The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-11 00:00:00

I.VP ERIA 1101;i42 07 LORDS. WesiellFDAT, MAY 10. Th.• met at the accustomed early hu•lr on ratan days, Wiiril th.•ir Lordships heard Poona •1 at sn•nr lencth on the Scats Aneal, Dun'uar proceed again on Friday. he IA)111) CIIINUELLOR acquaint. d the noose toe had received a hearer from the Morris of Ha•iovi, tiovcrnisr-General of Inita, acktiuwletigiug the receipt i•f :heir Lori hips' Vote of Thanks fur his eminent services in the conduct and termination of the recent war in India. TI .e !rater bias concised in the usual of expressing the Noble Writer's high :And e rate sense of the honour so conferred upor, him and the army no.ler his cu•nn.and. ! he letter, which it appeared was addressed to Lord f !i•t Horn" Ilitritarits-:, who officiated as Si?ei:l.cr at the time of the Vote, being read, was ordered to I•e P n !t. re ti upon their Lordships' Joornals: and the !loose at one o'clock aAjouractl (to-ttios row being Holy liitar.day) till F:idar. • HOUSE OF C01010:01. Wr.DNEIDAY, MAY 10. Only six-and-tli:rty Members being present •rt four the Houve adjourned till to-morrow. rut; PI1001:FSS OF PUBLIC OPLY/O.V ON PARLIAMENTARY Rl• ;rottM. Nu. XI. 'IA: Dt Kit UP R ICDDIOND'A D:a I. /OR ryirsimu. SFr /DAUS AND AN %CAI. PAUI.IADENIA. Notwithstanding the continuance and extension of l the riots, which at their conterneement bad interrupt eft the Duke el Richmond's !notion in the House of Lords, his Grace appeared determined, whether in sea >.•n ur out of season, to assert the right of every loan "I the rinunionalty of Herat Britain, excepting- infants, natant persons and crlipinals, to an actual represent*. 1... a in the House of qpnittions. He only stihmitted to suspend his purpeso for a single day; and on the b-it wing, while . the alurnis and resetitnienes of the p:. Mi.- were alive and warm, and a numerous attend ance of their Lordships was collected, presented to their ionsieteration a Bill, which, inauspicious as its introduction was, has formed a hew and most import ant era in the history of Reform. This celebrated Bill was intittiled As rlrtfrr de t!.is in' ash rer:uri,,, the nets, a!, unalienable., am! t lead •igAl f ALL at: coxmoss Great Britain persons of insane mind, and erineimais Mee pi t i n t e d by l ow . o .ly ex ,' pod ), To vorr. IN the Eke tr..): o f their Bopremotatiers at. Parliament: Fur re .aiing the "matter ty such Eleellutts: For restoring .I.5Ni AL PAHLIA3IIS7S: Fur giving an hereditury Mr Si.rtera Per,s, whit A shall be sleeted fur A.:otlemol : and, fir rstablisiliirg mure egnitatde rega -1 Luna coneer;.i,as the Prerffie ofScotland. TO _show the expediency of the measure he proposed, thp Noble Doke 10-gan to preface his motion with a maid sun-ev of the t'onstitivion of the Font ##### ns House of iarliatnetit. he accounts that have been handed down to nc of his speech, on this occasion, are t-n:Ortunately very brief; but enough appears to prove the necessity of a radical Reform, trout the defects and • MI which he pulllll4l out iu the repreAM!ll.atle sys t.in of the boroughs. The boroughs iti this coon t?y," he said, " were, according to their present e iroititutions, dangerous t,, liberty, and the great tri gine in the hands of Ministers to enforce measures the opposite to the real interests of the State. They w.re the very sink of corruption; corrupt themselves, ::.ey enabled the ministry to corrupt others, and to buy and to sell the dignity mid honour of the nation. Some these boroughs, which might perhaps have been for merly considerstile. were now so sunk, that scarcely the truce of a house could be (wind in them. In one hue ugh, in par:ieulsr, Alidloirst, he had often ob served several stones marked I. 11. 111. IV. as.e. in the park-wall of a Noble Lord, then in his eye (laird antagur). Hating asked what the meaning of them v. as, he had h-en they were—rotes, and returned rituathers to Parliament! lie immediately perceived Cost they might he accounted precious stones, and that the Noble Lord would not part with them fur a great deal of money ; yet he (the Duke of Richmond) could nut cousider them but as the glace-atones qfthe e " 3 he right of election was taken front the commt nity, in whieh it ought naturally to rest, and was placed in the hands of a very mail number of indivi duals. Thus, not more than 14000 men returned a clear majority of Members to the House of Cottonton'. The number of males in linglauld and Wales (of adult age, and in cir.:unistances which he conceived shuuld entitle them to vote fur their Representatives in Parlia ment), he computed at 1,623,000; and yet the right of essitag was., aLitreecut, couiined to 210,000. TWa surely," he insisted. " calletj loudly for-reformation." .His Grace having expreseesl his admiration and de light at the Constimtion of the country as originally designed, and explained what Parliament could do, end what it could nut do, proceeded to unfold his views and read his Bill, to show the ease with which his plan might be reduced to practice. immediately after the Noble Duke sat down, Lord Stormont •expreaseil his disapprobation of the Reform proposed, intermitted, however, with compliments on the political awl eumetilittional knowledge displayed bulb in the speech sail in the Bill hr had heard. " His brace," he said, " had spoken with the highest en comiums of the Constitution. We know what it is vow." oliserv.4 his Lordship, " but are we able to s.ty what it may be, if we attempt Reforms ? he Ruble Duke wishes, he asserts, to restore to all the subjects the right of voting ; but is he sure they ever were In possession of it ? '!'hose persons who extended the right of voting for the principal magistrates in /tome to all the subjects of the empire, were actuated by views, of which the Noble Duke most be acquitted; they were desirous to raise their fortune on their coun try's ruin. For these. and other reasons, he opposed I the RIM" The Duke of Richmond replied. and expressed a desire that his Bill might be read once, for the pars, pow of having it inserted in the journals ; and then. he add. he would consent to withdraw it. The Rill was neenedinely brought up and read; bat, as it then became the Bill of the House, and consequently out of his Oracles power to withdraw it, Lord Stormont pro- TUE STATESMAN. esti that it sl.oubi be rejeete.'; and, on his motion, it veos rrj.•. t.J witbout a 'I h.• pr:ticip!es a•d lob . : ,ects of the Noble. Untie, and! ►he tneainr•, he propose l for their attainment, will be' hest explaine.l by the preamble ah,i the provh , ions ui the Bill sail Ssvritte.l to assemble in their r•spectiye parishes, on tke 17t1& of June, to consider of the candidates wh•o oiler, and to prop✓se any other they think proper, provl,lo.l their pr..posal k , itf,ned by not less than unP hundred of the said inhabitants : That on the lit of September, the senior officer in each parish shall, at eight o'clock of the forenoon, at the church of the said parish, take the polls, as is di• rested, of all such ity..n as shall on that day be in the pariah and offer themselves to vote ; and such poll shall continue open until six o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, ■ud no longer : And that the House of Common. •o c hosen, con tinue to be the Representatives of the Commons of tireat Britain ter one year only, and no longer sad that on the first day of September every year, or on the second, when the first shall fall on a Sunday, all the Commons shall proceed to the election of burgesses for the year CJlStline. The Bill, after pr , posing v.trions provisio-s fir the attainment of the ends suggested, and directiog the manner in which the votes of the Officers and privates of the army, militia, and navy, should be collected and applied, and establishing regulations for settling contested elections, declaring returns of Members, and enforcing penalties for violations of the Art, proceeds to determine that the sixteen Pears of Scotland, w•ho shall he fleeted on the Ist day of September fo:liw lug, and the heirs male of their peerage shall continue to sit in Parliament without any new election; and that when any vacancy shall happen by the extincti in •t' the male line, the vacancy shall be filled up by a P or of Scotland chosen ley his brethren; but that some who are otherwise Peers of Patliament hare a right to vote for the election of a Peer of Scotlan I, thyough Peers of Scotland, not elected to sit in Parlia ment, should he made capable of being created Peers of tireat Britain, and they and their eldest sons should be made eligible to seat, in Parliament fur any boroughs iu the realm. P KEA M iota. " WHIRS:AI the LUZ, LIRE IT. end PROPS/ITT of Pr :ry man is, or nay be, r.:rect.-41 by the law of the land in whit}, he fires, and every man is bound to pay obedience to the same : ANL, WIIEREVI, by the Constitution of this king dom, the Itteit.T oP MAkINI: JAWS is vested in three estates, of King, Lorite, and t onintune, in Parliament assembled, and the consent of Al tl.e three said estates, conoprehetnling the whole community, is necessary to snake laws which bin.i the w!,u!e community : " NU Wllitel4s the House of Commons repr. gents ALI. Com moss of the realm, and the consent of the House of Commons binds the consent of all the Commun. of Inc realm, in all cues on which the legi slature is able ta decile : " AND W18E1111.0% mto DAN is, ur ran be actually represented. who bath nut a vote in the le.tion of Lis Represcntatis e : " AND %.IsritMAi it the 1111:111* of every cog maxim of this realm (infants, persons of insane mind., tsnd criniiii.sls incapacitated by law, wily occepteit) fn larc a rr,t, in the election of the Representative, •liti is to Kite his consent to the Malting of laws by which he is to be bountl : " AND Milt:I:EV: the number of persons who are an rered to rote fur elect nl. the M 'ushers of the ilustac of Commons, do not at this time amount to onr-ei.rth part of the o hole ess. 1111 l out ',idols realm, %thereby far the greater part of the •:ii.l t' ....stions ars. deprit ed yf their right to elect their Representatives ; and tie consent of the majority of the whole commuuity to the passing of I ma is given by persons whom they have not delegated for such purpose ; and the majority sat the said c 11111 l nullity are governed by laws made by a very small part of the said . u 1111 l utility, and to which the said majority have nut, in f:et, consented, is: themselves, or by their Representatives: " Astu WHEREAS the state of elect . of Members of the House of Commons, bath, in poem of time, so grossly deviated from its simple and natural princi ples of representation and eqnalitv, that in several places the Members are returned by the property of Orr ohm: that th.s smallest boroughs 'end as many .(embers as the largest counties ; and that a majority of the Representatives of the whole nation are chits n by a number of voters not es, ceding twelre tlgorralod: Now Ft Mt REMEDY of such partial and unequal LONDON: representation, anal of the many mischiefs which have 7141::'%DAT ILVENING, MAT 11, I9::0. arises. therefloto ; and for restoring, asserting, anti ' ssserews--. maintaining the RIGHTS or TIIK 4'4)31310NR of this We have this mornihr reerived Paris Papers to realm, be it sled aril and enacted, and it is hereby de- !Tuesday. Those of Monday are unusually uninterest dared` &r. A I ' cc '' , ewwissNrs. of this st.ithis (4.11- A•6' Letters f 3letx speak of a slight disturbance cepting only infants, persons of insaue mind, and cri- i w.sicis took place in the Theatre of that place ; it ap mina's incapacitated by law), bath a natorral, stmali.N aW, oad roma right to rule is the ctertioa of his peat* nut to have originated in any political.dilrer itepresentretiee in l'ailiameot: . enters: the reason assigned is, that notice had been " AND WHF:REAS it was aceorded by statute in the. given for the performances to commence at six o'clock; bomb year of the reign of King Editaid the Thirst , 1 hat, for the accommodation of several families, a peat ' 't bat a P.irliament should be holden every year ()nee, and more often, if need I e ;' whirls statute was con- ponensent of one hour occurred, and the 'persons as firmed by another statute passed is. the 361 b year of s .mbled, disappointed at this delay, began to thew the reign of the said King Edward the Third; and their displeasnre by tumultuous noises, and were pro the practice in ancient times was fer writs to issue for certlin; to arts of chat-nee, when the civil authorities, the election of a new Parliament every year: a..companie.l by a body of soldiers, made their appear " AND WDEKEAS FREQUENI' ELECTIONS are indispensably necessary to rna bi i , t h e (',„„no„, to a l. ance in the pit, and sneceetlei in restoring quiet. ter and amend the choice of their Representatives as Si. Dar %%XS has nit arrived at Etiole, according to a they may see occasion ; and such election% as may be report of the Jorraal etre Dc6ate: his residence is consistent with the use of a representative hdy ; and atoll at Libourne. Oa Sunday night a person was the ancient practice of elections is well calculated for arrested by six p slice officers, while in the act of such purpose: " ANts a lIIREAS T ;earliest and Septennial Portia_ placing a rocket, containing two pounds of powder, meat-, by reudrring the exercise of the rig. e. . for explosion in a frequented part of the liajlery of the tint' less frequent, tend to wake the Rep Louvre. 'I he Persian Ambassador was present on les:: dependant on their constituents, that. t • Manilas. evening at a brilliant fete given by a 31. ought to be; and also deprive the 4' .mm s • ~,... ' Boom.. His Excellency is accompanied by a young yearn after they come of age, of their Persian, who is a great admirer of the French man electing their owl. Representatives: lie I 16. and enacted, That the ELKCTION of . f. fa ners. A Frankfort article, dated May 3, mentions a *Erre e.a the Howse of Commons 0a,41 to be iferihrlL. report current at Rome, that the Queen of Engl..n I, By this Bill it was proposed— -, . • after being Oceived in London, and recognized by That the number of Members sbullWllantinue, as the various Courts, will return and fix her resi they then were, at 554: dence at Heine. On Saturday, in the Chamber of That to ascertain the whole number of Commoners in the kingdom having a right to vote, therniuistor of Deputies, the report was made on the new Electiou each parish should read the Act proposed in his pr.frt, after much opposition from the Liberal party. parish church. every Sunday in the oeselng moath of The printing and distribiciou of the projet was agreed November: to, and Monday, the lath iushutt, was fixed fur its That on the Ist of December the minister and •littenssion. churchward make out -ordiug to 50121 e Papers. no less that $4, bat, ai usual resilience to others, 79, Deputies inscribed their names upwards, against the projet. anti 33 in favour of it. parishes, • prospect to an anxious eager public ! Oue Members and seventeen written speeches or essays, of they swore Great Britain, and of the age of 41 years: various lengths, to be delivered in an assembly, which That these lists should be transmitted to the twelve allows only three or four hours' time fur each day's Judges, who shonld divide the total number of per- s i tt i ng !! sons so returned by the number 555, beiag the num- FustYru Fumns—(SATURDAY). Five per Cents. her of Members to be el... Pen; and the quotient found should be adjudged to the number of persons having 73 f. 6U c.•, Bunk Actions, 151)3 E Mc. a right to elect one Member of Parliament: That the Judges pr ec eeel t o compute t h e n umber of persons who have a right to vote in each county, and to determine the number of Members to be elected by it ; and the Wand Jury of every county, according to the population, proceed to distribute into districts the a .reran parishes of their county, and that these several districts he adjudged to be, and be called Soreness, an.: that to each borough be affixed the name df the principal parch in such borough : That each of the said boroughs be entitled to elect one Member to serve in the Commons House of Parlia ment, and no more ; and no county, city, or borough, other than directed by this Art, be in future enti tled to send any knight, eitlien, or burgess to Parliansebt : That tie returning officer of cads borough cause proclamation to he toude, -n the 15th of May, in each parish within his borough, that the day axed for eitoos.ne a new Parliament is that of September fal lowing ; and that every person intending to otter blew self as a candidate for the said borough. and dilly s i nalitied, is to send him a deelaratims of his raid inten tion ; and t!.at it be lawful for the inhabitants of tbe frpt e t tp tattOntait. INC ISSITISIII sTATES/111.?... 1. INCoRPOISAILD WITH " FATtslisol.” We received this usorning American Papers to the 13th April. (room TNII MiIMARTHA ADVIRTISIIII) The Wsshington C'i►y arzette gives a report that Oetieral Five' is the bearer of the ratified treaty ceding the Florida', and that the explanations required are unimportant. en/gauss, /Mtn 7. NtVICIATION L1...--The Senate resumed the COS sifter-ado% of the Bill sappletaentary to tke Act eon erraing navigation. M. Pane, after a kie rentarks, to shew the propriety of his motion, proposed so to amend the Bill as to extend its provisions to all ports and plac e s in Upper or Lower Canada ; bat sahse quently rhauged it so as to apply as Lower Canada only. The Bill was Het postponed to Monday. WAsatxr; eon, Man 11.—n* Clary d'Affain of th• King of the Netherlatids has left Wasltingtes, and will embark at New York on his wane to Narepe. (roan 11111 aoaeon PAP/ Rale Tx. I STII o► *PIM.) The French frigate, Cleopatra, has sailed from Oaa dalospe for Margaretta, to demand the reketse of two Hens and over4eers of each parish shook! difensmot a list of the names, a j to : Accost of the men of cording I who shall on that to Frt.:: and eilllta 'ill Ina( a of Parliameot, and take an oath Ity l.l swlg .e goat they were natnral born subjects of I bested - • 1 parions I! MAILS. AIM. DIE. I ANN. ova. 2 Dublin . I Waterford 0 (inernse) and Jersey .. 0 1 I France U Duitenburah U Ilasabureli HoLr Tat aqua r.-lloliday at Use Pablie Offers. French resse:g, said to hire been sent is there t In . 'urgent pr vat N.r g. BOSTON, AP U. 14 —The Clintonian democrats of New York enll Vice-PresiJent Tlinpltirts a public defaulter; yet two thirds of tlwir Sen tte hare solemnly &tided that the Senste owes him mare than I Lotou do:lars, and the other third are willing to squirt counts. The polities' anti personal feelittel of the COMT•'• nity have been seldom so mach interested, at a • sitting of Parliament, by such a variety of °Wert:, a: they were hr those preset' ed to the Ilonse of Cur - mons on Tn••sday. Among the tiro in point of orJ•r and importance, were the petitions of Agrirultur:s.,, complaining of the:r peculiar distress, and implori T:z the relief of the l.eglslature. The fart of arriculter..l distress is understood to be now so no.orl,siti, at :4 require no detail to give it esoArniation. In spite of all the benefits they sought for from the C..en Bill, the Farmers find themselves as eir.ch involved in difficulties as the people in general, o f w h om they had expected to have tArn advantage.— They may be now convinced that it is impossible for them, or any particular class of the coun t a n ity, t o flourish long at the expense of the rest, ur nhile the general body is in a state of decay. We !snow not the specific objects which they aim at in their agc,lir,• tions, or in what manner they expect the Leuislature to relieve them from their special grievances: but we will venture to admonish them, that no measure ran be tolerated that tends to exempt a favoured few to the injury of the public, and least of all in any tray that adds to the grievances of the poor. If agricultural men could obtain unexceptionable and unquestionable relief, they will rely not on the interposition of their landlords, but on the claims of the country at large, and seek their remedy not in any fresh impositions on the importation of grain, but in remonstrances araind the intolerable burthen of taxation under which the country already groans. The objects of Sir JAMBS 14.10EIXTOIllt cannot fail to obtain the concurrence of every benmolent and en lightened mind. For many years the chi meter of one criminal Jurisprudence has been in many of its features. disgusting to the friends of equity, and humanity and of late, since the distresses of the times have driven so many unfortunate beings to the violation of pro perty, the exercise of the laws, acrording to their letter, has in many instances been fottrol inconsistent with the public feeling and the circumstances of the country. Not only the rigour of the executive power, but strirtness of the judgment-seat have barn relaxe.l: and impunity has been given to criminals by tile fa ces, of the denunciations of the law. It is tteethsary, for the sake of order and justice, that those inentetik. tenries which have prevailed should be correct • 3 ; and since the lamented loss of Sir SAIMEL itoastELT, the at t..tupt could not be made with a more favourable prospect o •urcess, than by the hands of Sir .1 A %ICE Itscxt ?msg s'erseverance is required for the task ; but every effort will he animated and enconraged by the hearty wishes and co-operation of the wise sod good. The vital question of Parliamentary Reform it in no small degree involved in the motion of Lord Jonx RUSSELL, for transferring the Elective Franchise from' the Borough of tiramponnd. ft is curious to olnerve . how trembli»gly alive the snpporters of the rotten borough system are to, the slightest touch of the Alyce of reformation. Mouldering as it may be in part, and though its members be so corrupt that they are good neither for the land nor yet Ihr the dunghill, still its friends will suffer no hand, helmet skilful, to attempt, fur fear of injttriag its •alieatty shattered constitution. to wake it less unwholesome. or leis offensive to the rye :- 1 " Nor brush one cobweb off flt. Filters, 4‘ Lest we should shale the dome." • Mr. Divts (ltt.rers., if be cannot preserve the vrar table Borough of tiramponnd in an entire state—iti return to put ty now being hopeless--would anxioubly retain its precious relics, and spread them, like Saint's, through its neighbourhood in Cornwall. What miracles they would work among a people, prone corruption u many ofthe Ccrnish people are proved, of late to be, we cannot presume to know. That Uontleman,who i diringuished fir generalscience,tan• not foil to be well acquainted with the diapositiou of his native county. Yo far as we can lean% harem% tbo good people of that district are already is pm session of too many excltsive privileges; and, hem the wantonness of plenty, are much less apt 10 ore then than abuse them. If, as Lord hitt.-rox observed, the transfer of the rrauchise of every borough was, in case of delinquency, always to be gives ID di. neighboorisg hundreds; and if five boroegbe wto convicted (which, was by no means isrpoew ). the exorbitant power of twain votes would be thus transferred to each iudividual. His Wass dor Dam of iticisusen, in the celebrated Bill, of with* as aw -1 line will be found to-dar, in no, of oar rotator. Hs sugiesta a nsneh mure erectile! remedy At all disor der% is the exercise of the Malin Fraorisise. do* soy such expedient as lir. UILIIIRT proposed. Almost the latest Pensiens meted by Ike Cm" and payable out of the 4} pet Cate. baths, are tla followipg :—Lord Keith, Ste John Leech. awl Os Benjamin illooranold, is trust foe llopaga. aab.tb, Angulo,. and Amelia IlltssiterotA .*em" The warrant is dated Sept. f, lelt It • . I E I I~' pM i~ a