The National Register. — London, England, 1819-06-20 00:00:00

JUNE O. Mr.wrmx said. that though he did not entettain the slighted doubt on the question himsek, he mold not have any objection to withdraw his complaint that night, ilia: were allowed to bring it fervard to-morrow night. Mr. BaonnEsr gave notice, that he would move that the Hou.e on iti rising to-morrow, adjourn till Friday. The other orders of the day wtm disposed of, a d the House adjourned at half past two o'clock. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. ADJOURNYVNT.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCREQVEII moved, that the Moose at its rising should adjourn to Friday n , xt.—Agreed to. Loam Buci,.—On the third reading ((the l.nan Bill, Mr. P. (urrrKLL ruse to propose an omission of the clause regarding the pre.. of the Bank on the boar. of ig,oeo.ount which s•a, at tie rate of KW. pot million, amounting to pfusg. One tenth of that expence would be amply sufficient to remunerate toe trouble of the Bank ; and he therefore thought, in times kite tile present, that every possible saving ought to be erected. He moved the ornhsion of the clattoe,,. The CHANCELLOR of the Earn actor a said, that such ..11owances bad been made from tittle immemorial ; and that as it I ad GO long prevailed, and as he enacted there would not be any ether loan far may years, be thought it would nut be advisable t.i Fess the saving row. The Bulk deserved something for voaltic. and he saw no reason fur departure from the previously arraged amount. Tile motion for the ontiminn of the clause was then negatived without a dirision.—Thc Bill was then read a third time and passed. BREACH VP 'PRITILEBE.-.--Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from the Tins., ReporteT, praying to be discharged out of cuato•ly, on paying of his fees. Sir F. MIRTH:TT a,;ain protested against the power assumed by the House in this and in either instances. under the name in What he denied to be privilege, to try persons in the way of which this Petitioner had been inie I and punished. Besides it seemed that the words reported. and summed not to have been uttered, now turned out to have been partly uttered.—(Sorge reit., of no.)—He understood some lion. Members to have ex- In eanal that they remembered the cheers, the smile. Ae.—(!fear, liter.) lie pro*ested against the power which had been exer cised, and thought the Petitioner ought to be discharged without raving of his feat. The Hon. Baronet expressed his &swish mint that the debates were reported with so much accuracy and ability. Lord CASTLEREAGH COMM not see what ob ject the Hon. Baronet proiniod to himself. As an Advocate, lie was a must injudi c ious one; as a Counsel lie was a most suspicious one, the. Hon. Bart. having tried the question of privilege ta various ways, Dea l f a . Led ; and as a friend in this instance he was not likely to effect meth good. The offence which dad been committed 'rasa a cal 1111 l nions mature; and it was no excuse to say that it •had not been intentionally committed. It might have been productive of most fatal extremities ; and therefore-it could-apt pass unnoticed by the House. Mr. W. COHST4I4AT was sorry foe the CRUM whirl bad been pursued by the Hon. Member. Mr. flositisson add the mettqwesentation was most gross I had it been otherwise, it could not have passed unnoticed by the Hight l ton. Gentleman.—( Cries of Ai do ). Mr. HUME SSW, hod the Hon. Baronet been in the House when an explanation was wade on a former night, lie (Sir F. B.) •mold not have insinuated that Ilse report was in fact en.: eat. Lord BINNING also declared • that nothing had been said to warrant the insinuation that the repose was substantially correct; and lamcnod that the Hoe. Baronet should have lent himself to countenance any such ftzling. TAs report was most fake, find, end scandalous. Mr. Urn L KTON said, from what herecollected of the speech, the report wagincarroet. Mr. C. Ilutou issue* thought the Noble Lord (Binning) was not warranted iu using the language which he had adopted ; he was neither warranted in s.iying that the report was wilfully false, nor in ch ',ging the Hun. Baronet in on onftirly lending himself to countenance error. As to their privileges he would. net be deterred by either of the Noble Lords, nor by an Hon. Member, from expressing his opiniGit rev: cling any individual act, or any question of privilege; and as to the exertion of their privileges this leasion, he thought they had been enforced most severely.—( hear.) Lard Blaine: eatpleised, and said he bad not intended to 'lse any unparliamentary language. Petition brought up and read. Mr W. SMITH then moved, that the Reporter he placed at the L'ar fur the purpose of being divrharged.—Agreed to. The Repot ter having been placed at the Bar, The SPEAKER said. that in consequence tit the Repor ter having confessed himself the author of the parser's/Ili, afterwards voted to be • scandalous misrepresentation of the debates, a calunittiotri libel on one of its Members, and an aggrawated breach of its privileges, he had been-com mitted to the custody of the Sejestitt at Arms. His Peti tion had been received, and that, as well as the manner of the Petitioner and his explanations, had been fully eonsi tiered. The sorrow and repel which •he had -new ex 'messed, coupled with his conduct yesterday, the Mouse had been iddriceel to extend mercy to the Petitioner. A teprimand had been directed, and then the diveliar.ge of the Petitioner ; but the Speaker was desires's that this-le nity should not be misninitistoel. The.iteperts remelted .from the indulgence of the Hou.e, and en abase of Slat imleilzritcr ems,' owed all ageravated ofenee . ; and it was desired that this should be deemed a pithier waning that any filmic °Renee of a aiasilar, character, let It be esonniit ted by whom it might, would be slaked with the utmost' ignar.—(Clieras.) The Petitioner was discharged On payment of his fees; and the reprimand was ordered to be entered on the Jour nals on the ntotietrof Lord CKstlerettEli• l'etitiEßS agciu.t the Foreign Enlistment 11111 note pre sented from Live, pool and Al M•RItIAGE Ace.—Mr. W. S)IITH observed, that in bring ing forward this motion, lie found himself fortified by the contents of several petitions which had been presented on the aultjert. The prayer of those petitions was for dune alteration in the nuariageservice, as it respected a particular ,class of indisi doe's. The Fie -swim complained of was described in as brief terms as possible in the petitions then-selves, wfdeli stated that the marriage • service, as peessuritied by law, was, in some of its parts, incon s id e wt with the ranieiples of their religious belief. Prior to the net of the tenth Ceo. It. marriage was considered in this country merely as a civil contract. To die ceremonial ap pointed by that act the dissenters generally entertained sonic objection; but what was lltßiplitlDEol Of by his clients on this occasion WAS, the various expressions relative to the doctrine of the Trinity which occurred in it. By a recent statute they had been relieved , from the penalties and disabilities imposed by laws which had become almost absolute, but it was still unpleasant to their consciences that this doctrine should ilia - minced in at 'wanner that implied a reco;.raition of it on their part. As this introduetion of it was pertectly useless, the petitioners hoped from the liberality if the hulthr, that in their case it might be dispensed with. Before the act of George 11., mania;;: was held to be essentially a civil contract. For tlis proposition he had the authority of Mr. Justice Blackstone. it was net then requisite to its validity, that it should be connected with a reli- SIOUb mammy. 1:101f1 the operation of that act, however, Jews THE NATIONAL REGISTER. and Quakers were exempted ; and he believed that the petitions which they addressed at the time of its posing, had led to their exemption, although he was aware it might be said that they were a snore defintal body than the clam whom he now repre sented. That the old law M the country had always contemp lated marriage as a civil contract, mama evident from the pre amble and provisions of the Isith Charles 11. e. 33, respecting marriages solemnised before j,!.tices of the peace dunng the commonwealth. In that set it was not treated as at all necessa rily connected with any religious cemmony. The eGth of Geo. Ili. had appointed a certain 'entice; hut it was not necessary that the 'whole should be gone through in order to render the act binding. it was usual to omit tevoral parts which were not eon. ronant to the delicacies and deconnu of the pretest day. The petitioners did nut ceinplain et' the general colour of the mar. rutge-service, but of a distinct paw of it, the emission of which, in certain cases, was the object of the measure it was his intention to propose. Th 6 measure would leave every other class viduaL precisely in their present situation, as it was only at the request of parties disapproving of that part of it that the satiat ing minister would be authorised so make the omission. No additional duty would be imposed upon the minister, bot,on the contrary, he would be exempted from the painful necessity of doing what was disagreeable to others. He proposed no alters nee er rtsluctie . of tees, nor did he conceive that any descrip- tion of property could be affected by the measure. It' it were important that the marriage -contract should he sauctiuned by a religious ceremony, it ought to be congenial to the religious principles anacientiously entertained by the .p.aties. lie knew t tat many persons regarded marriageas the most solemn eogage mem which could be coatesced, and that it was highly advan tageous that it should be clothed with the sanctions of religion. in taking oaths ' the religious creed of the person sworn was always made the teat and security of his emelt:ace: the Jew WAS swum opon the Old Testament, and the Malmaietioi upon the Koran. The analogy appeared to him to be extremely strong. Ile feared, however, that the association of a religious ceremony with the marriage contract had not always the good effect that was ascribed to it.. If they looked to those countries where nuiniage was a sacrament, it would appear diet its vows were touch more frequently broken than in the northern part of this kingdom, where no religious ceremony was essential to its talidity. Under all these considerations, lie should now move for leave to being in a bill to alter and amend the marriage act, so far as relates to the ceremony in the ease Protestant dissen ters from the church of Fogland. Lord CASTLEREAGH did net rise toebject to the ibtrodaction of the bill, but as he was not aware of the provisions it might , contain, he must reserve his opinion till the measure should be inunecha sely before the house. Mr. Wisacaroacs observed. that' be had sty beard a part of his boa. friend's eessewatism hat be perfeetly . acquiesced in I the propriety of aliveleedsa 1111 ea be buoy* an. Hs mold not help feeling _ems appolleallea lest the several emu be which babes. &knelled epetea of 'armless as o devil earl:set Might be alemAsssesed. , There mould• be airehiubt that, se far as enigma vas anwerned, it might be se daisolioatal, but the insslisdlea was itself of divine ordinance. To this inuitution numbed' the superiority of leurope ever Asia end other portions of the earth, especially in social and domestic life, might be attri ' bated. He certainly approved of the general object of the bill, and its particular provisions waddle the subjt et of future consideration. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. 'fur o tveut I)ebtorb' Bill wa. coomnittesi, when there arose considerable IiiSCII*6II/11. A clause to exclude the application of•Ceawa Debtors, except where they hail the approbation of thelitroww, was agreed to, after opposition from Lord Attloorp, Mr. !leaden, &r. Report on Friday. The other orders of the klay were thew disposed of, and the 'house adjourned at half past twelve (*Mack till Friday. IMIDNY, siallas IL NEW MALT Tax.—Mr. Coat (of Norfolk) held in his hand a Petition against the New Malt Duty. He was aware that he could not present such Petition —he only desired to read it, as it was couched in mealy kviguatee. lie could nut but give credit to the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer for the manner in which he had brought forward the new Taxes; he took care that, the pcoplcuf England should not have the opportunity of com plaining of them, otherwise the table would have been laden with Pennons front every alms of the suffering people of England. Might he be allowed to read the Petition ? •The GHANCEIbLOR of t h e EICCHE6II7ER rose, and moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn to Monday. 'Ordered. Mr. Cows: again iota, ter the purpose ofiending Ow Petition, but the Speaker said the Hon. Member must be aware that it would be oat of order to read the Petition. NEW -lacxxcEs.—On the motion that the House resolve itselfinto &Committee on the Excise Licences, 1 The Marquis of Taviteroce expressed his disapprobation of the . 4new taxes. The Ministers were supported by overwhel. mingmagorities: but how were they obtained, by the influence, le the House being elected for SCV4II years. and . l l 7tt people madly having so little to do with nutty °hire returns. He wo .1d redo ali additional taxation, till he saw that House so constituted, and so acting, as proved that they sympathised with the people. The CUM/CELLAR of the FM:MEW/ER defended the taxes, the new duties would not advance the prices of the articles, oar. tales! not the price of beer.—.( Some lovelier.) Mr. CALVEIST said, he never heard such extraordinary teaser. dons in the /louse of Commons; and the very reverse of what had been stated was the truth. Mr. Cox*: reminded the House how extensive were the die. memos of the country. lie would not agree to impose any new taxes till expenditure was seduced to its lowest possible cute.-- lie speed with a Noble Marquis (Tavistock) as to the.'neceseity of reform; it was a corrupt House, and what good could tie expected from them. (Cries of Order.) He trusted that triennial Parliaments were not very far distant: septennial Parliaments were most injurious • till they had such Parliaments there would be no security fee t he people. This was proved by their conduct when they were about to meet their constituents; then they knew how to behave themselves. Last Session they wookl not have ventured A. propose these new taxes. Lord J. liosere.i. had not muck confidence in the Ministers as to the expenditure of the public revenue; hat that was not the question which was now under consideration. The fresh suFpliei now proposed were of most injurious tendency. They Mil on the poor almost exclusively and certainly mo severely; and as they even attacked beer and tea, lie did not bee what was to be left to them hut bread and water. The House divided on die MaNuis of Tavistock's amendment, that the Committee be poetroned till this day six months. The numbers were, for the amendment. 90--against it tOst--- hlajoaty The House then went into a Committee on the Bill. The proposition to lay the duty on the stock in hand vecasioned division : fur it 175—against it I4—Nlajority The clause to raise the duty Is. ?d. per bushel, was also divided upon—Ayes 171—Noes 82.-- Itijoaty 8). The elawie liilpnsing Ilk :Additional duty un British 'pmts It/US agreed tow ithout n domain. On the tlause iinesing ail additional exei•ie duty of four per cent. on ten being sead, several social,. is spoke against it Mr. T. WILSON proposed, Si Hit amendment to the clan, that tig per r em. b e paid on all teas sold at the sale, at Of ender 2s. per lb. ; and 100 per cent. on all sold for inure than Ys. per lh." The Cal DICSLLOR of the Eat or.cuL IL caressed his e. 195 linness to adopt this proposition. The Itiaht Hon. Gents stated in answer to a quest' put by a ti.einlirr, that a great deal of tea waaaold at the Italia House not only wider 2u but antler 14.6 d. The clause as amended was then onanlosonils agreed to. The Huase resumed, mud thy report was ordered to be re. ceived on Monday. The Co A NOM LOR of the Egos trauma moved the order of the day for the House resolving it►elf into a Committee on the Castems Dulles DK On the clause being put, which proposed a duty of ed. per lb. on sheep'. wool and iamb's wool, Imported front any part of Europe on and after the Slit of October. 1819, and trw■ any other pail of the warl.laia and after the sth of January, 1820, - - Lord MILToN said, be held is his band at that mowed 23 Petitions, and his Hon. Friend had more, which, 'though he could not lay them on the table ceosutently with the forma lities of the Hume, he them* ft Ms duty to mention, in order to show the feeling which prevailed on the subject.-- Of ail the new dirties whit' had bee. imposed, three %cascane se impolitic, nose so incbciaosto the manufactures of the registry, as the wew tax upon wail, the staple of England. Mr. T Wir.son (London) homed the House, that vrhea hr informed them that he intended only to say a few words, he intended to adhere mow strictly to his promise. The words he had to atter arm his own itowinight akihritectree of the lax now proposed. lite question being again loudly caHeil f theitesse di vided— For theta:, 106 I Again 4 it. 61 I Islnjority for 44 1. The CHA fault PI then reported progress., :tad etyrreqed leave to .it ngnia. The other orders of the day were disposed ric .awl the house adjourned nt a qaarter past three o't lock. FROM TUESDAY NiGurs cAzErrz. WHITEHALL. Jura le. His Royal Itighneia the Prince Reggrat has bean 'deemed, in the name and on the behalf of hie nfillety. to direct letters patent to be paseil under the Great Saba ae United Kingdom of Great Britain and trelacd, for angedating and appointing 'George Harry Earl of So:inlaid and Warrington to be his Ma jesty's Lieutenant in the county of 'Muter. in the mom of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington Jawed. Hi., Royal Highness the Pities Hogent hes been pleased. in the name and ea the behalleibie Idejsety. as appoint William Marquis of Cothian to be Lietnnanaand Maria' Principal of the shire of Mid inning mesa d lite Duke of Buceleueh dammed. _ . is devil Ilighaeatt has ahm bast *wad, in the name cna so the behalf of his Majosty. to 'mist Chaska Marquis of Queenabeerym be Lieutenant-and Sheriff Prineipai far the stirs ollkanfrits, in the room Of the Diet of Doecletteb deceased. WAR OFFICE, luxe is. 17th Regiment etnot.—Lieut. Gen. J.Champoipte. hoot the 41st Foil, to be Colonel, rice Gen. G. Gosalidlimossed. 41st Mijor Goo. the Hon. Sit ~.Roopford, X.C. B. from •the Roysl African Corps, tobeeolonal.vice Lieut. Gen. Ch.:2l - to the command of the pdi Font. Canons ir a.—l G.J. Reeves, on the half pay of t7ll 27th Foot, to be Liniment Getman of Placentia, vise GCII. G. •Garth deceased. • BKNKRUPTCTRS ICATI.ARGED. G. Brook, Lockwood, Yorkshiso, woollen manufacturer, f.cm June 16 to July 3. H. Ridley, Booing lone, carpenter, from June 12 Id BANKRUPTS. R. Oarnett Nantwich. Cheshire, shoemaker. T. Goode, Hinckley, I.elcestersliire. hosier. M. W. Sankey, Canterbury, brewer. S. Sewall, Aldersgate Street, plumber. W. Parker, West Teignmault, Devon, grocer. P. Leigh, Wheelock, Cheshire. grove& W. 11. Baldwin, 'Limpet, merchant. J. D. Duffy, Paternoster Now..Christchorch. 11. R. Fanshawe, Addle Stsestorawning maker. B. Martin, MidtUessit aturst, Whitschapel, victualler. H. nod J. H. Towaend, "Sue Ct.. Ferihtirch St., merchr , tt. P. J. -Gaugain, Caw& Street.Soho,.silrerstnith and jewellts. J. C. Whine. Mitre Court, Fenchurch street, merchant. J. Mattheas, Pray, Somerset. shoemaker. DIVIDENDS. July 3, 8 13onex.St. Cburehiard, silk and ribbon ma. nufacturer.--G, F. Lear. Strand, bru,li nukes—C,, 3. Curtis and H. P. Griffin. Ludgate Hill. oil and colour men:bomb-6, J. • Doves, Burnham. .Bucks, butcher—l 3, B. Rounic, Great Carter Lane, borers' Comonaaa,conchinaker-40. J. Brown, junior, Rodborougli, Gionesaerallim, clothier-31, W. Crowther, Banner Street, St. Luke's, wale/1 manufacnm•r. WaTcatoo Titortttss.—A few days since a nu inerous and must fashionable-party attended at Bul. lock's Museum, Pieualilly,•to witness the sale of the carriage end other things which belonged to Napa- Icon 43onaparte, and were captured at Waterloo. The articles were all eagerly bought up, and sonic • of them at most extravagant prices.—The following statement of the prices given tin some of the things •sill serve to show in what estimation theke relies , are held : l'lteCurriure • - 1166 0 0 Mush Ope..nlila.b Tenth Bre.h Snuff Ric 166 19 6 Military Stock, or Collar ..... 17 Old Sliorn Ratio (etriniimii) • 4 4 •'0 Piece of Sponge Sharitig Brush -8 44 0 Shirt tl 3 0 Comb .......... .......... .. 1 0 Shirring Ito* Pair of Old (,lures .......... -1 0 0 OH Pirelli Handkerchief ... 1 11 tl Minty other articles wore sold farsprices equally high. A private ktter,teceivei on Nron3try by a respect. able house in the cite, states, intended Li. surrection of the Georgia otgroc3 had been discover - ed and irustrated. The following is an extract :— r " Aisgasta. Ma) " plot of in , urcec lion of the blacks of this place 4:1 , ! surrousoling well dlg,:..tc.drsthaps as that rr S. Muni:Ago, had r. hii 4 was to hate beeu erteesited f , Natstrtlay last, An t fur po urideutial Interference, was let day turthilately tliscovered,and malty of the ringleader* are now cooling, te d far trial, and will prubabl) sttUil *mot the awful 'concoct which awaits