The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-26 00:00:00

VP *r - ~'~" ~. t 1 ~. ~- I. t $ A►:,~ . . . .. wild, on the other other hand, that many parents ‘nulil he averse to part with their children, end mate every piterfine to retain them ; but the tempts- lion to improvidence was so great, turd the distress - occasioned by that improvidence so pressing, that few would be able to act on sock pleasing impulses. The only true remedy for the evil was to breed up the lower classes with the idea that they must depend on their own exertions alone for their own support. — Another clause to which he felt a great objection was, that which enabled parish officers to boy land for the purpose of employing those who could not 'find work. If the land were poor, it could only be cultivated at a loss, snd the Poor Rates most be in. tressed to the amount of that loss; if the land were rich, the cultivation of it with perish fends would be en injury to those who laboured for their own support. The whole enactment was the result of that unfortunate principle that held it out us possible to 'white a demand for labour whatever the circus. itances of the country, or the state of esanufacteres And voinmercr, might be—a prieciple so &bleed that it win at once subversive of itself. If this principle were not abandoned, wages must be brought to the lowest limit that human misery could endure. In fat; the Magistrates at Birmingham had actually on lllthis principle lowered the ges of the nailer', and told them that dip must ' up the difference with ilk relief out of 01* Poor es. He, therefore, en. treated the Home to coasider whether the persever ance in this system would not plunge the commenity into an Irretrlevsble danger, which could only end is a convulsion. On these grounds, he thought it *Ms duty to take the sense of the noose on these theses. After sent observations from the Bishop of Lon -sow and the Marquis of IiVCRINORAM, the Earl of LIVERPOOL said a few words, and, as -we understood, the clause relating to the prevision of children separate from their parents was withdrawn *Mm a division. The :Marquis of LA NSDOWNE, the Esrl of Ma- Soares% and Fart GROSVENOR having made some observations on other classes o f Bill, and several 'verbal alterations haring been agreed to, the House .divided on the clause for rating the lsndlordi of •houses efwbove 41. and under 201. annual value. ,• c. , troitents. 17 I NowCaatesis, 71 Majority, 10 The other daises were then disposed of, the House • relented, and"the Report was ordered to be brought ip tettnerrelr. The Parish Vestries Bin went through a Commit lee f ftipert to-morrow. "Oa briating up the Report of the New Churches' Bill, , Lord-IfOLLAND..eomplaieted that the laws con -neetia '4lth tMs subject were Most 'complicated, and 'after a few obsetrations, he moved a clause to repeal 'that part of the 'Conventicle Act which imposes pe nettles upon Clergymen of the Church of England for 'reeding the Liturgy, &c. in. any places not Parish Churches or Chapels, licensed by the Diocesan. , rkir Earl of II ARROWBY observed, that some Of Obi most obnoxious parts of the Conventicle Act ''(22 Cur . IL) had been repealed hi 1812 . He thought Msepreposed clause would lead to the subversion of 'I necessary discipline in the Church. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY also opposed the clause. The Contenticle Act had been entirely reptifled with regard to Dissenter!, though not with Vill*s to members of the Establishment ; but the "ifilsksS'phipoutd iota do away with some' of the lieitoeVed and valuable Canoes. • bird HOLLAND congratulated the rause on lie Sestate of 1812, to 'Nth the' Earl of Harrowbp bad referred. • '"'After a few words fromthe LORD CUANCELLO a, the clause was negatived, and it was ordered diet the Bill should be read a third time to-morrow.—Adjourned. _ _ lIOUSE OP COMMONS. . . ! • .. .14iTATIOltS. Petitions were, preveated from lair T Aldervna, from the ITlntler• and Pluatbers of toradim.'fr the Prnprietnrs of Wiwi In Candies'laid asd Northumberland, agaimi the Mines' Akougsrmist Sill I alimffent Mr. Faller, praying to be heard by ' Conroe' against the same, " Petiti.wis irereArreirated Realist' the Poor Settlement nut, dfree worceornaare. by mr. Cymbal. from Knorr by Mr. Copies's, - from Plsainuth by Ste, C. Pole, trma Wolrer ftwmphm by Mr.' Littleton, and from some other plans. • .Mr. CHI CH PAMIR preAated - a Peritimi from John Thom. eon.. Distiller, af Carywhfcrgal. complaining of his liminess being stopped 4x the siblirary ermine. of the Connaimineren of Slit e. Mr. C. urged the necessity of revising the law so as to limit the pewees at the Commissiowers. The Negeriable Securities Rill was read a 'maid time. The East India gliipping Hill and the • East India Marriage RIM severally neat Arnett§ Cisstratifeetw• mild were reported. The Widows' Prise-[money Bill was read a strong slaw. .. The Clandestine Marriage Rill went through a Coasusittee,— The Report Mil rewired. and ordered to he printed. The leish Fever Bill. the alit Bounty Bill, the /risk Rank Restriction Rill. and the Irish Autism Bill, were severally read a third thee. god passed. Mr.' lIRMIGIIAM brought up the eridesee of the Cam mines an Ediersima. e r i lt e G2.ll . EßT e broisgM up the Eleseath Report of the , -o t ', •. 1•A; MINES' ASSESMENT RILL. ~,,t,., , , DO'. IMO,PAITT moved the sifted' re9ding of the Mines'. Assess opt 'Bill. . Mr. BROISC RAM said, ' [Kit ai lids was a late period of the Senior' to lip t ipadece a Bill on the deli. cote subject 9( the , fuel, 4tve--a Bill, too, objec tjoesble in. principle,,; * .Tept, Air eland and not 001 to narrow the 11 e, , reepesement, he trusted hi the Ilooourable • MoVnv4ets present to withdraw it. Mr. MORRITT cpoteeded, that the Bill was only to prevent au evasion of the present 111 W. * a sdon of the Court of King's Beach it was deter. gaol,- that *ones the Owners of Mines who re e sti a share of the gross produce were to be ge mmed to the root Rates. on that share, yet if they memi e sted it for a money rent they were not liable to Issreseessvd at all. The Bill was to remedy this inequali4y, and et any rate he tholght that either all, mines should be subject to the rates or all should be exempted. 11 1 ii: Mr. D. GILBERT said, that though, from • property in a mining country, it wo# be hie o r , west to (ippon, all Charges on vaines t btoonld net help considerine the Bill a fair one. kth, county of Cornwall, where 9.loths of the. nstnoiq prodece of the kingdom was raised, with the easeptiem of coals, which was subject to peculiar laws, tbe a4in . . 7 . or; of the anises bad always been rated, sad it v *' i only a quibble that the owners of any *km: .. been ezempted. There was a dialcelty in the' caly in which the oweei woe the sole adventurer in the mine. In that case the Ron. Mover Of the Bill had taken the share which might be considered deo to I t~ i t. { t co F FS the OW and mace eery present, for in , gas. Report, missionen Coe( tory Compulsion that , pointed to adoption neodo state mot: referred to 10, of IL, those ment, dolled to lessens their ceeding Coi D. part ch► the et T 1 a tt ;.7 LiROM THE AMEBIC .%? PAPERS.) BOSTON, APRIL 20.—From the length of the very able speech of Mr. Barbour, Chairman of the Com mittee who reported the Bill to the Senate " con cerning Navigation," it will not probably find a place in. the pipers, bat the important facts contained in it should be laid before the Public. . This distinguished Legislator observed, that the 'lnsidious policy of which we complain, and which is attended with such unpleasant effects, might be summed up in a few words :—Great Britain has Ong her ports in the West Indies and North American colonies• against the vessels of the United States.— Not a cock-boat, not an atom of any thing that is American, does she permit to enter, while she mo destly insists to bring any thing that she playa from those possessions to the United States, and to put. chase and to exclusively carry the produce end ma nufactures of the United States in return. This co. lonial system is the more intolerable, as it is ex closively directed against us, inasmuch as she in dulges to the vessels of other nations au Intercourse withheld from us—a course aggravated by the con sideration that she stands alone in this policy, Ass dam vessels being admitted into the French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish colonies. Thiscoorse, so injurious to our interest, and so offensive to a just pride, claimed the immediate attention of the Go. vernmentoind efforts were made to obtain redress by a treaty, but the President, in his Message, in. formed Congress, all hope of redress in that way was desperate, and he called upon the National Legis lature to interfere. 'l'he amount of British tonnage employed in this trade, Mr. Barbour stated as equal to 138,000. From the 30th of September, 1803, to the 30th or September, 1801, 69,525 tons of shipping entered' Jamaica alone, from America; aud, as Jamaica em. ploys only one-half of the tonnage of all the colonies, 138,000 tons may be presomed to have sailed OM America to all the West Indies, to man whis , ie. quires upwards. of 6,000 seamen. from the tables which Mr. Barbour laid helms she Semite, it appears that the United States imiseeted annually 7,500,000 gallons of rum, of which only 1100,000 gallons were 'sported, leaving to be coo. earned in the United States, say 7,000,000, of which 4,000,000 comes (rot:elks, possessions of Great Bri tain. If this measure,'he •observes, were to be at. Imsded with an entire esclision of this baoefekspirit, eitelean who duly appreciates the morals aaaillealth aod Character of his ceingi/j would .find indemnity ; but, paid"( denslderations of tit= apart, what would beams smelt ins cesamercialfplalat of view? If Oar people will use ardent.ipirim,.tise bread stuffs now sent to purchase tMe article would immediately find a market at to . szi t bsbeirtoitl, vested into spirit of a less perwi The &skates a .Gs se Beitsiebet 4108,096 efere1,5r2,415 gallons of molatiitteditteeillln the United States, which is oily abet 1111144milrili, a large portion of which is ennefesteritik iffte rim, and whaterer deficienq may 'be 94.4401LI v osti,ose, Age will be a tuitional benefit. v ial 1. t t.We import 40,149410114 peends of corm*, sif which only 2,01)6,000 conic from Me British cnientis,; but 'we export 24,009,000, kali* to be aseesetioihs the United States over 16,066,000; hencejtattetity from the Dritith pleetalieet iltotald el orgy, to are quantity eaphrttio.b.- 1 • ' • . (.1 Of liege,, we impeded AlliDit; . l?l i pnerid,, meir exported 66,000,000 ; 12,000,000 of which Neese . from the British possessions bet, as we espial PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONI: O'CLOCK Hank Nina • • :' 4 per Cent. SW 3 per Cent. Red. 771. 6 per Cent. Navy 107 U S per Cetit.Cuirnala NS India Ono& 92 3} per Cent. Long Ann. Illii Cumuli for Ace. 791 Kadvequer sill 20 21 p . TfIE ST,ATESMAN. LONDON t TUEIDAT. MAY 26,110 The following is the Balletic' of her MIMS* health issued this forenoon : " Queen's Palace, May 26, 14'1464M A.Y. " The QUEEN continees mach the nose to.dsy as 11141 1 1111ararrx was yesterday, hulas prod anode' good night. 44 W. MILLMAIL B. HALFORD.* to the Noose of Lords, last night, the Act for stl• ditiooal appointments to the Queen's Council went through a Committee, when the LORD CIIANcELLoR conceded to Earl GaRT'S more constitutional argu ments, the propriety of giving to Parliament the ea mination of the additional Members. We will beg attention to the important Dsaire of this measare, which has now, in a manner (rather an odd one), bees settled.. It will be recollected that some of the .reasons urged for this alteration were, that it was as gallery the additional Members required to this coa elate should reside at. Winasor, to attend to the Klysn's comfort and person, the great Household Officers being under the necessity of neglecting this paramount duty to attend to the performance of their *BO4 functions in town. It now appears that though , fiur additional Members have been appointed to this Council, only one is to reside at Windsor, and that this costly and enormous establishment is still to be kept ep, to preserve the comfort of our un conscious Sovereign, end the cootenieoce and dig nity of this one resident Councillor!! The news of ;hoe additional Walled itittelee important and aentakti . to remark. ,rioVibetil.-6ahe Bishop of Los pox, who, it would appose frail this. fasainstion, hags *PO spare time upon his lands, the.Sarl of MAC ccirIiTIERD, Lord Sr. Haute's, aad#Lord demur, from Ireland. The Queen's Council will therefore, ;in future, consist of twelve of such efficients, smell 'whom, should any vacancy arise, the nomleatioa of aLesccessor will rest altogether with the QusErt. To tbe, other object of the Bill, for obviating the steeseeletei outlying the old Parliament, in the mot of 101.412(awit's demise desks; a dirsolation, the Loth *Volta) souls classes, which wore sifted 4R—ibillt RR attention was proposed is the preamble of the Act, although it takes no notice of the most important part of the Bill. So much for the attention paid to high matters. rt ow for objeo. of lower 'cousideratioo. The Bill pretending to he for the amendment of the law relative to Poer's Rates, and the Parish Vestry Bill, which operates, is we have before proved, a most dangerous revels, et •-• ),.ji) -)g .A t. - n A , )i.4A114 1 LT ESMAN • • r*, . . • • ) re Bill en the . Encouragement of Parthekklite 111 Al,OOO, he entire elusion of that attic a . • 1 rellised..—••The Bill was ordered to be reed a third the latish ish possessions 'ild act only on th e pa n . 5 .., '•asorreve. , lily 'ported. to : 1 ' 01191111g0Nifill .FOR ENQUIRING INTO Tilt The facts clearly eeince, ks r. &Omer, 1 elm or TAR ENGLISH COURTS OF JUSTICE. we ar ent i re ly i n d e p en d ent ' o rest *hat ;', l Sir J. NEWPORT rose to state the nature of the solos which he proposed to submit to the Hone, stipple, far beyond our wan may be preka re d elsewlare and the only dimin ion will be i n t h e ad which was founded lapon the statement of the Fi. ex.oralk ; the extent of which l coMpared t o ti e • sacs Committee. It was not his intention, In the ton ' ner ._ put out of emplitymeot by the S y S t em o f ' • erldels ire complain, Is so .etterle insigeticiit'ii. 6, cry thin state of the Buse, to press his tootles resent, if there were any intention to oppose h 1 1 . u sase t eing of notice. tooddittou, ir wilLue 4 m om , or in that case be should feel the propriety of pus mike of. small par d. o ... o r s toppi nr ier ereitly u sus 1,: ening it to some Were day, when such Membe irt a rk.o: procure en 4afiniteTy realest advisee', ao . "mild be lo attesdaoce as were likely to take a per another, of which all telly perticiptate. a the discussion. •The motion which he alluded t Mr. Barbour asks—Can Great Brittle' tor else. vas this—That the Finance Committee, in its lOtli,4e re . b., ilepplies of breed,4oset, anil theep4 t i a import, having espressed an opinion that the C0rn..... 41614 sounecie d w i th a m p prospo w y, if 461 . 4 . sissionen appointed to enquire into the Fees of the &wenn,. of -her colonial , postramioes ? 'illefa . b e :purls of Justice in England had been rather dila. clearly ory in their progress, while the continuance of the showels out of •Iter phiellr: . r Whet then will he tfse rtbielf'df illi measure ;matnsision was attended with mech expence; and p o w. t o • cav es % ? OIPd li r bili wilt etth il t bet persons holding other offices ought not to be ap.. traceter steps, or esiablbh 'lin ,eiVrepot, which eill ointed to that Commission ; this [louse do subscribe -he to out advantige, when conirasled, with her coat D the justice of that opinion, and do recommend the bdi t i oq . • . . dpption of measures accordingly. Mi. Barbmir eloquently concludes--It is time to Mr. BATIIURST said, that be did not feel it his take 'a stand. • Let our demands be founded injus. shy to accede to this motion, and that, therefore, be t i ce _4 et par vsepese h e firm-4m as n or twen t alt , suit, if it were weaved, move the previa,s questioty ing mountains—adopt tie broad prineipleto trait a ll specially as it implied i reflection upon the fdasrersiut na li f in i as they treat us. If they talk about a want lanoary, and other respectable Gentlemen who b•-' 0 ( "equivalent, unroll •the map of our country, and . ingot] to the Commission f 41,a41,14 tom. , = I expose to their astonished eye' the boundless "stem, Sir J. NEWPORT observed, that from iillietilvitorr the oiaraet of Niagara to lb. month of thee°. ran objected to, he would postpone it until We.,, . lumbht ; .tell them of the variety of our ) clithatr, and Insley. In the mean time he could not forbear tot, _,. the ertintr et our 14_1 of . u its vast production., tate a particular ground upon which he thought his ," I so **spatial to their commeree; and when we hap notion called fur, namely, that the Commissioners 'se done, let theoulanovr it is but the first dawning of gelled to had, in their consideration of the feel •• liken by the Officers of the Court of Chancery, al- 1 ::: f......dsterearta. wealth anti ei itie •- ir. 1)14 )4. • • anii 1 - owed and authorised' one fee of 11. 75., and another AcialaWgerby a spftit 'to? eettpr• of IL, although it was afterwards pointedwet to promp t e d t h em to l eap t h e b oun d ar i es h e re to f ore p i e- hose COmmissioners that by a special AO of Pirtle- scribed to the human mind, and in unexplored r e. neat only one shilling was allowed where they sane- gloss to•discover new secrets in the arts and sciences ; ioned 11. 75., and no fee whatever where they al- and that of all this, under Providence, freedom is owed 11. This fact alone served to show the care. the creator and preserver ; and that it has not entered into the mind of man to conceive the pitch of elm. useless manner in which those Commissioners did heir duty, and suggested the necessity of some pro. Lion to which we are destined. When you have told weding in pursuance of the Report of the Finance them this, arrogance heel( must be dumb. ,• 4 7,olarßiliff. The adoption of this measure, which is now before After a few words from Mr. BATHURST and Mr. Congress, is certain • and every patriotic china D. D. Gum's/. who disclaimed any intention on the must feel proud that the Government have at last as. "art of the Finance Committee to reflect upon the sussed a firm and dignified attitude, in relation to a branch of commerce which has claimed and received :homier of the Masters in Chancery connected with its attention, and never been lost sight of since die ,he Commission alluded to, the conversation dropped. . . . On the motion of Mr. NV EnaEn, and after a short P eace pf 1783. conversation, in which Sir J. Nary and General W WASHINGTON, A Pele c i j Secretary at War, to ro.After debate, a motion ruttra oou took a part, him was Riven to bring in was adopted to instruct t port at an early period of the nest Session of Co.. II Bill for extending to Ireland the lair of this coun- try with respect to Extorters under twenty-one years Riess whether auy, and if any, what reduction may d age, and to Matrimonial Contracts. — Adibented- be gain the expence of the Army Establishes's!. . TB E NAVIGATION JCT. ---- --oww- - PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK hunk Stoat • • :' • 1 4 err Cent. saii THE STA jectionable might be amended in the Committee. Mr. S. BOURNE professed himself friendly to the Bill. The conduct of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Gilbert) on the occasion redounded mach to bis in• tegrity and public spirit. Lord MOItPETH spoke, bat in so low a tone, that we could not hear him in the Gallery. Sir J. GRAHAM conceived it doe to the parties whose interests were affected by the measure, to postpone its further consideration until the nest Ees. sioo. As an Amendment, he therefore moved, that it be reed a second time that day oil mouths. The House then divided—r For the Bill, 781 Against it, 51 1 Majority 18. The Committal of the Bill, after a desultory con versation in which a further postponement was-se commended by Mr. BROUGHAM, in order to afford time to the parties, was used for Wednesday neat. CHARITABLE FUNDS. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to propose an.Adriters to the Crown for certain Accounts. It appeared, that, some years ago, an individual bad bequeathed a sole, amounting to 120,0001. to-charinittle purposes. The will, on the ground of some informality, was eft aside;_ and the testator' laving so kindred the pew petty devolved to the Crown. His intention', in moe. big for an account of that property, was to consider s whether that might not be s'proper fend to meet thy expences of the Commission about to enquire inie the Grants for the EdocatiOn of the Poor? ~ He therefore moved an Address to that effect.—Oidered. PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT. . 'Fhe SPEAKER then rose to call the attention of the House to a subject of importance to their Privi leges. The trial of the King against Merceron, about ten dip since, was matter of notoriety. The short hand wriper of the House had been sobpcenaed to give teslitnent of what bad taken place iii one of their Committees (on the Police of the Metropolis), and had attended, and given his evidence in the Court 'of King's Bench, without any leave of the House, ob tained. Having stated so much, the Hoene weekd see the importance of what he bad communiceted.— lie would have taken an earlier opportunity of doing so, had he been in possession of all the information he had desired on the subject ; but he had not re ceived an exact account of what had taken place at the trial, till just before he came in, the short-hand writer not having written out his notes. It was die venient further to state, that for many years the Josrost-office had been so open, that ant one apply ing fbr permission to the House ( whi t application war always instantly acquiesce dl in,) old obtain any portiou of the Journals he pleased, a rate of 2d. per sheet. The Horse in almost all anted leave, when it was asked on soppositi the proceedings were wanted for a good pur Zhe only case in which he had known of a refute!, was in that of Lord George Gordon. In one instance, a request had been made, not only for parts of the proceedings, dot also that their sliort.hand writer might be ezamined in. a Court of Justice—that had been complied with, and it was iu the time of the present short-hand Writer, Mr. Gurney ; and in ea• case for his conduct on the present occasion, be eras bound to state, that he (Mr. G.) had supposed no. LtMlig more was necessary than the suboccne, and had 7.lever before this day known that the permission of , ; the House had been previously obtained for his at tendance. The Reese would see that it was a most Important fluty to protect their own witnesses as well as they guarded their proceedings, and that as their r e i c a e s ed ii ing w s i w th e o r u e t n t e h s e e i r r , witnesses. Mr. B. BATIIURST then rose, and said tket be would submit a Resolution to the House on the sub ject to-morrow. , The Report of the Irish &chequer Bills Bill was brought up and agreed to. . POOR LAWS. • Mr. STURGES BOURNE moved the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Report on the Settlement of the Poor Bill, for the purpose of postponing it. The Order being read, the Hos. Member moved, that the Report be taken into fur ther consideration on this day three months.—Ordered. The Malt Doty Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Tobacco Importation Bill went through a Committee.--Report 10-morrow. The Committee on the Churches of Scotland Bill wee postponed till to-morrow. On the motion of Lord LASCELLES, the lions. went into a Committee on the Cutlery Trade The Noble Lord stated, that the object of the !Nil was to enable purchasers to dratiriguish by proper marks between articles of good maosticture end counterfeits. lie then brought up a douse, which was Breed to. , Mr. Aldeman WOOD brought up a clue, that so articles should be merited with the word `• l:oodoa," unless they had been manufactured in that city. This clause was agreed to, The House then .resumed ; and the Report was ' ordered to be received on %Vedriesdsy.nest. The Committee, on the Soldiers' frailiataill was poopo l iia till to T mervow. • I iti:l The Rupert 0 Irish Etch, Licensing 13W was brought up end reedi'end ;be Bill was ordered to be reed a third time to-morrow, and then enifevand• The lunatic Asylum Bill was ortiered4et be repel a third, time to.mprrow... • 0 0141_ • i. Tfife Port 'pose Si *lo !reeds ain,,,.ehe to illegeed * third thecto l etorrow. , ..A. Bill for raising 1,1,009 .1 0001; by tz e zujift was brought in, reed tier s ,eleg, 1.404 read a time tri-mr4low. R•, ,41 91•*. A Bill for 'raisin 800,00014' BOW by Treasury Bills to Ireland,, was . beoishA er,st thms aid Otdl4loto bqk I,4ls4fceftdsfilikw %arrow. _ 3, Tbolieue wenOite a UOWIMMeIi iPIR OIL The Repo was ordemt eft be Fecload . Mdeneei WOOD brought up the Report a him in his character of proprietor, as i..l2th, which he (Mr. G.Xthongist a fair proportion, and had sated hip► eccordiegly. Sir C. MONO& opposed the HUI. Lord LASCELLES treated the House would adopt themeasere. Little had been said against the . .