The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-06-06 00:00:00

• • • i:.': • ~. ; 1 i I. ' .• `: 1 }. ; THE STAITSMAN. The Duty on Ships' Act Bill went through the Committee.— Report to morrow. The Inch Stamp Duty Bill wag passed. The Irish Stamp License Bill went through the Committee. Oa the motion for the third reading of the Scotch Game BAN, a conversation took place between Sir G. Clerk. Mr. W. Don. 4as, Mr. J. P. Grant. Mr. Lockhart, Sir G. Wurrender, Mr. Horner, Sir C. Mnnck, Mr. Abercrombie, Led Binning, Mr. 'erjeaat Hest, &c. which terminated by the Bill being with drawn. Mr. WHITBREAD''' motion respecting Colonel Gore was poi 'coed at the instance of Mr. Goo%urn. Mr. BENNETT presented a Petition from certain Warrant Officers of Ilse Navy (gusioeis, carpenters, and boatmen), pray ing for increase of pa y. On Sir S. ROM ILLY's motion, the papers respecting Gover nor Ainslie, were ordered to he primed. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. WILBERFOR.CF.. after adverting to the feelings entertained by the King of France in favour of the abolition of the Slave Trade, wished to know whether the Noble Lord opposite intended in any future arrangement to press this subject. It had been said that pressing it on a Gilmer occasion might hate been injurious to the Ronal cause in the sea- Purttof France, but affairs were now much altered in thatatiew of the case. Lord CILVILEREAGII said, no exertion should he %noting to carry into execution the wishes.of Par liament, which had been so distinctly pronounced. 'the question was .at present strengthened by circum stances. Government had not neglected it. Corn manications had been made on the subject, and he bail sant/eine hopes of the desired result. The County Bridge Bill went through the Commit tee. Report on Friday. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The Report was brought up, and on putting the ea reading of the resolutions, Lord JOHN RUSSELL made some observations on the war now commencing, on the right and policy of which he should not particularly dwell. It was stated that the 'treaty of Paris was to be maintained : bet how, under the circumstances, was that to be done? That treaty was a separate matter from Bona perte's abdication. He could not see our right to insist on the restoration of the Bourbons, thut the French might receive the advantages of that treaty. We might withdraw the advantages of (het treaty, while we had no right to say that such or such a per boll should govern that kingdom. Ambition was not unknown to the Bourbons, and the most faithless of attacks was that made even under Louis XVI. in the Americnn war. It appeared as if we disclaimed the principle of forcing a Sovereign on France, lest we should alarm the friends of freedom in this country. Mr. J. P. GRANT objected to the resolutions, and the measure which occasioned them. When it WS proposed to sanction the war, no views of the means we possessed for carrying it on were laid be fore Parliament ; which he thought necessary as the foundation of such a measure, whether it were one of justice or expediency. Unless this war was to be much less expensive than the last, the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not look at it with coolness and indifference. With 9.4 millions of war taxes, we might have a deficit of 45 millions. Let it he ex plained, how we were to go on. If he (Mr. G.) was wrong, her would be set right .with pleasure. Nothing he had heard in the discussions had changed his opinion of the impolicy of this war ; neither by elm:pence, nor by the technical justice of it, de duced from Bonaparte's non-fulfilment of a treaty, for which no security was taken. and which none could believe he would abide by, if his interest led the other way, had a justifiable case been made out in hi-. mind. The only argoment that could be used, was, that it wa rs,ential to our safety that Ilona parte should be flepcsed. It wa. 'lie first time in the world that war was made for such an object. it was the fir.s time that it was said iii Ce.t House, that the character of any i n dividual was gi' mid for a war l'or our own safety, which must depend upon cur own 'exertions. Mr. BENNETT had some remurlot to make on the investiture of Ferdinand of S.paiii with the Order of the Garter. Ile did not mean to enter into his private character, nor his public conduct since lie wes restored to the throne ; nor on his correspond 'nice congratulating Bonaparte on the success of his yips, and begging to be married to one of his family ; Tear on his congratulation of Joseph Bonaparte when Fri railed himself King of Spain : but what had been Ferdinand's conduct to this colliery ? Ile made a treaty before the revolution in Spain with Bonaparte, complying with his maritime view, and adopting the principles in an article of the Treaty of Utrecht. The Cortes did not sanction this: but when Ferdinand returned, his first step was to destroy the Cortes. We who had treated with the Corte'', had been silent spectators of all Ferdinand's measures of oppression, torture, and death. lie wished to know what Mini ster had advised the giving of the Order of the Gar ter to Ferdinand ; a transaction which he thought a great disgrace to our name, and character, and a prostitution of that high honour, unexampled. Who "had inflicted this Wound on oar honour ? Sir JOHN NEWPORT censured what he con ceived a very expensive and negligent system of re cruiting for the militia, by suffering the men after enlistment to sretarn borne. Lord PALMERSTONotated, that the whole of the bounty was not paid till the men joined their re giments. Mr. GORDON enquired whether any steps had yet been taken, for more effeettrilly controlling the expenditure of the Commissariat. The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQU ER said, the attention of the Treasury had beets closely di- rected to the consideration of this subject. The de. i fects of the system in Spain had been in a great mea sure owing to the want of resources in that country, I by which it became necessary to disprse subordinate office's in that department of the public service to remote points, and without any efficient controul. The Low Countries mind the frontiers of France, which were now to become the scene of military ope rations, were of an entirely different character, and would furnish much greater facilities to a Commis sariat. Mr. BARING was happy to learn that the s•th .. Jed had engaged the attention of the Treasury. He had often complained of the Commissariat system in the Peninsula as radically wrong, and he •thought Government at home deeply responsible for its de fects. If Spain was so low in resources, why had we put oat so math paper in that country ? We Lad paid our debts to the ignorant mountaineers of Gallicia and Asturias ; iu notes of v hich they did not receive above one-third of the value. The exchanges, he was sorry to observe, were already against us, but he trusted it was not true th a the Commissariat were purchasing guineas at their market price In this country. The CHANCELLOR of the gXC EQUER had not heard of any such proceeding► Sir J. NEWPORT made some objections to the gyve's' of billPting soldiers in Ireland. Lord PA LNIERTSON and Mr. PEEL were dia. posed, as w ell as the lion. Baronet, to assimilate the system to the practice in this country. Mr. GRENFELL wished to know whether the real value was now given for light guineas by the agents of Government. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied in the negative. Mr. HORNER wished for the repeal of all those laws which rendered it penal for en individual to do that which Government often found it not only con. venient but necessary tw do. Nothing was more common than to make coin of a foreign denomination, and he had no sort of doubt that guineas were every week melted down, for the purpose of being convert ed into louis d'ors. After a few words from Mr. BARING, the Re. solutions were agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be brought in accordingly. Slit EDWARD PAKENHANI. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in rising to propose that a Monument should be erected to the memory of the late Sir Edward Pnk , mham, assured the House that whatever delay had taken place in proposing the pre-' sent vote, it was to he attributed only to an anxiety not to infringe those rules by which the proceedings of Parliament in cases of this nature had hitherto been guided. The general principle had been to connect with records and tributes of this nature something of a successful issue to the occasion on which the individual had fallen, or hud acquired dis tinction. There were, however, he had discovered, exceptions to this rule, and he was far from thinking that the present instance was not one in which the exception ought to be- allowed. Monuments had sometimes been voted where Parliament had not pre viously expressed their approbation by a Vote of Thanks ; and if this had ever occurred, he could con. ceive no reason why that honour should not be de creed to a soldier, distinguished on so many memor. able occasions, and w hose whole but short active career had been passed in the highest schools of his profession. He was generally admitted to be not only a good disciplinarian end an exact regimental officer, but to possess all those endowments of mind which are essential to the more important duties of command. After having acquired great reputation in the West Indies, where he was twice wounded, he applied to be sent to the Peninsula, though in very I bad health, where, froth the period of the battle of Talavera, he rendered the most important services to his country.—[ Hear', hear !]—He should afterwards ; have the honour of moving a similar Resolution with respect to Generals Gibbs and Gillespie.—[llcur, hear !]=ln the mean time he should move, " That na humble Address he presented to his Royal High. n-s 4 MO lte womse Le ple..w•d to A we J 40111013 for the erec tion art Monument lui he Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Is the memory of ()white Mnjor-rieuerui hie F.tiwisrd P;akenhmn. Gen. GASCOIGN F. stated sonu: anecdotes of the bravery displayed by Gen. Pakettham is the action in whit h he lost his life. Mr. WYN N E wished to refer to the Thanks which had at differelt times been voted by that House to tyi Hata 11,t,r(1 CASTLERFAGH stated, that he had seven times receivtd the Thanks of that House. Tile motion was then put, and agreed to. The Irish Population Act was then read a second time, and committed. THAMES POLICE ACT. Mr. WYNNE, oo moving the second reading of the Bill for Repealing one of the Clauses of this Act, could not avoid noticing the manner in which such Clauses were often introduced. Here was a Bill prefessedly to prevent depredations on the River Thames, brought in immediately at the close of the !Session, and there was a Clause in it (which nobody could have suspected) for preventing bathing in the ; River. Considering the heat of the weather, we should not he surprised at seeing boys every day bathing in the Thames, in those places where boys have bathed, time out of mind. Mr. BATHURST thought, that it would be bet j ter to amend than to repeal the Clause. He' wished • that the measure might stand over for a few days, on account of the absence of some of his lion. Friends. There were no doubt but that the indecent exposure of the person, whether under pretence of bathing or not, was a misdemeanour 'punishable at common law. The Act, however, affised a limited penally of 20s. to an offence, which if prosecuted at common law, would be punished much more severely. Mr. IVILBERFORCE observed, that it was an intolerable nuisance to those who had houses near the river, or to thriae who in following their lawful business were obliged to be in that neighbour hood to witness the indecent exposure of nakedness, , that was constantly exhibited There. He conceived that the Magistrates had power to check this lode (cency without any particular Act. Mr. HORNER had no doubt 'that the indecent exposure of the person, whether under pretence of bathing or pot, was an offence under the common law. He thought it, therefore, unnecessary to have a new Act about it; and AS In leaving the sup ! pression of it to the discretion of the Magistrates, he thought that would be the worst possible mode of proceeding. This agreeable and healthful exercise ! ' of the youth of the metropolis might be then sus pendecl, by the puritanical feelings of certain Ma oistritts. This practice of bathing in the river Thames was almost as ancient as the city of London itself; and that which (Lid not shock our ancestors in the limes of Queen Elisabeth and Queen Anne, might perhaps be tolerated in our days. Until the building of Westminster-bridge, the Archbishop of Canter bury nrver went to Parliament without crossing the river, and being obliged to witness that which had now given so much offence. He, however, had not heard that the religious and moral feelings of the many Reverend. Prelates who had filled that seat were at any former time so touch shocked as to com plain of this indeeent'y. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought it would be eh surd to legislate ) particularly about bathitig in the Thames, without taking notice of the rivers that run through other cities and large towns of the king dom. Mr. WROTTESLEY thought that the clause might to be repelled, as it had been introduced with out any notice. Mr. PRESTON thought that the House would be more nice than wise, if they were to legislate on such a subject. Mr. WILBERFORCE, in reply to an observa tion ofan Honourable Baronet (Sir J. Newport); ob served, that the Thames was a river which naturally invited people to bathe ; whereas, he understood that the Liffey, at Dublin, was not quite so pellucid or tempting.—[4 laugh.] The Bill WAS then read a second time, and com mitted for Thursday. Mr. BATII utt.4l. moved that there cliould he an instruction to the Committee, givitt; them power to amend the said Act. This motion produced a long conversation, in which k was contended, on the one side, that the clause should be entirely repealed, and, on the other, that it would be sufficient to have it atrettiled. The House Far Mr. Bathur,t's motion :11 AgainA it 15 Majority The East India Postage Letter Bill, after some observations from Mr. FAWCETT and the CHAN CELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER, went through Committee, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived on Thursday. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the House went into a further con sideration of the Chapel Exemption Bill. The Right Hon. Gent. said, it had been proposed that one seat in tattlivall chapels to be built in future should be allotted to the poor; but he moved as an amendment that one seat in five should be reserved for that de scription of persons. General THORNTON wished, in the first place, to oppose the amendment, and then to throw out the Bill altogether. The SPEAKER then put the question, that the Bill, with its amendments, should be engrossed. Gen. THORNTON lamented, that some Gentle men of great abilities, who intended to oppose the third reading of the Bill, were not then present ; but as he had intimated his intention of opposing it in every stage, he would then declare, that it seemed of a dangerous and alarming nature. It called on the Members of the Established Church to support the Dissenters, and exempt certain places for the gi atui tons instruction of the poor, where no religious in struction whateier was given. A Right Reverend Prelate (the Bishop of London) had recently preach ed a sermon before the Society for Promoting Chris tian Knowledge, wherein he maintained, among other points, that we thoulttioard at;nittst all the metleits doctrines of liberality sod toleration, and that irt'ilference of f‘nons of faith was ititiiti'vrence to truth' and falsehood. The Honourable General, thereN r, sincerely embracing these opinions, moved that the Bill should be engrossed on that day three moeo;s. Tilig amendment was pest and negatived, and the °rightist question serried. Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up an Recount of Exchequer Bills under the 51th of the King, which was ordered to be printed. • Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Ship Letter Bill, which was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. GORDON observed, that there were several important matters remaining for discussion, and among them the Post-Office Bill ; but as the House was then so thin, he hoped the Hight Honourable Gentleman would consent to the postponement of that subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER+ 'nisi no objection to defer it till to-morrow, which was agreed to. General TtiolorroN rose, pursuant to his no tice, to move for a return of the several Parishes in the bills of mortality, and of such churches, chapels, or ether places therein, as were dedicated to the in struction of the poor, with the present state of the gatroaltial rates. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER consented to the motion, but said, that the account could not he made up so readily as the Hon. Gene ral expected. 'The other orders of the,day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. MAIMIAGE IN HIGH lave.—On Thursday even ing was married, by spechi licence, at the house of the, Earl of BRAENALBANE. in Park-late, Jolla! THARP, Esq. of Chippenham-.'ark, in the county of Cambridge, to the Right lion. Lath' H ar:NAR CIIARLOTTE HAY, third daughter of the late Gr..oaca Marquis of Tw cynna tr. The bride was given assay by tier uncle the Earl of L It; nERDALE ; a numerous assemblage of the 'robin relatives, on both sides, partook of a splendid entertainment on the happy occasion. Four silver coins were found last week concealed An the cleft of an oak beam, over the shop-nindow iftf a confectioner in Shoemaker-row, Chester; one of them is of the reign of Edward 111. and the three others of that of Henry IV. They are nil in fine preservation, and are now in the possession of the printer of the Chester Paper. It was thought, be fore this discovery, that, though the city k of very great antiquity, no house was now stnnding in it of more than 250 years old ; bat the one in which the above coins were found, must have been built at least 500 years ago. flue sale And the value of estates near lawn, seem to feel the fluctuation and the depression of the times. For the houceand grounds of the late Mr. GoLnAmin, at Morden, but 4,0001. have been hitherto dffered, and lIJ purchasers have shown them selves for the estate of Lord Ncr.sox, at Merton, or for the house at Stamford-bill, formerly in the pos session of the LngsAnAs. Saturday evening the body of a new-born male child was taken out of the New River, near Dalby terrace, City-road, and was taken tia the Blue-coat Boy public-house, for a Coroner's Inquest : it was supposed to have been in the water some days, it being in a putrid state, and was inclosed in a bag, with an old newspaper wrapped•round its body. LAW 119.'ELLIGENC4.! • . COyliT OF COMMONS PLEIS, Joxit 5. TIM MOON Totxußs. I. • WELCH V. PEARCE. which This was an action brought by an Artist, to rpr o ., ver 101. lOs. for a picture and frame. 'fop D,,t,„d . ant keeps a public-house in Hishopsgate-street, fre.. quented by Wiltshire men. On one occasion they requested him to hang up *lute in his parlour that would remind them of their country ; the Defendant consented, and the subject was to r,, b r e a th e e l.e M es o e o i n era, a story peculiar to Wilts. It is jot: li e: w ry:l:t o ed : that a custom-house officer once observed a party o f Wiltshire men raking a pond was only the moon in tho ow. This ludicrous subject WAS roposed to the P.aintitf, dered to make a sketch, end send it in with•the price. The sketch was made, and the price for a picture, four feet by three, was to he five guineas. His de sign was highly approved, but at a general meeting of the Wiltshire folks, the painter was instructed to add three things, viz. an Owl, a Haystack, and a Smuggler, with two Kegs of Drawly on his Shoulders. The picture was finished according to the order anti sent home. The Defendant was Atisfied, and if wa s . hung up in his parlour in a frame. for which the Plain s tiff was to be paid an additional live guineas s making his price for the whole . 101. 104. A subject operating 1 as a libel upon the county of Wilts, could not suit every taste, and some one of the Wiltshire men, perhaps piqued for the honour of his county, very clandestinely and resolutely ran a poker through the ' smuggler's body. The picture with a large hole in it was then sent back to the Plaintiff, and in order to get rid of it altogether, the Defendant alleged that it had not been painted according to contract, inasmuch as it was painted on paper put upon canvas, and not I upon canvas itself. Mr. Serjeant VAuGnam, for the publican said, his Client's object was to have a picture that could be scrubbed and washed clean, because the smoke in ! his parlour rendered that ceremony necessary at feast ! once in twelve months. The Plaintiff had received 'orders to paint it on canvas, but had thought fit to do it on paper, which would stand no washing. Corn. I melding on the picture itself, which was exhibited its Court, to the great amusement of all present, lie de dared the owl was a correct likeness of one of the Plaintiff's witnesses, who had given his evidence in rather a nocturnal sleepy style: he said he should have thought a full moon sufficient indication of night . without an owl, but looking a little closer at the pic. ture, he found the moon might be taken for a baiter pudding, and therefore the owl was required by way of glossary. It appeared under all the circumstaaces, that the Plaintiff had received no orders to paint on canvas, and the Jury gave a verdict for Ten Gui. nea.s.—The cause afforded much mirth kr Court. POLICE. i - t INFAMOUS ASSAULT. Matrstott-ttocs6.—Monday Wither• Ci.wdell was charged hefore the LORD MAYOR.. with vitaiends ussnuititg a young lad, named Smith, no Saturday evettl••g, miler td,- following age rayattod circumstances :—Ehe Prude. 106 x and a frtarkt campanion, named Clark, wet e, it appeared, passing through Curnhill on the evealag meMian•d. wtwts a gang of desperate characters attacked them, and makiwoured to s ei ze th e i r s!tawls or handkerchiefs. 'rite compatt.on of the Priwetstris, in a fright, ran away, and the farmer was left alone. She ctw tinued, however, to pursue her nay thrat.4l. Citeapside, hat observed the Pris'.uer tallow, as d again coining cat, stopped her, and made a watch :tt her :14%41. Sc! , sc►eamed for assist nnre, and the Prisoner annual. -truck ,her ►everal violent blows, knocked Ir•r head ngaittst the slur trrs ota shop, threw he: down, and white in this *ilia:Ulan kicked her most Shaalr fully. Assistance, however, e ua to her ad, the was le scued from his graft), and he was taken lira twwmdv.•—Upon their arris•nl at file watch-110U,', a•ul while preferring the charge against him, he again made a desperate blow at her, and said. he should base her lite., 'the Prisoner pleaded iotosica tiocebut this bring divroverl, lie was folly committed for trial. Queen-SQUARE.—Montlas, Charles White. a journeyman jen'eller, whom the .snicets: have been in pursuit for the last two sears, underwent a lii examinatinti, charged on anipicion of having. r ~,,,, flitted divers felonies. particularly of !riving cam milted a burglars• on the premises of Mr Haloes Witcher. New. part street. upwards of two sears ago, nail of having slated a casket of jewels pearls from Mr tirksoro, t .epweller r NCI'. the ti;lit e., tt:olt him into custody nn Thursday last ; and on the premises to - if oiler farad the ca , ket or pearls the casket was stolen from %Ir. Griss art hs a man who went L'a his shop 111 a k fir w.,rk ; hut heir. G. would mitner *wear lit the property nor to White. He. however, thought he mi;ht be able to :Aduce such proof; White was,thetefire,eummitted to Tnthill•tieids Bridewell, for further et:to/thalami, TO T. I'AYLOIt, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. DEAR SIR, FEEL it a duty incumbent upon me to inform I you of the very great it'd extraordinort tore I have re retv.ll from your uhvaltsahle Medietue, LEAKE'S PATENT PILLS. AS out two years nen I was attacked with s•Venereal which 1 treated t AMA- slightly for Settle time; but the d.,o!ltse at length sprendine al over Ili, body, I was urbliped to u; plc to the oitoit eminent of the Faculty, but (weir a:WA:wee affiitied only temporary relief. i went thrm t h vPri.l.l4oolll3e* of salivation, and from being rather of a cm-mile-I 114104 was d to a mere kkeletoo. The ulcers that sp:ead all over my limbs ietioered me a complete .shjed, to that my flien'S despaired of 3. -Y re. 01.•• r%. lvhru 11; ()tiht to this bild4litsa, considered demos rt, ir•evouble; but a ielatinn of mine com menting smut the many ca,e- in whit t your Pills ,steeeeded, t ,was induced to try a nom of them. whit!, I thought rather re bevel ale; nod hy persevering for too or three mot.ths, tin& following your directions, I exp.-H.41.-er, she - able relatation from pain, the sor,a gradually Winding. I an., now, 'Musk God, perfectly reenve•ttl. nod walknutd tily• dotibt not, but one mitre boa, whir:. I th'sk cautious take, will estatiiirlt sty health ft; it•orit mat .131... It is a ith the moat heattfelt gratitude that I subserihe my self, Sir, your much o:iiiged humble servant, WILLIAM PIERSON. Dransgate, Manchester. July 1. P. S. Fur the public benefit 1 do not object to the above being published, hut leave you to act as your own better judg - ment shall dictnte. 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