I.lVriiPool. t':ea sam had now to prom? to till up the Wanks. and to nw%r the a p l iniiit.ocut sa a lit Tuber of eGuorii, to I'l.l I) t:ie %dit•Aucy occasioned t, the death of ,he Lot it Chies 3,:sttec. tie should 'belt fore niov• this evitaiutmrut ("flub') Jelicries Pratt, Marquis of Carideo. The bill, wilt the buienAutents, was thou slimed to, tad - ,,0t Jeri"' to be tervitcd.—Adhoutsed. THI NATIONAL REGISTER. THt•RSDAY. Tho Doke of Suiscx took th oatitu anti his seat. The Duke of MONTRONE brought down the an:wer of the Prince Regent to the address on the speech of the 11, ,, rds Coin mo.ioners, eittire.sim, in the usual tetnis his Royal Highness's satistaetion at the iliniful•nd loyal addreslef their Lordships, Tae Eall of iturrnmuay reported the bill for the (moody of his Majesty's person, which, with a verbal amendment rowed hy Lord Liverpool, was orderuil to be engrossed, and • esd a iuir I time to-morrow.—Artiourited. yRIDki ; , The Karl of Thirst:l. took toe oath's and his seat, A person from ::ts India Company, presented the annual 'ac count of re.:olutions, wo—ards. &c. grsttng salaries, pensions, or an nuities, puma int to sot of parliament. The \4ll to provide for the eusiody of his Majesty's person was read a third time. passA. and ordered to be snt to the Commons, by two of the Judges.—Adj4u.lied to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, JAN. 25. CRIMINAL LAW. Time Sheriffs of Landon appeared at the bar, and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, end Common Count'il of Lamamatmn, preying the house to Lake into it.4l ensi Iro nton the state er the law respecting the punishment of offen ders. . . Mr. Alderman WOOD, fa rising I. move that this petition should Ile open the table, observed, that he was sore the sub. jeet to which it referred must appear to the lonise so he high. ly important. (Ater, Iseur,) Many learned and eminent iiien higi during the last SU years contended, that our critnrial code was nimecessarily severe, and that Imprisonment and hard la bour might its many easel be properly .1111.1[1,mi-a lot the pithishinent of death. lie hail visl'ed Newgate the day before. soil hail seen ,1,0 persons lister sentence of death, not one at whom had any apprehensions of being executed. 'the ra:citi titian was, he believed, that not more than 1 to In anti , . d ; and this constant extension et mercy, arising from the rigour of the Is w. prof., thly operated to euciiitraize lite commii•lon of atenees. %Vith there few rental ks he begged leave to move. lit the petition now presented do lie ispOn the Sir. Aldo. Mari WAITIIMATI observed, but he rove fur the purpose of seconding the motion of the lion. Alilermor. lee had nu int er oat, hoopoe*, to titter tutu a dismi s sion on the generol niernA of the piertion, hem:, .iies ely desirous el callia4 the attenneu of the house, on this occasion, to a few of tile leading faet• contained in the petition. II oppeated by this statement, that trrnam hail unmanned to 411 olaruirme degree within the laid tea year.. Th.. Mini wrist' privoilees was nearly quadrupled, having riseu front -1,041 , 1 ca 1.1,0110. Ile could state trout his own information, that, at the persons hefur. the inagi•irate. in Lomb's. a much larger number escaped with invilUity than fornseily, front the iliffientty of sending then to prisons already minded, and of bringing them Mts. motel; to jostler tinder the present severity of the penal Code. He held apa pet let hi. hood, hy whirls it appeared, that 6.1.1 of the prisons (-maimed in Newirate hag the i•st yea+ Wet, tinder 21 yeast or .I;te ; vul v as far as the arcomit eould made out cotreetly by the ktreper, die toted of those and cull 11' • under that age ainuonted to anent 1.000. !ii had no wish to trespass longer on the time of the house, Ann dwald conclude, (lint efore, ov expressing a hope, that the tot • parlance of this snuject would draw the attention not only of the lonise, but el his Majesty's Government, with the siaw of providing some remedy far this alarming and increasing evil. (hear, hear. ) Mr. 11. IlltrocitsT agreed, that it was very desirable that this cpiesti should lie folly considered; the fart War, Ihi t inere.a‘e in the metiropalis was net in so large a proportion a, in oilier places. A new I.ractiee bad indeed spiting up, 01 dries noel more artful offer tiers employing children as the in. aleinsent, sf their depreda,iens, probably in the hope, nai l sins of remaining theinselvas concealed, but that the youth o the tither culprit , %timid exempt them (runt iucurtiug the full punishment of the law. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. CONVICT SHIPS. Mr. BZNIVIST stated, that lie held it. his hand a petition f. not Dr. O'Halloran, compleitting •fe 'malty in the treatineut vrkieh lie had exp.. loured dormg his iinprisonment, moth heft,' e 40 , 1 after its trial, and inure 11410..0er of Mt sonorities on 11/..arq the trausport in whom lie is l been pieced in older to o.• cos weird to New South W01..6. Accnrtlinnao the of this petition, tie had been removed from prison and pot n.. board the Baring transport in a fit of severe sickness. lie %v.,. taken into a small ea h a t, whets. lie we. left without nom anent or ossistatire of toy kind for 19 hours, when a soil° sootily aloud was broil:lit to nisi. Ile was afiesweirls th. ow .. with 19 others, into asort °limit. or dungeon, winch Ire ( Bennet ) had linaself measured, and which was exactly t w•i•e feet square. ( hoar, hear.) The cribs were six feet and a had* in length, gad in accts of these were six hnomei batons shooed, I o tit. put pose of taking their rest. Tim consequeuce was, foie the most disgusting scram took place,ood an abominable and simmer's' vice was 01 two frequent *eminence. Ha would amens them with only one word more. 'The ship Sally, which '414.1 test year with 240 convicts, loot 40 of them nature she 4.r.ve.1 at the place of destination. He did out mile these et dements for the pluastiro of (hiding fault ; hut where the peualties of 14W was intl.eted, it was desirable that the sulkier motild experience every alleviation of his misery which hit mainly could dictate. Mr. BRAGOE RATHURsT /lOW fur humanity, aa the hon. gen tieumil had antiei i la led ; but he would readied Om house of the and dutio• the which diat prisms had to perform. lie must PO al..i ved to doubt the cot me (loess of the hon. gr olletnetea 111011114 , 100 on this Atiojeet. Indeed the gre.tter port Of Ms eomplaint• mond 10 lie ag.itot teausportAtion. (N o , , eo ,.f eem fletmet.) It. order to ...1111111 Col reCt illiosioation oil the atl,9l3et the iii11)10 lord fled sell! 1140,11 to e person ss a.. Oa/ in. 1111.1.11P1i 141111 the soporintewlence . of the hulks, will who de served Me Ii is charactes whieli lie posseosed. The person had reported that it was impossinie t i•• represetti est o Di. HallurAn conld aver have *cent real. The object of Lt. fialtorati awl the hon. gent, seemed to ae, to prevent that man frond undergoing the sentenee in the. law. A Mamma' whose mane we could moll !emu, said ;hat be eon.d hints. it bear wittier% lo ilie 1111CoMfoi1111,10 insulter its which ships, employed to transport rue..ticts were fitted up. 11.1. house would imastdcr this I.IIIPI isegligence as more un pariltnloole. when tip., were amine./ that the ttaitspui nog of C 4 1C011•10 C11•.1i 101. IVESDAt , The CHANCELLOR 01 the ExclikAtit.R roae to give notice, that the motion re;attve so the Wtoulsor estehlith , ornt and care of the 14.10i'• perm wouli be subuilltoti Ike Mauer on Tenn.:J.ly sr ii 1!, And that for tn.: aponninacon finance committee on Friday se'smight. COMMIrILE OF SUPPLY. The t'ti sticet.t.ott of the ExcitE.loce moved that the Howe do ri s I:re itself into a comoniAee of .npidy. The house iloviue gone into a committee of so-ply. Mr. Brogden WAS Citilld to the chair upon the mstion of ihe Chain• cellor of the Exchequer, the supi:!3? WA% voted of course, and the Hou•:e resumed. The rt port was ordered to be takes ato consideration 'f horsday. DR. HALLORAN AND CONVICT SNIPS. Sir T. tl. NiAItTIS felt anxious to comiteract the impression made by an lion. Gentleman 1;1,4 night. if there was any blame imputable, it ought not I.t to 41;4C:wli it/ the noble, lord at the head of the Home Department: it omit to bia ransferreil to the bowl over which he ban the hooter tea preside. On the 9th is' imolai lie had made a calculatien noon lice proportion of deaths in coo , iet and lie fount it 10 tic a 3 in 6i4Ott—that ib, lin about (12. Tin tleniau liaU stated that they had been ciuwcled so horribly hi.it it Wai sickening to Ate them. tie hail said, lil4l File Ye . . t e. n had been crowtied into the space of Its rect. This ha Ilan-rlt' denied. They lied AS great a space 're e•I rieni ass is Blilish saddled 4 as great as he hail h.. I 0.1 boa d a man of war, atni ins sun. had now. No.:c ()elite soldiers were allowed 'Hale th an t t inches. t o .. Hon. Gentleman then read the I. tolllA 1:1! • 9 !hip., aria waig the notiolier of convicts orbicla ea. h r lrried, nod the number dim died. the Kari E. the ery now in (petition, Ltd foraierlv carried to Botany II iy 3041 t , midis, of whims oit:4 one died ; she h tlire the .ante 01h1 . 0r as master, and tin' same as now. ftiere . giver was an in4tance of grealcr kilidne44 d tonna nht :he surgeon had ahuwn to under 1,t4 c •.c. lie oleic existed not an abler or a more curios Rs had been recotinuelided li) Sir Richard Inineipa lot :us skill and lininvitity (name, name.) It was Dr, Reid., BE NET said, that no to the intuitivr of persons, NI hail kited two ships, in one were 391 convi, i I ...iataer 447 ; is the Baring Ile found 20, he might sly 21 ~er•an.; rue Mr. Eyelets', who had spent a considerable fortune, was crowded tin 164 paFsace, into the sante rosin. He wont thence below sad sat upon a boa. He was much hocked with the scene 4teli crib was feet by five and a half. He 44W three at lag iii ens of them, and how nue) , lay there, he was tliat six the other thr;P, i trite- It ttely presented themselves. It might be tli.si the orders ••• so the Admiralty were th.t only font , hmi I • • • ils: He might have asked the noisier to acroinpany Mtn. But Le Cepirelletlie'd to the mailer, with Isom., for stele of pima VlClla. His repiy was. •• For ii id'. i •., . iglu Bic impression that the convicts atone . • - into my raisin, look into the soisliers'epertment, e 4 • ail rnitally crowded." So fer was Ile 11.111$ droyiug it, a • only &j a i 'vested the reoreseistioa made to huts. The -1411 Gentlernsus had esimosi id ric •itustior of . .-5 4.1 o f 1.'1114..15. LI sol4leo• weir es oelly treated, tlisit was Isra justification far noel tie,itinent to convicts : but of the sunlirrc one-third wcre nit deck during the night. rs," he know from his own caperieore. But all the convicts were shut up diuinq the night. But lie .she Iced st ...•i• s is: any One of the Gentleman opposite would ha s uf.lSed if Ile welit twit to see these coovicts. The Bigot Hon. G. said, fiat he had ssci . ri iir.r.t that Dr. k .Iyell ill. Nut been ill! He core on his coon, ga th e ,rout; altos dints, too strong in be nii , tal.eit. 11:.• Is i I neves seen man so changed Sari testimony was snore harts to he tine titan the testimosiv relied stn by the Rich' H. , . imiee: nest. It should 1w recollected t 0.., mit 111 , Surly, witirit rhrried 209 convicts, ef whom 50 diet. boil sailed at this very' 'moon ; and that the ri-asun state.; sty the :1041d I'm int: mot - - saltily was, the season of the year. lie cared not ur soldiers had as •a/1411 a space assicned io !bent nos., disused to a sea life must Mid mach confine or..t hor rible beyond ell conception. The smell, too, whirls he loud sot inesittaned, wsis surely • terriule aggiavatien. lie could 'hell re-assert, that it was a great act et cruelty to routine own is such a shoat* fur a number of hours, at night, nod under the line. Even in the abhorred slave.trade earls slave had one font and a half. Considesing these foils, he was 'sot surprised to find, by the trials he had sees repurte,l 'II/ the ~,wspisuers, that those wretches, kowled i.y evt ty kind of ritiz, clime rather to pet :sh iu battle than not t , a , attempt fleet their escape. to ttriogieg tho‘e el oel ,tlet the attention of the !louse, Got no •.% 11 1 ,1 he had no . ..... o'ljeci hot to r..reoe In+ rellow-ereahero. rront sorrel .ng Nosiece...n . , and crud aggravation of their ptini•losent. God keew that he had never proposed any oilier °hie .t tor his +netting.. tlian t• dintinieb the of bout . cry. The Criasee.t.t.oe of the I.:sett the dojout sent of the House —Adjourned. EI)N EDS Y. A variety of e‘tionetes fur the public service ef •he 3 ear verse 1411t1 on lie table. . Mr. CALvEnT pot stilted • petiiion Jr .n 1 ( ItrICS Tow mem', complaining of an uudar oetur . t letuwurlk. It was ordried to be taken i i . 1 ., I bijou u 'lnc StaA, the thli sl blatell.—Atournett. THURSD ‘Y. Mr. W. WI. PIN brought up the repot t of the room', lee of privileges, appointed yesterday, to inquire into the nature of Mr. Bortall's application to he .I.settaiged from co,toily, as a Member of th,it Ilmise. The I lon. ‘leu t he r that the committee had found that Mr..Bort o n 111.1 h. elect. ed a Member, that he oos ~ A. ooo ka tarsne prepee.s, awl upon the it were of opinion, that he wa• entitled to ink ilege of par liament, He did tint think it iseeessary to malts any further ohs AAAA 'lOllll ON the present rue , and SI I.l.lteeefore ...ova first, that ltooert Christie Burton was entitled to the ' , tin :ere of parliament ; and secondly, that he be discharge.: tnuu the C11P10,4. of the warden of the Fleet pt Isom. ;Flies* resolutions were put, and eat tied ilion'rrecontradieen!G 1q)1(01 , .RIES. Sir J•tuas Macisicau paid, lie tank thi. oppnrittaity of waking • le* remarks en • document v. holt had bees re. ready laid itt.6.t.. 1;1s Ilsuae , and tla. with the ohji-ct ut hi: motion. This tho•nt.le,it ass t al his lido. 11.11. (1.1c13111ert• will the r..ttart at the 4'04 vitiation's' appointed in iu. 3 ci, e solo th• moans of I. ss., Mu: t h e f ac ili ty Mist ienith Wilt at pleient imitated. 'rlie paid , demon:ft ord situ, thetc was little 4 , 4 no tuuytect o f p re venting Cl irnes and misetis a arcing Iran Inc pt esert s) stem, •ACept by the trot mai ef euilt 11.iyutenta. 'll2itat rc live.4l Most tilott tore 'Weil to be almost a 11,,tilni ut neves. sty to thogr ho ce9pv.1141.41 Ills hr e• of tutu sod the IMO 4:.t • (it the people a.. the iti 4 liest ti ui punut el 4 , gThi . if he Understood the iattiNtunee of the reputt, it aut,,euted to this--that Obeid 200 prtUrrta fur i olortlylllll tur co: , If UCt,llll of itank-flutor had bees submitted to the Directors oh 141 a .~ ■t Y!