The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

MAY 24. proposition to make wee of these papers. which had unknowingly bound their way to the table. It was either great neglect, or a gross breach of faith. nit to have destroyed those papers. Alderman WAITIIIIAN complained of this breach of faith with the public, and protested against the proposal use of the returns. They were moat fallacious documents to proceed upon. for property in the City of London had since depreciated on.: third, tit some instances one half. Sir J. GRAHAM then begged to withdraw his motion, which IMF agreed to. Lord Camden's Sinecure-profits' Appropriation, was brought an by the thencellor of the Exchequer. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. STATE OF TilE NATION. - Mr. Treater then rose to brityt forward his promised motion, for a Committee to en - guise into Cie State of the Nation. He must own that he could not comprehend Low any act of men could be circum stanced so as to be less envied than the Ministers opposite ; none had more patiently borne such treatment ; and if at were a mere party object to triumph, they had only to let the Gentlemen op posite alone till the end tlf the Session. ho set of Ministets had ever stood lower in the public estimation. Their car.ly vigour was their vigorous adherence to office. But he sought for no patty ttiumpli. Ile desired that they should do their duty to the people; that if lie made out that the Nation was in a state of peril and difficulty, they would interpose between a weak Administration and a tottering Country. That wac the best duty which an honest !Jowl e of Commons could perform ; and he was glad to say that the present House contained more Ktmbers who did not belong to any party, wl.o !wiled to mess es, nut to *nen, and who, he trusted, would aid in trimming the balance this. night, so as to justify the expectation of the Country. The Country. Europe in fact, now appeared In profound peace; and lie tnastcd it would long continue ; but England, like the Conti nental Towers. ought to be engaged in repairing those financial oilapidations which the war had occasioned. Unfortunately, however, they ditl rot behold the Ministers so occupied, at limit with any efficiency. The Ministers might take credit to them. selves for what had been done abroad ; but still, was it net a state of great uncertainty. Five Powers now arranged Europe. 'there was an Holy Alliance, and he hoped it would he as rightly used as it was piously wooded.—( H ear, hear, and a laugh.)—The state of France, however, was most improving, more so than would have been anticipated two years r.;-„o ; with a limited Monarchy. and a Representative Government. With such strength, it was desirable. that England should have equal strength and promise. America, too, must be an object of anxiety; and had two Englishmen been executed under diffesent eirciunstances, it would not have been borne SO patiently. But lie blamed not the nowloct of Ministers; they had acted with proper caution; but England in showing that site was desirous of eostunaing Pc-are, must prove that such desire did not originate from the dread of War. —Wear, hear ft—England's strena,tb must be manifest, or there was no security for the continuance of Peace. This was not to be made by encouraging Armin, or Military Asylums ; hut by a well manned Navy and a flourish ing Exchequer. With these advantages he would defy the World ; ithout doors there was no security against new diffi ciiities.—(Hear, hear!)--.As a, our trade, it was worse than .nothing ; sad as to Commercial Treaties, there were none that merited the name. Spanish A merica presented an interesting spew tack, for who: could be a more affecting sight than to belied a whole Continent contending for Eseedom ? Yet instead of keep ing this.-olvantage as a remedy for the distresses of our trade, the Ministers had now a Bill on the table which was to exasperate the whole Continent. it could have no other effect, and it was a most disgraceful measure.—(Loud civeri-ag..) Then as our trade %VW, worse than nothing, what were the prospects of the country ? The financial schemes of the Ministers, if schemes they could be called were as cheerless. Since they lost the Property tax they had proceeded on no plan whatever, and they trusted to the Chapter ef Accideuts. After they were defeated, then, what could be expected of them, with a debt on their backs of mo,noo,oaat ? Could they be expected to resign ? No, nobody , expected that from them. (Much laughter.) But it was ex— pcted that thee ssouhl produce some plan to enable them to go on ; but none load they had since. Awl as to the reduction cf the debt, how trifling was it ; 54110,9c01. in three years of peace. The debt now was ita5,000,000/. When the facts were an melancholy, and ke could prove fie facts, was it not lime for the House to ant:dere ? Were they to let the Minis ters proceed mismanaging the Country's affairs, only because they were not strong enough to propose such measures as would be useful and efficie.t. (Hear). As it was, the dividends conld not be paid without the assistance of the Bank ; h.. the Bank withhold the .C 6,000.000 and the Chancellor of foe Exchequer would as soon raise the dead as pay the dividends. The Bank. ro doubt, would °antique to do as they had done before; but if they should think themselves hardly dealt with, and it was said they had such opinion, what was to prevent them from turning reund upon the Government It was said that there was a loan of 1:42.000,1ien ; and he had heard it rumoured that the interest WAS to be paid by new taxes. He would not consent to raise one halfpenny more; he would not further corrode and blister the people with tax: titan, to support the scrambling systein of Minis— ters. He theref we co:felon the House to interfere, for the pro -petty of the country was - unsafe ; and he hesitated not to say that the object of the motior was to alter the present Adminis tration.—(Loud cheers.). Ile had not fished fir votes; he would do nothing of the kind ; he frankly confessed that was the object of his motion —( 'fear, hear !)—lle concluded with *roving, that tit Ilouse resolve itself into a Committee to enquire into the State of the Nation. Lonl tnstr.s: nEanri replied to Mr. Tierneylwith considera ble warinth,inaintaining that the only object of the motion was a. embarrass the Covernment and the 'louse, it being brought forward on the eve of so importar.t a motion as that reganling the Bunk. If the Right llonotable Mover really thought the Silo vemtuent wasoninposed of sirli incompetent Mentlsdiss why had lie slept un post, why bad lie not prociainnsl such opinion hethre ? Much of the Sessicn had already elapsed, important -enquiries hail proceeded, debates had ensued. but this opinion tegarding the Ministers was stated Io sleep till they tycre just about to proem( to so important a discussion as the one to which he /it.d alluded. %1 lint other motive then, could have proinoted such a motion at with a time, than what lie had pointed out. The question if I-Iranr he would not touch now, but as to the alleged disregard of :making commercial Treaties, Ito con tended that it would have been pitiful in this Country, when maintaining such high objects, to have done more than had been done. 'the motion V/ZlSsuprorud br Lords Clifton and John Rome% Messrs. Lambe, Burdett. Dickenson, tee. &c. and opposed by Mews. Martin, %Vtun. 3laberley, Rankes, ke. atter which Mr. Ticrnty rc p litd at eatreme length, and the gallery was then cleared fora division-,Ayes. 178.—Noes, 337.—Majority for Ministers, 179. Adjourned at 2 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19. The House was summoned to the House of Peers to hear file Royal Assent given to sundry public and private Bills.— See Lords.l Mr. HALL, presented an Account of all Briefs issued from the Cl.urch and Fire t:fl'.ce, for thc n. air of calamities by fire. Mr. Lirryt.Eirox presented a Petition from Attorneys of London and Wtstmir.ster, against improper persons acting as Convey auccrs.—Read and ordered Italie on the table. THE NATIONAL REGISTER LONDON CLERGY' BILL.—Mr. Alderman WOOD nioved, that the order for priraing certain Property Tax Papers, required by Sir J. Graham. in illustration of his London Clergy Bill, be discharged, the blouse -having refused to refer such Papers to a Committee on the Bill. Ile was constant in his attendance in that House, and he declared that he had neither heard the papers mowed fer, nor the proposition that they should be printed. Sir. S. lain/111AM had no objection to the motion. Order for printing the Papers discharged. P4:1011 HATES AIISAPPLICATION.—Mr. lennan Wool) presented a Petition from persons of the Jewish Persuasion, against the Poor Rates Misappliration Rill. No class of persons contributed so largely to the mairrenanev of their pour as the Jewish nation, arid they therefore prayed to be exempted from the provisions of this Bill. Mr. ‘Vitirstrouct: presented a Petition from Bary St. Edmunds. against Lotteries. T! I lon. Member at the same time ge.ve notice. that, an this day fortnight, he should roll the ai.teraitm of tit.. House to the cri - e ot't in. Boyd. B.sxx Pas - moneTs.—Mr. PEEL hid upon the table the resolutions, which he intended to move on Monday next, as the Chuitman of the Bank Itestrietione Committee; but he begged to say that he should not move them merely its Chairman, for as an individual, lie was convinced that they !imposed the beta course, that under existing ci r cum s t ances could - be pursued.— (Hear. ) _ - , CON VETA WA'F.RS.-31r. LYTTLETom moved that the Ilou'e go "into a Committee on the Stamp Acts, so far as they regarded certificated Convey sacers.—Agreed to. Mr. I.vrirtnicow, in the Committee, said it was not the object of the Bill, which he hoped he Should be instructed to bring in, to have any retrospective operation ; nor to incapacitate stewards to draw conveyances, &c. for the parties or - inlaying them, nor to prevent people from acting gratuitously, or drawing wills. When it was recollected what ass the duration of an attorney's articles, and what was the eirponce of quality' ro; him self to practice, he thought the Legish.ture could never authorize so real a disproportion as rare exit d between the Attorneys and Conveyancer:. Besides Convey.mving was more profitable than common law business. lie thougia the disproportion war ranted the interference; and he moved, that the Chairman be instructed to apply for leave to bring in a bill to explain the law (44 Geo. 3. ch. 9b,) regarding the qualification of Conveyancers. Agreed to. Mr. EROODEN, the Chairman then moved fur Icate.—Leave given. The !Imre then went into a Cornrittee on the Poor Bates 31isapplication Bill.--Iteport on Friday. The Home anerwards went into a Committee on the Bankrupt Acts Amendment Bill, in which en extended desultory Louver ration took place, that occupied it till a late hour. It being dis posed of., as well as the remaining orders of the day, the House adjourned. THURSDAY. M.VY 20. COUNT OF CIIAKCERT.-Mr. M. A. TAVT,OR brought for ward his motion re,pisning the sepan.tion of Bankrupt liminc:s from the Great Seal. He was prepared to prove that ruin was the result of the Court's delay ; Bondi s had been undone by it; and he was ready to whew these facts in a Committee. The ap pointment of a Vice Chancellor had exit ufibrdcd the desired relief, as the revulsion of appeals had defeated the expected advantage. He should conclude with cloying, that the Ilotoe resolve itself into a Committee on the 13th of Elisabeth, ch. 7, which placed bankrupt questiora under the jurisdiction of the Guilt Seal. 3.lr.t.SlNct.sta iieconded the motion, as the desired separation wouldaftbril the Lord Chancellor more opportunity to attend to appeal cases from Scotland, &c. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL observed, that the Vice Chancel lor had essentially relieved the Lord Chancellor. 'The Bankrupt Petitions had been disposed of so rapidly, that all die causes now to be heard had been set down since the beginning of last Term. 'Wherefore, then, was the cause tin a new Court ? Wades the appeals in the l.ords had been more attended to, for his Lordship was now enabled to attend to appeals three days in the wet k. this were not the fact, a Judge would not have sufficient to do in attending to Bankrupt petitions a10ne...; to make such an appoint ment would not be doing enough. Ile also contended, that the Scotch Jury Court would relieve the Lords from appeals. In conelmion, lie maintained, that a case for a Committee was not nude out. 51r. 51. A. TAYLOR replied, and the gallery was cleated a division. Tlw numbers were, 49 Arcs, 77 Noes; Majority against the motion, 2s. COAL DuT IT. SUMNER then rose to bring forward his motion regarding the Duties, contending that such du ties were of an unequal stature, and of nualern date. He went into detail of some of the Acts of Henry die Eighth, Charles the Second, /sc. imposing duties on coals, which then became a source of Crown Revenue. Besides these slut;es there was an export duty of Is. 6d. and for London there was a duty of 4d. metage, and further of 3d. for the Orphans' Fund. The whole amount was 12S. HAL per chaldron. What went to the Orphans Fund he should not chink of disturbing now, because the pee duce of this pun th a n of the duty was pledged for years to come; he only desired the repeal of what etnutitatol the public revenue; and he thought the application regarding as article of such ne cessity was correct. Ile concluded with moving forleave to bring in a Rill to take otf the London Port Coal Duties, nr d to equalize the remaining duties in the various parts of the killgdOM. SO that the Revenue might not suffir. After tat extended discussion, in the CORSAe of which it was strongly contended, that however fair it might be to remove the oppressive duties from Middlesex and the ociAlibouring Counties, It was unjust to accomplish that by increasing the burdens of others. The I louse divided, Aycs 49, Noes 151: the motion was con somently lost. l.ord Ato non r obtained leave and brought in his fl for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England. It was read a first time, and ordered to by read a second time to-morrow sennight. After some futther conversation hews was given. The 'loose resumed, and the other orders of the day basing been slisp thw el of, adjounted at one o'clock. rmio.tv. V4Y 21. CA TIIOI.PC C1.11M,.. A Nleintier,;hore. mime we rinfil not le.irnAgave wilier, that sin IVerthesday next he slliaila ill.l.+lt a nuit,on regarding the Petitio agauat the Unman Cathnile PUBLICA NiM LICCAI,ING Hi GASCOYNE pre sented u Petition him the Hite=riocs of Liverpool ag.,irst the Liceloing, Bill —Oidtred to lie on the table. Cenrral I ; AMA/UNE remarked, r.ecing the Member for Shiroshory Nlr. Pcsineti), that he did not object to the Inauriple of the hill ; hut, ns it aas tonal in such caws to introdut e eel lain protecting ;Wiwi, he rave rotice, that to the event of the Bill going to it Committee, be should there Haute ID iulrodlKC rurh elausca• CIIARITAMLR IN IITUTIOtE. Lnrd CARTLERE Gu brought forward his Mot' for lea%r tu bring in a liill 1.1 amen d an d ~,tag te Inc powers of the Conimissioucrs for en. quiroig inlu the Public Charities. to emend enquiries to other Instil ulions ihan ilsoNetauchinq Mt. BROUGHAM eirenlided the minion, the object being to eg ge n d the pangs, of the Commiainner► stud the objects of their eoquiries.-14 otitto speed to. 16.3 LICE!011!<(; SYSTEM BEN ETT moved the scisined readim; of the Publicans Regulation Sir. I; 4 Wit IC lIT could not give his approbation to the 11:11, so lotig us it contained any clause requiring Maistiates to iooigo I ettCuiis for refusal of Licences. It tou.tht subject them IL actoine. and to many other inconveniences. He moved ;IS an umendineut, Ih.et it be read a second time this etly six moctlis. Mr. Craw cm thought there ought to he some regulation Oil this subject. as Licences kind frequently heels opposed and refused by Magistrates on questionable grounds; and he hoped, beenme all could not he got that might be debited, that the goiu, into a Committee with the BM would nut be refused. Mr. S. HOUR N Opprosed the 11111 maid unwillingly, be cause there h ere minty caves where Liveners here refused u lien the reasons could not well be assigned. LAN a never expected the Bill In be c•-isted ou the grounds that the ft sigi•trat es could not, or ought is•l In as sign reasons for refusing Licenses. Ali he could understand by this Was, th si, like Sir J. F'alstatf, th • Magio wits s huuld not give " reasows on c 1111 l pulsion ;"' but he never, beless t hmsg ht the regul•d ion was very net etsary —that Cie Magistrates oujht tube required to state in Quarter Sys sinus the reasons why Licences were refused or •ucprnreel. Mr. S. WOK tiP.Y opposed the Bill, and said its iiincfri. fiery was very imperfect. Mr. I). Gluscur deemed this Bill to be of the most de. structive tendency ; derendi d the discretionary pow cis ladged in Magistrates ; nod maintained that it had been highly use ful, and but rarely, it• ever, abused. Sir It. Wilson could not understand how any honourable man, acting as a :Magistrate, could feel difficulty in assigning reasons for his conduct hi refusing liCeal"; (h , T.r!) at all events, he trusted, Mint so niurh of the Bill iwght he allotted pa,. as would enable the experituNst tu he tied io the 1-triliPrlly-•-( War.) b.l - 1. Bat mouse thought the Jaw, as now constituted, had wisely placed a discretionary power ia the Nlaiz:otratia —that it would be didirldt to assign 1CH%011% an all occa sions ; and that the regulations of this Bill wt se not cle anable. Mr. Alderman IVOM) said he should be snrry if this Bill were Inst. Its provisions were practicable, and he telt as.nrcd tli.tt tlu•v mere useful. In Coe City of London, svlrete they had the Licensing of 80 houses, if a Licence were stopped, the parties were examined before Magis trates, and the fCil3Oll6 for refusing such Licence, were wl ttle kunst It, Fir. Bess...lT denied 'fiat there was any degradation or censure implied by the appeal proposed by the Hill. lie teas sort she Bill would be 1044111 V iisetsit, aad a just pro tection of property would he Whorled by •it ; Ho lie had ninny eases where men had been turned out of !lair homes in the n.osi cruel and wanton manlier, in coliseum nee of electioneeting matters. Where sunld be the diffieully of assigning reasons Ho the refusal if they misted i But the " LAW" of the subject was spoken of. These was a 1 . practice" existed to refuse licenses, as they were now resoled ; but lie denied that there was any law or statute warrawing it ; it was art illegal assumption of power. This was the epinion of a late Judge (Nlanstiil.l.) He said, that rile Xlagistrate might refuse a licence, but lie was bound to a eammy lie (lodated that Magistrates could nut arbitrarily dispose of and destroy the properly ' of others. He also w i.hcd to put an end to 1 e monopolies of Brewers in country towns. He hoped lie stiouhl be allowed to go into a Committee, as there the Bill might be reduced to a less ohjectiouable form. Amendment withdrawn; Bill read a second time, and ordered ►n be coaeenotted nn Friday nest. Ailjourned to Monday. 1710.11 TUESDAY NIGDTS GAZETTE. --4 - BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. 1.. B. FleChcr, Blackburn. Lancashire. manufacturer. 11.0:KRUM'S. J. Oughton, ntretend Milli, Aston, nettr Birmingham, andel Sutton Coldfiekl, Warwickshire., ausnufactun.r. S. Evans, Bristol, victualler. I. Cummings. Osborn Street, Whitechapel, brerrea. E. AI uniford, Liverpool, silversmith. Goldney, It. Midgley, llardiey. Yorkshire, worsted manufecturcr. H. A. (lurk, Berwick upon Tuectl, corn mercirint. J. Lewis, Mincing Lane, merchant. A. Biro, Beverley, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturer. W.-Lee. Dolton, Yorkshire, cloth niantiticturrr. J. Wordsworth and J. Bewley, Blackburn, Lancashire, cortott J. Powell, llolber.c. lual, and R. Powell, widow, oil and os- • lour dealers, J. DAIL Briar;f;rovo, Worcestershire, grocer. IL Langton. London, merchant. J. ('oe, St. John's Street, liven draper. J. Dickinson, Man6ftuer, dealer. J., E. C., and J. Richards, Alartin's Laati, Cannon Street, merchant.. S. n s, Rri; 4 ' el.:11114ton, Saisex. carpenter. C. 11. and .1. l'ittensor, Comer lane, wholesale button sellers. J. Swanzy, .kustintriars„ en:rrlutat. J. Ziituer, Welbeck Street, i'Avendish Square, merchant. DIVIDENVS. May T. and J. nowley, Willow Street, Banksitle, Surrey. corn mid coal inenihmts-22 ' dewin Stre e t. Crte. gate, tailor - 2i. and .1. I'. 31aany, Love Lane, A er matbury, factors—done I, W. Barnard, Lloyd's Coffee Flow a. underwriter—a, G. Tlliatkirood. Muscovy tour!, Tower Ills.. ilaar factor —s, .1. Kirkman. Wallington Breweiy, City Boat!, bp:act—ll, W. 11ndelan, Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, tea dealer. Private accounts from Bergen state, that the un. happy German Emigrants who sailed from that port were not allowed to land in America till they should be able to Nerve that they coold subsist. with. out u bun'.eir to the state. As they could not do this, they were sold, or obliged to soli their services hr auction. They were all disposed of, es. cept tai, whom nobody would hire. The second which may perhaps be still more thrfortu nate, had not arrived.