The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-06-08 00:00:00

, • • . " r --'-.- - "r91 .. 7 , - 11 ,-- T.'" .., - • , . ~ •• • , , . • •,, ~. . . . . . • . . ' .. : . 'll-IE S'I'A'I'ESAIAN . . r ' .: lot Heil wills the privily:- of v otin g , b:,.i. in 1x.% no mare who were expected l it would not be expedient to riossiscoaaplein :am, ie.s.e Catholics of nohlin or ('ork, or dor„. the , onsideratioe of the subject to 'Op e fa s a as , it er city or ism ae ho were not admitted to a participa- '`• ' )6..1, of cu privileges a the Corporatimi, and he denied that tune occasion. The House, indeed, was hardy pre the-act of 1793 ever pro;io..ed to interfere kt it Is the chartered pared to go into for of the '• ireturns, a't , rights cf any place oliateser. The Honourable Member con- (erre d to by the Right Hon. Baronet, only one' he tinned with moviiis aii amendment, that the Bill be read :Isccond time on this day six months, which amendment was believed, that relating to the Court of King's Bench, agrced to. was in the possession of Members. • Mr. PEELE obtained leave and brought in a Bill to amend fne Irish insolvent Debtors' Mill ; also a Bill to repeal and Mr. PONSONBY•said he was glad to hear the amend the several Laws with revrtl.to the Recovery of Wages Honourable Gentleman say he had no objection to doe iu Irelcud ; also a Lill to amend the Act of the s.)th of Fi te the princip ,le . of the measure because such mOtions flirg, with respect to Mail Cisache4 ; also a Bill to amend the 4 ,ii lathe Jilrfglor improving the City of Duhlinauil Its environs. as the present were of the utmost use to the public, These Bills were 'rad a first, and ordered to be read a second by calling the attention of Parliament from time to • tittles time to the various abuses that existed. He had no ' • At r. L A MBTON presented a Petition against any change in , the Cart, laws from the town of Sunderland, which was, he doubt his Right Honourable Friend would willingly • 1 „;.s . ..; . 4. ;...i 11% 5,11.1 perso's. . concur in the wish expressed by the Honourable Sir l'. I' 1 i1? it ELI. took this occasion of stating, that very , Irwmper means !In.! :te t •ii wed in obtain signatures to some of 1 t;entleman, for postponing the discusslon at present. ' the Petitions present' , ' • . !h.• !low.e upon this subject. In One Mr. PEELE explained, and begged Oat he might ' instance, that of the town .if '‘elso, he was &wowed by the most I I not be understood as giving any pledge\to snipped roe cetable authoriky, that the sizi re ettures of children were ac ' :totally annexed to the Petition—nay, even French prisoners ! the principle of the motion. He had merely stated seers resorted to in order to swell the lists of the Petitioners.— l that he did not object to the motion being discussed. aseil, pr similar impositions upon the House ought, he felt, to . Sir he folly exposed. 1 iJ. NEWPORT then withdrew his Resolutions, , - :... gention was ordered to lie on the table. I and fixed them.for that day se'nnight. FlihiS tpk.' TILL COURT Of JUSTICE. i Mr. HOME SUMNER moved for leave to bring • Sir J. NEWPORT began, by declaring his our - !in a Bill to enable Magistrates to baild proper places ' prise to learn, that doubts were expressed by some jto preserve Public Records, &c. I . lotions as to the right of that House to make any! Mr. Bankes, Sir C. Monck, and Mr. C. Wynne, . ,uijelry reyeeting the Fees received in the Courts 9f , stated their objections to the object of the proposed Jassice. For such doubts could not possibly be en. i gill. testained by silt oit:'e acquainted with the recorils Mr. H. SUMNER said, that he had moved for ' or the doles of Parliament. In the 27th Report of , leave merely in consequence of instructions he had ' the Finance Committee, there was a distinct decla- received, but that as it appeared to be contrary to ration of the right a n d duty of Parliament to enquire the sense of the House, he had no wish to push it.— into, in older to check great abuses, and to regu- He therefore withdrew his motion. ' , latkihe fees or charges made by the officers of the : WOOL BILL. • several Courts; and the Interposition of that House Previously to committing this Bill, aeon Otis subject in 1664 and 1693, was recorded i M r. HUSKISSON, after a few observations, in oa the Journals. Therefore'he felt that he was fol. which he painted out various vexatious proceedings lowing various precedents mid pet forming his duty ; which prevailed under the law as it now stood, with to the public, in moving this Session for a return of •:. regard to the retinuel of wool Irons one place to ' • the fees received by the several officers belonging to , another, moved that it should be an instruction to the diffeteut Courts of Great Britain. The House ' the Committee to repeal so much of the said Act as had thought proper to adopt his motion,and' among. related to the removal of wool. the returns made in pursuance of its order, he was . The House resolved itself into the Committee, and : • concerned to say, because he must conceive it to the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow proceed from error, that some of them were mani- (this day). • fatale erroneous. For instance, the return from the , Mr. W. FITZGERALD brought- up the Irish Clerk of the Rules of the Court of King's Bench ' Treasury Bills Bill for raising the sum of 1,716,6561. stated, that there had been no additional fees in that' which was read a first time, and ordered to be read department since the returns made in 1798, although a second time to-morrow (this day). from a hill of costs which he held in his hand, there , APPRENTICE LAWS. • had been a•considerable augmentation. In 1798, the Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved, that the Order of : the Day should be read for the louse resolving itself charge for a Rule was only 2s. 6d. whereas it now amounted to 4s. and of this increase it appeared ex- : into a Committee to consider of the sth Elizabeth. t:aordinary, that when the Legislature imposed a Mr. LOCKHART said that Counsel were waiting tat of one shilling, the Clerk of the Rules thought to,be•beard at the bar in behalf of 'certain artificers reper to add sixpence for his own profit. Thus an and journeymen who had petitioned that. noose '•• otfice,which l according to the report of 1793, yielded against any alteration of the law as it now stood. • 29001. a year, had received as additional revenue of Mr. Alderman ATKINS wished that the discussion : F 3 8. at the espence of the suitors for justice, and should tie postponed to a future day, considering the this too in an office that was „ s aleable. The return great importance of the measure itself, and the very ustu from the Maisha I of the Court of King's Bench . few Members who were present. ' waapqnsilly erroneous, forto the fees which amount- ' Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW objected to any delay. el in 1198,10 131. 4d. to less than 7s. had been since Sufficient notice had been given of the whole measure, ambled., Yet the return distinctly stated, that no and it had been deferred from day to day already, cintoge whatever had taken place, and this it was to so often, that he thought himself warranted in press • be recollected was an office held by the son of the ing the consideration of it now. With regard to the Chief Judge, and executed by Deputy. The return Petitions that had been presented, very., few of the from the Clerk of Xisi Pries was also erroneous, for persons signing them were really affected by the pro there ton it was stated, that no change had taken posed alteration. He had looked into sixteen or • place since 1798, although the fees which then seventeen of them, and found that to be the case with amounto , to 15s. had been since augmented to 229. all of them. In one, the wool.conabers of Devon- SA this office too was held by a son of the Chief shire prayed that no repeal might take place, when, Judge. Upon loch extraordinary returns from these in fact, a repeal had actually taken place four years offices, which were either saleable or held by the ago with respect to all the woollen manufacturers of Chief Judge's own relatives, he (Sir J. N.) did not, England a n d Wales . think fit to make any comment. With respect to the ; After a few words from General GASCOIGNE, . who woke in favour of going into the discussion, Court of Cnancery it was remakable, he said, that no return whatever had, up to this hour, been made i the House resolved itself into the CiAnmittee. from that Court. Then as to the Irish Courts, there j Counsel was called in ; *heis t • had been no enquiry since the Union, although that' Mr. Alderman ATKINS said that if the Corn measure rendered 'enquiry more necessary. For the mittee persisted in hearing Counsel, on so important House was not to learn that whenever abuse was , a measure, and with so small an attendance of Mem likely to occur it was most to be apprehended in.! bers, he should feel it his duty to move that the places remote from the seat of Sovereignty, because , Committee be counted. there it was less exposed to observa•ion. In referring A coaversation ensued, in which Sir F. Flood, to the proceedie.;s of the several Colitis, its cense- Mr. Serjeaut Onslow, Sir J. Newport, and Mr. Pro . quence of the order respecting fees, a fact had beets . theroe participated, when Mr. Alderman Atkins communicated to him, stsich was of a very peculiar' moved, that the Committee should be•counted. It character indeed. The Chief Judge of one of these was accordingly done, and there being only 27 Mem • Courts ordered the officers connected with it :sot to . bers present, the House adjourned of course. make any return to that House until previously re vised by him ; and this Judge, upon seeing a stale meet in one officer's return of a sum received for a search, immediately expunged that, observing, that this sum %pas a gratuity, and not a fee ; to another ollicer also, this Judge observed, that a tee which had been. received for twenty years was truly a new fee, and, therefore, not within the view of the or der of the House, which referred only to the aug. mentation of fees.—[.l lattgh.]—These officers had in consequencs made no returns, from a proper feel ing of unwillingness to make any returns inconsistent with the sense and spirit of the order of the House.. The Right Honourable Baronet here took a review of t;!e conduct of the Scotch Courts, and observed, that from the returns before the House it appeared j that' the Lords of Sessions had thought proper, of their own authority, to order a fee of 3s. to be ex acted for every-paper presented to their Clerks, al.' though the Act of 1810 contained a schedule of fees, with which schedule this order was quite inconsist ent. This additional fee, which served to put about 30001.8-year into the pockets of half a dozen Clerks, and which, in fact, imposed a tax upon suitors, he thought an extraordinary assumption, upon which it' would be for Parliament to decide. Into these seve ral points he did not, ,at this late period of the Ses sion, prepese any specific enquiry, but he felt it ne cessary that the House should declare its opinion upon the subject. The Right Honourable Baronet then moved a series of Resolutions declaratory of the various points urged in the course of his speech. Upon the first Resolution being read by the SPEAKER, Mr. PEELE rose, and suggested to the Right Ho nourable Baronet the propriety of postponing the dis cussiott to some future period. Front the short no tice that had been given, it was impossible that the House could have anticipated the nature of the Re solutions, the first of which he decidedly cr,:,,11 ;oiled. He did not rise to oppose the motion, but only to put it to the Right Honourable Baronet, w hether, consisidering the thin state of the House, and the absence of the Ministers of the Crown, necessarily caused by the arrival of the illustrious personages ; An. Mails. Due ---- 1 1 , 1 0 Slakta 1 0 1' (ICE OF STOCKS THIS Hank per Cent. Red. 6711 3 per Cent. Cans. • • 6 per Centro. 5 per Cent. Navy Louie. Ann. 16 5-16 DAT AT ONE O'CL.OOK, India Stock tr.d:a Bonds 5 6 p Ecchcipier Hills 2 3 p Omnioen 401 Pay ditto Consols for Acc. 031 9 I 1 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1814. The Moniteur of the sth inst. arrived this morn ing, containing the New French Constitution, which, in some respects, will be found to resemble the English. It is, however, in some of its features, very different; and, particularly, in that which gives the initiation of Laws to the King. Ness, JUNE 4.—The King, with his suite, went this day to the Palace of the Legislaive. Discharges of artillery announced his arrival at half-past two o'clock. The Marquis de Dreux-Brese, Grand Master of the Ceremonies ; the Marquis de Roche more, Master of the Ceremonies ; preceded by 2tl Deputies of the Departments, met his Majesty at the foot of the great portico. The King, after hav ing rested a short time in his .apartment, proceeded into the Hall of the Sitting. On his entrance, in cessant cries of Vive le Roi! Vivenl les Bourbons! were heard, and uttered with an inexpressible and indescribable energy. His Majesty was seated on the Throne, having on his right hand the Duke d'Angouleme; on his left the Duke de . Berri; on the right of the Duke de Berri was the Duke d'Orleans ; on the left of the Doke de Berri was the Prince de Conde ;• the Chancellor was in his p.m chair,, the " Ile is far from entertaini Gond ,Master and the Assistants of the Ceremonies ecutive power should not mere in their usual station,: :Two the clerical manner as always existed I Peers, and six of the lay - ones; ' the Ministers, himself provides an eats! Secretaries' of State; the Maribals of France, and offers equally a guarantee the First Inspectors-General ; a Deputation of the guard to royalty. He or Grand Cordon, and great Officers of the Legion.of chief of the great famil, Honour; a Deputation of the Lieutenant-Generals He himself will give to OW Field-Marshals were seated upon benches un- Charter conformable to tierneath and on each side of the Throne ; the ; and the respective situation Senators, the Members of the House of Lords, who enthissiasm with which the had received sealed letters from his Majesty ; and the -the spontaneous eagerness Departmental Deputies Were seated in the form of a taryanthorities, have cony crescent, fronting the throne. I truth, that France was The Assembly stood uncovered. The King was I and regarded the power seated and covered ; by a motion he invited all to be power necessary to its ha l seated ;—a profound silence ensued. 44 His Majesty, therefni His Majesty spoke as follows : tween him and his people " When, for the first time, I am amongst you, the ties of love, mutual surrounded by the Great Authorities of the State, their engagements. France I the Representatives of a Nation, which is continir- tecting power, without !ally showing me the most affecting proofs of its love, ing oppressive ; the King I congratulate myself for having become the dis- subjects—always free and penser of the blessings which Divine Providence rity should .have .I;fici enk deigns to grant to my people. ! ties, compress all factions, " I have made peace with Austria, Russia, Eng- mies which may threaten land, and Prussia, in which all their Allies are corn- ness. The nation may, prehended, that is to say, all the Princes of Chris- rantee against all those tendon'. As the war was universal, so will -be the of which she has so long peace. The rank which France has always held amongst situation of the kirsgdot nations, is still preserved . undisputed. The security !storms, requires some precau which tither States enjoy is equally her own, and,. mosities—to prevent all consequently, adds to her.power.• The conquests of interests—to induce all F France, which have been given up, do not diminish lirion of the past, and a her real strength. Theglory, of the French armies "•Such; Gentlemen, is untarnished; the monuments of their valour ex- with which has been revisA ist; and the master-pieces of art in future belong to ter, which the'King ha y s of us, by rights more stable and more sacred than those old Senate and the last of victory. : first authority has ceased " The ways of commerce so long closed are about which bad established it, to be opened.' The French market will no longer be enjoy with the King's as* confined to produce of her own soil and industry.—' and already done away * Those which habit have rendered necessary to her, (members ire, nevertheless; or which the exercise of her arts requires, will be i of the kingdom. This Ki provided by her restored territories. She will no them by chusing from am , longer be reduced to their privation, or the procur- ; their confidence, and mei ing of them by ruinous c o nditi ons . Our manatee- the public esteem. tures are about to revive ; our sea-ports to have new their wisdom ; tied+. ow life ; and every thing promises us a long state of trap- vat iota' many impoont of quillity abroad, and a durable felicity at home, will ; "It is the enanieitoWs be the happy fruits of peace. A painful retrospect of which they were a t always troubles my joy. I was born, and I flatter- going to be laid before yo‘. ed myself to remain ull my life, the most devdted to the two [louses created subject of the best of King ; and I now fill his jto all the Tribune's, as wel 'place! But, however, he is not wholly dead; he doubt not, Gentlemen * to still lives in the testamentary legacy which he be:. enthusiastic gratitude, w! queathed for the instruction of that august and un- 'Capital, will be 'felt "to tl fortonatcaild, whose successor i was destined to dom." iteoorao. ft Is with a fixed regard for that immortal After this discourse; ti WOOL"; penetrated with the sentiments which dictated Ferranti, Minister' of Ev Aaided by the experience, and seconded by the court- I the King respecting the C la of many amongst you, I have revised the Consti- I dressed to the French mitt tetional Charter which is about to be read to you, and The King informs them, which fixes upon solid bases the prosperity of the called for by the actual at state. My Chancellor will detail the particulars of -then stites, that having rec, my paternal intentions." b in the King, he appro' It would be difficult to describe the effect of this says, that his ancestors speech. Cries of Vice k Rol!. resounded frOm all acted upon this principle. 's I ides. . • reformations due to the pi The King then commanded his Chancellor to lay before them the Constitutional Charter. The Chancellor spoke as follows 66 GENTLEMEN, SENATORS !—You have just heard the most affecting words, and the paternal inten tions of his Majesty ; it is for his Ministers to make the necessary subsequent important communications. What a magnificent and affecting spectacle of a King ho needs our respect only by the aid of his virtues : who displays the imposing aspect of royalty for the purpose of bringing to his people, exhausted by 25 years of misfortunes, the so much desired blessings of an honourable peace, and the not less procious one of a reforming ordinance, by which he extin guishes all parties at the same time that he supports all rights. " Many years have passed since Di►ine Provi dence called our Monarch to the throne of his fathers. The rights and prerogative sary to the welfare of t the Deputies is replaced . b. i the Champ de Mars and le I thus :—" Firm in our per science, we pledge (nisei be faithful to this Cons l ing to ourselves to take th is new solemnity on the all , in his hands the destinies i 4 ‘ For these reasoniwe . haye i free exercise of our Royal ! do decree, concede and , i well for us us for our auL following Constitutional Chart THE PUBLIC RIGHTS ' 1 Art. 1. The French are all eq , I ever may he their titles or their At the epoch of this itent, France, led astray by false theories, distracted by the spirit of intrigue, blinded by the shadowy forms of liberty, was be• ' come the prey of all factions, the theatre of all ex cesses, and a prey to the most horrible convulsions of anarchy. She has successively made experiments of different forms of Government, till at last the weight of her evils has brought back that paternal Government, which, for fourteen ages, has consti tuted her glory and her happiness. " The breath of God has overthrown that colos sus of, power which has oppressed all Europe ; but, under the ruins of a gigantic 'edifice, more speedily destroyed thin raised, France has discovered the immoveable foundations of her ancient monarchy. It. Is upon this sacred basis that we must now erect a du rable edifice, which time, nor the hands of man shall be able to destroy. It is the King who becomes, more than ever, the corner-stone, round whom all Frenchmen ought to rally. And what King ever 'merited better their obedience and their. fidelity? Recalled to his states by the unanimous wishes of the people, he has conquered them without arms, he has subjugated them by love, and united all minds and all hearts.. " In full possession of his hereditary rights over this beautiful kingdom, be wishes to exercise the au thority which he holds from God and his father only by salutary restraints upon his power. 2. They contribute without property to the Fstates. S. They are all equally admiral' ployments. 4. Individual liberty is. equally prosecuted and arrested but .ia ►` and the forms it prescribes. 5. Every profession of religion protection. 6. The Apostolic and Roman the religion of the State. 7. The Ministers of the Catholic Persuasions", are paid •ut of the 8. Frenchmen to have the right their sentiments, conformable to• abuse of this liberty. 9. All property is inviolable; which is cdled national, the law 10. The State may require the the public interest, legally expressed conditional indemnity. 11. All disquisitions and °pint the time of the'ltcstoration, a're is enjoined on the tribunals and the citizens. 12. The Conscription is abolis'vel. the army and navy is determined by a la' FORMS of the GO VERNMEN' 13. The person of the King is inviol Mini•ters are responsible. To the King cotive Power. 14. The King is the head of the Estate the Forces by sea and land : declares peacei alliance, and commerce; appin administration.; and makes the regulat , the execution of the laws and the surety _ 15;lbc Legislative .Puwer is exercised rtaining the iden,pothwnadet.tba i t t e b d e i twi i o se u l r y c c o h r e n c t k it e u d t , jo i gi n. n o w I s e t : b t l o is ht the nation, t o i o f n , a only wishes t o b e t h e to etaii r: ick ily of which he is the fatt ier . to Fraric6 a Constitutiowst o their wishes, their wantei, ion of men and things. T. the King has been recel,& less of all the civirattd onrinced his Majesty of this s monarchical by sentime n t i r of the crown as a tutelly appiness. .efore, fears no distrust be.' ?pie ; inseparably united!), confidence will cement di °once requires a Royal pro. the possibility of its been. • tig requires free and twi lit id equal in his eyes. Ands.' ° ent power to crush all par. 1 Dos, and confound the ea t . :en iter repose and hap* require a •go e . , on its part, s. kinds of. abuses, the evils ig experienced. The pretest )m, after so . many years of , recant ions to appease rill ani, reactions—to consolidate all Frenchmen to a gonerousobs a general reconciliation. • is the truly . peternal spire ised the Constitutional Char, ordered me to lay before tho t Logisletiee Body. If the ?d to-exist with the power it ; if -the wood can oily authority uncertain power s , with in many respects, these 95, chosen from the notables King hii:Jfitewise consulted' nougat thein the members ofj Ore than once pointed oat to hail thus - .Celled to his hid' Wed4.o their Trofeund oboe. additions ! • labourof the tommisslen, constituent part, which. is - ou, and.: which will be sent ed by the ConstituthM i und .veil as the linuicipilltleis. I . but it will excite in you an -hid, front the bosom of the the extremities of the king. the Chancellor gave to M. ilstate, the Proclamation of 'Constitutional Charter, ad• den, which he read. k or, that a Constitution wet state of the kingdom. He recognized all enthority to ayes of its modifications, and at ditfe.teitt periods have e: He has appreciated the arescnt statelef knowledge. tett of the 'Crown are the people. The Of 1 , by the ancient assemblies of fe Mai. lie then concludes worpose l strong in our con. Ives before this Assemhlyto ;titutional Charter, resew. he oath for its rapport vvith_ (tars of that Being who has • of Kings and Nations. have voltratari,y, and of Of LI Authority , dicreea, set grant' to ' . our iitibjects r as kccessors, 'and for eser, the Charter : TS OF FRENCtIMEN, qual in the eye of the law, what r rank. distinction their proportion of missible to civil and military c* ally guaranteed ; nobody can be the cases designated by the laW, • m enjoys equal liberty and,eqttal ' a Catholic religion is, bowevet, olle Religion, and those of other to Royal Treasury.• tilt of printing and publi hine to- tile laws which represi the ; without any • everptioo to that w making no distinction-. he sacrifice of property, should pressed, demand it ; but with a pions of the state of things up to ~• e ft:Bidden. The saws ()Widest the citizens. • • The Mode of rectal:sot dbyalaw., . . RN NI ENT of the ICING'. is inviolatile and sacred. • Tits _ the King solely belongs the Eli.- the Estate ; he , is Commapder•rf eclares war; mikes treatir (•f • !; appoints to all 011{V1 • I !. regulations ai;d ordinance. he surety of itte is sserciscd conjointly by the • • _ •- ,