The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-02-23 00:00:00

• 11.1.11. 1 .P.Mb inc .7., tea that the imperial Parliansielt was Ws &peso& to listen to their complaints, or to tediess their wrests. Mr. D. BROWNE opposed the motion, and edlO gised the late tranquillity and loyalty of the Irish* 'people. Sir JOHN SEBRIGHT observed that having voted for the late restrictions on public meetings, he felt himself bound to say, that in so doing, he looked to meetings such as that held at Manchester. He tevermeant, however, that the rights given to She riffs should be used as they had been used In Ireland ,open this oecaaioa. The speech of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland (Mr. C. Grant), bad convinced him that the present iras of all cases that on which it was of the highest importance to appoint a committee. 6--(Hear, hear.) It might certainly hive been sup posed that ever sheriff would have had a greater de. ferenee for established usage, for public opinion, and the dignity of his ancient office, than to act in so .doubtful a manner. He should be sorry to find his . Majesty's Ministers throw any impediment in the way of the only effectual or satisfactory mode of investi gating the subject. • Mr. B. BATHURST said time late restrictre sets did not apply to Comity meetings, which stood entirely on the basis of cowmen law. The only question which the House had now to consider was, whether this was the most proper tribunal before which the inquiry amid be carried en. If the Sheriff had done wrong, what punish ment was the House to inflict on him, or had they the .saine means of examiniegeridence which were possessed itt courts of law? If theamte abothiinvolve any points of law, that was surely not the place for coming to a de cision of them. If they were to appoint a committee, this would not prevent individuals who thought them selves aggrieved from seeking their remedies against the Sheriff at the same time in the ordinary courts of justice. Now, what a strange situation would the House he placed in, if two distinct proceedings took place on the same subject of investigation 1 If that House pass ed a resolution of censure or of acquittal, it would not prevent the parties complaining from instituting legal proceedings. Mr. M. Fir:GERALD and Mr. B. BATUeRST mutually explained. Mr. J. P.MIANT said, it appeared to him that all the arguments of the right lion. lientleman proved this, if thcy proved any thing—that there was no vase where private individuals, haying remedy at law, ought to Ile allowed to come for redress to that House. If that were indeed the case, be wondered why they sat at all as a [louse of Parliament.—(hear.) Mr. EL:.iti read a passage from the petition, to show that the allegations contained in it were different from the account he •00l others gave of the transaction. 11r. ti. MARTIN contended, that the subject was not one that ought to occupy the attention of a committee. Mr. PEEL said, he could not avoid expressing his regret that resort had been had to a military force on this occasion.—(hear, hear.) Ile stated this, because as be natant to give his vote against the *notion, an inference slight be drawn from that circumstance that he thought the interfcre*lce of the military justified in the case alluded to. Ile, however, approved of the conduct of the ir:,h government in not censuring the sheriif, or even causing an inquiry to be made into iiis conduct; soul he did so on this principle—because he had always considered it most injudicious in the govern ment of Ireland to interfere at all with Ministerial °Seem Mr. C. (.RANT explained. - tale J. MACKINTOSH said i 4 hod hems ii would have been improper for the tioverntuent of Ire land to have reinoved the Sheriff from his office, even if they knew that he had •iiimwonducteml himself in it. That might, as a general principle, he trite ; but if it were rrtie, what should be said of Ministers who, without in quiry, and even without hearing(, removed from his post one of the most illustrious, virtuous, and respectable men in England—giving I • the first intimation of his dismission, too, in a way which would have been thought Lash front a private master to a menial servant, to wit , by a paragraph inserted in a Ministerial newspaper ? If ee notch respect was flue to the Sheriff of Ihtblitt, surely a little respect ought to have been shown to the illustri ous individual to whom he had alluded : and the house ought to examine into the rouse of so much rigour on the one band and so much lenity on the other : the lenity was shown to a man who rut short a proceeding likely to terminate in strictures upon the tiovernment the rigour was exercised towards one who favoured the expression of public opinion.—(llear, hear, hear.)—. It had been argued that the violation of individual right was not a wrong fur the inquiry of the House of t on:mons ; but where could a definition be found of the duties of a High Sheriff at a public meeting? Was stole redress at law for the employment of the mili tary? The military would defend themselves by pleading time command of the Sheriff. Would the Sheriff himself be answerable in a Court of Law ? Every Member in the House knew that, to convict a civil Magistrate corrupt motives must be made out. Suppose a Sheriff, a short time after any little error on the right side, to receive a lucrative employment —and there had been such an instance--wonlel that fact he enough to support an allegation of corrupt motive? It would not. In fact, to say that the House of Comm:tits was not to inquire into the wrongs committed by public officers, was to airy that, nine tilts is ten, public officers might commit wrongs with impunity. Mr. SHAW had been present at the meeting in question : and thought the conduct of the Sheriff indiscreet, but not corrupt. He objected to the in terference of the House, because a remedy was open, at common law, and because he believed that that rt. wetly was likely to be resorted to. LUrd CASTI.F.REMIH was not at all surprised at the speech of the Hon. and Learned lientleman opps the. The case of the Noble Earl (Fitxwillians), was not exactly in point, because a Lord-lieutenant was neresm:arily a confidential officer ; a Sheriff not being tpiite so closely connected with Hover:intent. For an inquiry like that now demanded there was but one precedent in the parliamentary history of England ; and that was a rase occurring not in the best times, for it occurred in time reign of Charles 11. A pro ceeding imi the Irish House of Commons bad been attempted in he set lip as a precedent ; but first he (Lord Castlereagh) denied that the House was at all bound by such it precedent ; and, next, he maintained that the circumstances of the casein Ireland were eaten daily different front those of the case before the House. The question was, conld time matter be better Investigated io the House of Commons than in a Court of Law ? He denied that it could be so; and if there was any in quiry in the house, it must be an Inquiry at the Bar, because a Committee up stairs, could not go into matters amrecting the character and even the personal liberty of the Sheriff. If the house undertook to investigate and arrange all the disputes which took place at public meetings, it *weld cut -out fur itself 'leek copious npply of work attention to all wratters of lava w Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose, sad, cries of " spoke, spoke," said he rose to call the at- tention of the House to three resolutions of the Irish Parliament. The SPEAKER suggested that it would be Isere cotnisteat with orJer for the Honourable Sleitiber to pat the resolutions which he wished to have read into the hands of the clerk. Sir JOHN NEWPORT acted upon the suggestion of the Speaker. The resolutions were read by the clerk, and went to prove that similar motions had bees sn•cessfnlly made in the Irish Parliament. Lord CASTLEIZAGH and Mr. M. FITZOZRALD ex plained. Lord BECTIVE was of opinion that, tinder all the circumstances of the case, the high sheriff of Dublin bad combatted himself with judgment and propriety. Lord W. FITZGERALD made a single observation which canoed great cheering in the !louse ; it was in audible in the gallery. Mr. CREEVEY trusted that, even in the present day, if the meetings ef the people to petition were dis turbed by 'military violence, they would have the virtue and the spirit to do themselves that justice which they hall don. themselves before under the auspices of a Russell and a eavandislt.—(Hear). After a few words from Mr. C. WYNN, Lord JOHN RI:SEEL/a replied. The gallery was then cleared, and the House divid ed, when there appeared—For the motion, 90— Against it, 124—Minority against it, 34. Mr. C. WYNN moved a resolution that it be made a stant'ing order of the !louse, that the Hunse will not proceed on a motion for an address to the Crown, pray ing that money be issued on expenses incurred, ex cept in a committee of the whole House. _ * After a few words from Mr. CACEVLy, Lord I:ASTLZ. SCAUK, and Sir JOIN NIWPORT, the resolution was agreed to. Mr. WYNN then moved that a select committee should be appointed to consider 4.f th • most etfectnal meang for expediting the introduction of painc bills into the Howie, and should be instructed to report their opinion thereon. The motion was agreed to, and a committee ap pointed, after a short conversation beta ecu Mr. BRIGUT and Lord l'AsTi.xitcAutt. On the motion of 31r. CUIItWEN, the order of the day for the second reading of the patent,' protection bill was read. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the bill, and moved that it be read a second time this day six months. After a fee• words from Mr. licsir and Mr. Dan aux, the intendment was carried, and the bill was host. SCOTCH JURY WI.. On the motion of .Ir. ENN EDI', the Scolds Jury I Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be cons- milted on the Slim of May. On the motion of 34.111:31E, there was orgiered to be laid before the House an account of the lumber of Distributors of Stamps in Ireland, with their names and districts, the amount of their emoluments, and also the amount of the balances in their hawk. arrears tar by them vat time 7th of J.snsr.try, 11,2 1 1 (we believe). Also an account of the number of Recrivers-bleneral in England and Scotland, with a return of their profits and emoluments in the years Its 19 and lti4o; of the balances in their hands on the 511 m of October in those years, and the arrears due from them in the January fol low ing. Also an account of she details of 7,0001. expended under the head of rent in the Ordnance Stores in Ireland. Also an account of the purchase of land fur the pow der manufactories at llallineullig, in Ireland, with the number of acres so purchased. The other orders of the day were then disposed of. and the !louse adjourned at twelve o'clock. er siskseiti_ Itg the illestrloste army Of obseitatips, It is eery . 0 of this deiciiption will be fon the southern frontier, hetiehn Bayonne and P.. the other in the neighbourbdosl of Lyons and Oven.._ The experiment of placing Viesch Legions so near the eontagtoa of freedom, will be rather dangerous ; bet the dye Is cast, and there seems to he no chance of avoiding tke tremendous struggle into which the Sovereigns of the north have harried with that "distempered rigour ' and insane alacrity" so peculiar to lien, beat on their owe ruin. Letters from Madrid up to the Sth, represeat that Ca pital its perfectly tranquil. The firmness and moderation of the people, national militia and regular troops, have sonnoanted every obstacle, put down the factious, and given new rigour to the Constitutional system. The plan of conspiracy discovered in the early part of the present month was feeble and sanguinary. A, hundred armed men were to rush into the city. attack the What bitants, and plunder some of the most oilskin berets. 18 oldie traitors are in prison ; they belong 10 the 111 1 11 4 wretched class of society, poor creatures; apse whore p rerty and crednlity the priesthood and gramitee have worked i thefirgt by threats of exco ttttt nieatiott,the second by a premise to enrich them at the expose's( the lives and properties of the citizens. As may reedit: imp posed, the ultra royalist jonrnals of 'Paris NM iorth the most absurd and exaggeraled of the dispute caused by those of the Way attack ed the defenceless people, anti as in a ease nearer hews drew their sabres without the smallest cause. it is ex tremely fortirnate for the sense of liberty in Europe. that these accounts are not trite. Excepting those mis led and merrenary individuals who provoked thesopu lace on the above occasion, nothing can ex ceed the loyalty and resolution displayed by all ranks. I regret that want of time prevents me from detailing the heroic manner in which the troops and people assembled to the sound of their patriotic songs, which have become the ral lying word throughout the Peninsula. It was those songs which animated the army of La Isla to persevere In their triumphant struggle; and to .pe.tk in the law gunge of a 'Madrid Editor, w h ile they are sung, the country of Reign, ofQuirnga, anil of Loiwx Itataos,will oat, cannot return to wear the chains of despotism, nor wit ness the fires of the Inquisition! I have e.:ly heard of one death during the late tumult, this was that of a man who, for crying l'era rweatite tie"! was poignariled on the spot by a villain who coolly *aid tothose aronnol another will he respon sible for what I have done!" ose on Apia', In the House of Lords last night, the Margolis of LANA DOWN & rave notice of a motion he should make on Tuesday next, respecting Naples, the object of which would he, not to convey any censure upon his MAJERTICS Ministers, 110 T indeed to make env re ference to what hail passed, hut to express prospec tively his earnest hope that every effort would be employed to prevent the recurrence and avert a con summation of a case so contrary to the fundamental laws and constitution of this country, to the true Wig of Europe, and the general happiness of man kind. Where the character and system of the Minis ters are not immediately involve", the rights of men and nations have as fair a chance of being recognized in Parliament, as in other assemblies of enlightened persons. Mr. WILOKRIFORCE, Mr. Sit ‘IIT MORTLZt, Mr. J. WARD, and others, who usually support Administration, spoke as vehemently as any against the tyranny and aggression of Austria, in her interference with Naples, though they did not think it expedient to fit limit. yam harmonise arta tittir speeches. Not one Member, however, with all their bias towards Ministers, could be induced to go so far as to de fend the abominable attack upon Naples. All that Lord Ceti rLaason eamld say in behalf of his High Allies, was that the Carbotiari, who were at the bottom of the Neapolitan Revolution, were spread over Italy and Germany, and that the Emperor of Arsvnts was in consequence afraid of some convulsion in his Italian States. lint if it be the fault of the Carbonari to be hostile to despotic rule, and the principles of, popular Government be a plea fur the invasion of nations, then trite Government of Britain, so far aw popular principles prevail in it, must be detest able to time rulers of the Coutinent, and we are indebted only to our insular position that we are exempt from their inroads. We are therefore glad to hail that these principles are still supported in a British Parliament, and hope that the assertions of them will have no small effect in avert ing the danger with which Naples is menaced. Another English ptinciple was also advocated last night in the House of Commons, on the interference of the military at the Dublin County Meeting : but the motion founded nn it experienced time fate el MMIV other liberal efforts, and was negatii col by a majority of 121 to 90. Letters direct from Madrid, to the sth represent, that the place in that Capital, ire without foundation ; a Mi nisterial Fmk paper, however, gives the following account of the state of Spain : lacs, Jet.v It—Letters from Madrid of the 10th, state that the Capital was still in great agitation. The Municipality sent several deputations to the permanent sittings of the tortes, the object of which was not known. The suppression of the Iludy tinird will he the first measure of the Cortes. A column of troops has set off from Corogne to disperse a body of 'nal-con tents in the environs of lit )rrnce. The affair of the Republican Mendealdua, at Malaga, has taken a very serious turn. Two persons have been arrested at Antigua, for having taken a part in the Plot in the South of Spain. The town of Pampeluna is still in great agitation. Beaus, Fan. 7.—A few days ago five Frenchmen arrived here from 4ussia. They had been made pri soners in 1.112, and had been far in the interior of the country. They were ...ell clothed, and the French Ambassador here provided them with money to carry them into their own country. Oen. Frimont has recently issued an address to his Army :—He, no doubt, thinks it necessary that some such mocking should precede the aggressions of the unholy leaguers. He says " thearasy, passes over theme. fines of the country with the intentions of peace. We do not, as in the year 1815, advance against a rash enemy Every inhabitant of the kingdom of Naples that is faith fill and well-intentioned will he our friend. Whether the army .!tall paps through the peaceful states of Italy, or shall place their feet on the Neapolitan territory, my constant rare shall be directed that they may preserve the same discipline am! love of order whirls they ail/tired betteen the years 1815 and 1817, in the Mile conntrieN they are now shout to enter. None but the enemies to tbe tranquillity of their fellow-citizens, none bra rebels to the mailmen of :, their king, can he Irg o.oa to as. Should they even succeed in induein:, res nee to us by others, they will ,still fail to withdraw us from 'the ens Wary pity which as been prescribed to se;" he. tic. .• • Tab Ig41140111414; A' • - as mast phtliste Its is Mai siajf I tame. Tasseisiag SW ie, sod. amidst loud !bal_twe2_77! PRICK OF STOCKS THIS , Bank Stock titil if 7 3 per Cent. Red. 73f 4 $j 4 S per Cont.C. , n. Sf per Cent, 534 • per Cents. 91f 9 prCt. Navy MI 7 Of 7 33 per Cent. Loag Ann. 19 1-16 k lop. 3 per Cent. 711 i et t &tattOtnan. " TMI IRITIsU ITATESIIAV' • IS I%COMI•ORALED WITIS TUB {TATCSMAY. • ' LONDON: FRIDAY EtF.NING, lERIMARV 23, IS2I. STOCK-F:NCILINGE, One °TIN*. Consols for the Amount are now 7:14 j, And have been for the Account in April buyer. , at 71: the market is now rather steady, but the opinion srrnus to be still fur the rise. Our private atlyices from Paris represent as certain the passage of the Po, by a considerable portion of the Austrian army. The Paris papers afford nu elucidation of the matter. They contain no infor mation of interest. FRIN cm Ft los (Tuesday).—Fire per Cents. bsf. 55e. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE INtri4. Feb. 19. It is confidently reported, that a most important and spirited note has been addressed to the French Govern ment, by the Cabinet of Madrid, not only relative to the policy of the former towards Spain, but requiring ex planations on its intentions with regard to the approach ing struggle between the Holy .4lliance and Naples. There seems to be no longer a doubt of the Ministers of Louis NVIII. haviug most effectually lent themselves to the new armament of the Sovereigns against the people. Large sums of money have been drawn from the pockets of the nation, sonic ear to subsidize Austria, others to provide an army of ofiservation ; while a third party maintains, that it is intended to reimburse the English Government for the enormous expenses incurred by the; Emperor Napoleon's imprisonment. There 1111111 V be a deal of truth in all these reports ; the letter of t Louis to his good brother of Naples, is, by no means, an equivocal indication of Ids most Christian 31ajesty's s entimehts; the recruiting of the army goes on with activity; anti, in a conversation between Mr. Tierney sod fit &Cates, held nut mane weeks ago, the first is said to have hinted to the second, that, in the event of the Whip coming into power, they would nut showof'. Shilling of the public money of England to be expended DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Irish 6 per rent. India Stock 2314 30 301 Ditto Mond, 41s. 4114. Smith-Men Mork If Eit.lllllll4ll. Ss. 34. Ss. pm. Osmium for Slotiry pm Bonk for Arcs - runt Con. 'or Acct 73 [lli Lott. Tickets ?N. 10s. Drifigy.- 41 to ft opt heirinald- 7 ,11 to 1 apt Gustav's— le to I apt P..N'tnr. Nttt My 14Itly-9 to I apt Spring*, Itioutswoont.—% `../ I ora ktltiatati f Dosi-Arrto Lrci •.-0 to I opt Jack Spigot—ls to I apt Cblivell. am....._""MINETE. • OLD titkkr.—(r mnautx...) ries Johrsoa aka MM. Cooper st',.er indieted for stealing nine yards of baiir, the properiNtf James ()Wen. It wet fodnd to be the property of Mr. Omen of Fleat-inatiter. It appeared the praseentot was the person who last week was eonvirted of rubbing leis late empldyer, Mr. Clarke Stuart, the prisoners wore, in conse.ittetice, ac nditted. Ifhomoir erostke Was indicted fur stealing sit shrubs frdtts the nursery geonmis•of Mr. Watts; of Acton. The pritoner was fumed—neilty. Thomas Hooker, an active officer of Bow-street, knew the prisober As art amateur in those kind of ar. ticles, and stated that Corent•tiartien was indebted :o him every Market day for a ettpply of them. In Ilk case of the Ilriene lianr, upon 51ar*Jen the nadltlf, the Judge, have derided that it is not a Cletgyabte dlfetice, and therefore sentence of skath will be lasted tin thigh TII-Merrotriliorising. SHOCKIXO aND MAL EVENTS IN lIIGII Li rs. ender this head ire gave ou Wednesday a statemert, from a Morning paper, of cirentustauces that ittvolved ill deep affliction two families of the highest conSetptence. These circumstantes, however, though sufficiently ill , plorable of themselves,. appear to he exaggerated; net! we yesterday presented from the same mown. as the tie.;, a correction of tlw original account. Upon this subject Me Alvrt•iag ehromfrl., which bad yesterday no aernple to mention the name of Henry ilireey Alums, Fn. as connected with the melam•linly affair, takes °evasion from more authentic information, to correct in a most material point, the statemeta whirls it had given, and which wns not very dilfeteat from the one we haul inserted, excepting that we had omitted the gentleman's name. , " It is true," states this paper, " that Mr. Aston having been resptired to desist front his visits at the lonise, prevailed on the voting lady to elope with him, hot they were pivoted by the lady 's mother, accompanied liv a younger dattOater, and osr!- taken within a few hours aftrt leaving 1;14w. Thee o nt. ; t: lady instantly retttrued with her mother, and there is not the slightest suspicion of any previous miscontin, the Noble Family hying cnnvincesl of her innewenee. Exaggerated accounts of this inelatwholy affair lin% in: t appeared in other papers, it is hoped that the lalitor will feel the ditty of rorreeting the statement." The paper from which we hail taken our first arconnt states to day, that variou; statements on the t ;lie continued to he received at the suffice, and that the tsso following had been left there yesterday TIIE Si R.—The report in roar Paper of this day, of a t•onn fr English glentlentan having come to an untimely rust .st Genoa, in the house of a Nobleman of his oar centaur . % is incorrect ; as appear. from the following extract ut letter from a lientlentio at (Jennie:— " Having heard that Mr. flied here suddenly, amyl of cert ain reports which prevailed, I resptemed loysiriall who attoodo any . famtly would he gresetst the inspection of his remain.; and he convors wills II other Medical lientlemen in opinion, that his death was occasioned by Apoplexy." ' February it, WI, TO THE EDITOR. Stn-1n your Paper of this slay, in which the mph: , choly deaths of a tientleman is mentioned, made to the family of a Noble Lord, as connecte4 wit. that event. I have to inform you au good itnillue); . that the facts detailed are whol!y untrue with the sioy exception of the death of the Ilentirman. You o.e therefore requested to correct the nsi.s.stattniont ; In a rase of such peculiar delicacy, it is hoped that 11 , further mention ofthis melancholy . affair will he tussle is: the Public Papery till the reel filets of the case are tainesl—faets which gill he found compatible oith the "remit !0" of all the parties alluded to. February 22, 1821. - - In addition to.the above we subjoin the followin7 statement from another dlorning Paper of to-day. an.! which is given as having been just received in a Letter, from the En4isli Consul at Genoa, to 4 relative of the unfortunate Gentleman. British Consulate, Genoa, Feb. 9, IM2I. " Mr. Aston came to reside in this City in doers: last ; and on Sunday the 2.Stli of January, he prevail,' upon a young Lady, in whose family he had been a. , inmate since his arrival here, to elope with him. The mother ruined and overtook them at Alexandria, aict prevailed •n them to return with her to Onion, Owl — they arrived on Monday night at ten o'clock. He brio extremely ill, every medical assistance was ca1!...1 in; hut lam sorry to say witlioat effect, as be expired a. twelve o'clock on Tuesday night. The deceased havinc declared it was his wish tha: his body should be sent tsi Paigland ; it has been embalmed, sealed up in lead. ass,! is deposited in the house of the Protestant t at Carignani, waiting orders to M . Hibbs and C.,. his bankers, in what manner it is to be conveveil home. From the certificates of the Physicians awl Surgeons that attended him, and superintended the opening hi, body, (which are in ..tity lie/session.) it appears that hi 'lied of apoplexy. I - thought it proper from. variou reports that were in circulation, to desire the physician who atteuds my family to be present with the other medi cal men, and to report Isis opiniou to me, in which he concurs wills them. .• My Vice Consul has placed my seal of office upon Mr. Aston's effects. " I have the honour to be, Your very obedient hismhle servant (Signed) '‘ J. ST I KLI Letters from Copenhagen state, that on the anni versary of the Icing's birth, a patrol of hussars, err neously conceiving that a body of Stadrnts, who were traversing the streets, were uttering seditious cries, dispersed them at the point of the swei4l, when four of them were womided. The mistake arose from the Students exclaiming, in Latin, " lies !" which the hussars were not scholars enough to understand. It is reported in a Preach Paper, that the late rumour of a Commercial Treaty being on font be tween Ragland and Pran-ze was unfounded, and that there was no iiitentiou whatever of altering the commercial relatious between the two countries. Coax Excisemen, JoLv 21—There has been bat :;ttk Wheat fresh in since Jilonday, and partictilarly of tine quality, which description met rather free bale this morn ing, in full as Rod terms as on Monday, but the inferior samples were dull saw. Fine Maltin Barley was in brisk &stand. and fag as sitar as ou Moeda! ; tend the ordinary goallities sohl niotelterly than on West"--' The Oat Trask was !rather . Flue dad Beau and Peas Tally support W • "ok • '" r - smarricti AT TATTNUIALLII: rat Oft 04 n• 4 +4p, Fine frtik• Coif' 'etlngsJay's prices. •• I I Le. IT re-