The National Register. — London, England, 1819-06-14 00:00:00

JUNE M. can meetings fur thT purpose of reducing the price. (//ear.) The article stow, if toot interfered wall by duty ins malt, have !Well reduced ; but lie aas prepared to contend, that it was a good thing to find a ta t a hieli did not increase, although d foreword the lightening the binder's of the pe..ple, ish:le at ilie same Line it actually hem- lio ed the stale. It must Str evideut to any rational ID.. three mnllaoor of taxes. avid not he imposed on any articles what ever, without heir% felt by the country a hut tittle was a petit difference !ast ween a tux that eased the p. ice of an article, and one that men ly prevented it Idling. In matter to Mr. Wod.louse, the Right Hon. tient. cameo& d, that the tat ripen malt would produce no rllrct upon agriculture, and that the itg, 'cultural ititerest had no right to shut out sin adequate sapply for the cousumpt tau of the tawdry, if they could not furnish it thomsels es. The ',resell( tax was to he viewed as it attn led the consumer and the revenue. Timm the quantity of malt would not he increased by diminishoug the tax. was es ident by the simple fact, that last year the qu of barley, malted in England, although the article airs cheap, unit the malt duty taken off, had been less than that of t he last year of time war, a ben the war duty was iu torte. Thus, neither the revenue had benelltted by any lucre:lraqi quantity of malt, nor the public by any dimi natio!' of pi ire. His Right Hun. frinul. ~round him would bear Isaacs' to the anxiety which had been shown to dud out subjects of taxation which would be least oppressive. A tax upon niticles of luxury anal,' not have Zilljaered the purpose. They were therefore compelled to resort to one on an article of general use and great con sumptiors. An lion. Gent. (Mr. Buxton) had said that he would agree to taxes, became they punished us for the war, made the people feel its evils, and thus tended to prevent them from engaging in future hostilities. He (Mr. Husks. sou) was as friendly to peace, and as much an enemy to war a. the lion. Gent. i but lie thought the best way of preserving the nor, and of avoiding the other, an, .0 place the country in a stale of 64°1111 ity, mod to show 1.1 foreign nations that we could nut be ii.jured in insulted a ith impunity. Mr. ti La would 4,111110. e rill the proposed taxes as oppressive to tl, lower coders, though ton iu unequal degree. He protested ugliest all new taxes 011 every source of ce./1111111, and retreeclinient were exhausted. Sr. J. Sr no lc or supported the lases genernily, hut pro fessed himself ho-tile to the tat on malt, us it all; cted ngri eud Mr. though lie was sorry to oppose so good a systeni as that of a hick d termed a part. Mr. BacoorlAN toil Hot intend to trouble the House at any T reat leNth at th 1 late hour of th e night. He co u ld not,lmwevw„ help thanking the Hog. Heather. opposite (lir. Mathison), fur the udinission abieb he had made, though at the Milne time lie must übsetve that it was not an /Om ssion of any vet s guest importance. Tho admission to wh eh he alluded to was this—that when three millions of fates were to be imposed upon the country, they must be paid Icy come-body, and the weight of them must fall- some licre ; and that it sus art, us the Chancellor of the.Laclie quer laid staled it to be, that he should get the money with..ut any body losing it. (hear, hear). indeed from the JJJJJ er an which thatitilit lion. Gent. had gone through the budget, he via/old - defy cosy person to say hua the ;a venue was tic be raised, or erti wham its pressioe was la iocipally to fail. It bud lung been she custom to taunt the geinaemen with wham he had the honour of toting as idle theorists and insane projectors; t hey had been ea itild during many a long year as men who proposed noticing to the House but the inl.Sl value Hind tlitr:Aavalit projects, but it had Ismail omit that at. y were the practical melt, and that the Hight Hon. Gentleman and his supporters acre these ruin, visionary theorists which he had stated theist to he. ( Loud cries of hear.) Had all been confirmed in the course of tlce debate, lie must must strenuously oppose it. out Merely this tat, but all cite others now riposted. They were all equally oppo site to the principles of sound pollsiial economy ; acid though hi should nut enter upon diem now, Ice slenuid say' en tot:grant, that they were each injadieititus as the malt tax. Our word mar. as to the necessity of the. tax ; it was said to he requi site to take two millions out. of the pockets of the p ,in 'bider to testore the country to a state of happiness and prosperity. An Hail. kleinher bud said, ee illll,l have these fates :is a serious ce with which to Potpie Us to meet a future tsar. It a Llb true, we might go tic a ar, though Ice hoped that such au evil was very tar iiistaid. Lveie a lien it fell upon us, we should be able to nivel it better by not pi essing too hard upon our resources in time of peace; by satiering Muse resources to accumulate they would have so far fruc tified as to enable the people to make head against their cutely with much seater vigour than if the Iluuse weer to make tbeinselt es trustees of nil the property in the nation, and allow it to accumulate at eeturaind interest. There ass no better way of nursing the property of the subject, than by leaving it in his own hands; therefore to state thin there was any necessity for this lax, nod to call upon the landholder, and especially no the barley-grower, ta pay it, was as great a fallecy as the Right lion. Gent. had ever ventured to propose to the country, lie sbuuld oppose tie present tax in every stage of it. Mr. Cote declared himself to he against all new taxes, whatever they Wright be, until an Pipet eiliebt had been made of what might be dime by retreischment, lie would never consent to impose a new tax upon :he :'ready too much bur dened people. Besides, of all the taxes which could possibly have been tit riser', the malt tax was lice most oppressive. lie had 1111 doubt that the governme nta had teeeived the memo riul w hich had be en sent frion the county of Norfolk, cum plaining of the distress of lice agriculturists; and yet mob 5.. is me 1111 l riul before them they had come forward with n new tax which would press nicest heavily sit his Conseil*. eels. The ministry nu-ht to lower and not increase this im post. In that l'at.e, the cousumption of barley would be in creased, and the interest of the agriculturist iu consequence impressed. Ile should oppose any lax upon %scud, ten, cut ler, &c.; but lw should oppose aMt still greater vehemence so unjust aid impolitic a tax as it was uow proposed to lay upon malt. The Commilt,e then divided upon the mak ret.o:utiun, and the uumbets stew— .19d—Noes ...9T—Mijnrity....lol - - The remaining resolutions, improing additional duties nn tobacco, pepper, entire. cocoa, find spirits, were then Put succeimsel ; anal Mr. J. 1.. Cram moved an amendment to each of ocin (1-xcep, that rel,ting top plies), the of ject of which aas to fix the duties at the ilfebel.i eites. .1 he amend anent§ were all imam ased %idiom die remilution. agreed 11/. Mr Boownsm reported progre,%; :00l the boos, h.tvlng returned, thy report was or end to rvccot d (1.3. The othr, orders of the da, welr Ihru divpu,rd of, and the limor .thjourued to half-post I. TIU2L6DAY, JUNE 10. An immense nunitit r 0f l'etiti..us were presented against the Voreiin Enlistment THE NATIONAL REGISTER Mr. M. A. TA v Loa w:.s story that none of his Majesty . ' 51 ousters were preici.t when Ihese l'el hunts hate pens. Mr. ll.ushia,;tim expres►ed his iissonishmeid that (hey shoal., be required to be pre►enl as soon as the I [owe ins t. 1I r. CA I.ek ary said, ail the Ministeis wei r not desired to he present, because it Ma. Weil known that many of thefts weir mere cypteis ; but as they bad di.pluyed leach ig. nominee, it 14.0 Chiwiltial that they should know what was the 'cal mate of the country. Si, M. SY. RIDLEY wished that some lion. Member would cummuoicate tq the Minister! what had passed against this most mischievous, impolitic, and ►uinuus measure. GAOL DELIVERY.—Mr. 5% LIITERN Inomllit ("award hi. Mott... respecting the obtainem: of it mar fu•gaenl gaol de. livery.— lie would adopt any course that the Iterate might prescribe; all he %Stinted to accomplish was a more fn cpwat gaol delivery than is accomplished by two assizes has the year, it now liegWotly happened , accordiogut returns berme the House, that prisoners, after being conliard for six men tits, had no bids found against them, or were acquitted. --(Hear ) The Hon. Member then entered intro a state. moat illustrative of the insiiiheieury of the ;oilmen in tlw various parts of the kingdom ; of their w lin of a lassilica lion, &e. ; and he contended that these evils might be in a way remedied by te mine freqiient gaol delivery.—( Hear.) He conciuded with moving ran Address 5 , ./ the Prince Regent, that the Prime Regent would be please d to give directions for a gaol delivery three tiers in tne sear, sit more often, if need he, the House ute:citakin,; to make goad the expenses of the same. The A rimester-Guts** L said, it was impossible that there slimild be a more frequent gaol dedvery than now took place, us Me as the Judges were riillterrlfd. 1 1 1ARNIAG elf:T.—Air. Wlll. Su - ii presented a Peti tion fr Gil at Yarmouth against certain parts of the Marriage Act ; and he gave notice, at the same time, that he should on We ilntadey next submit to the Hattie a pro position on the subject. After remarks front Mr. flallnrst, &c. the motion was negatived without a division. 'f•he Report of the Committee of Ways and Means w as brought up, and, nn the question that the hew Malt huh he agreed ta, a division took plate. The numbers w ere—Ay es IYl3—Nuts 73. FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ATTORWEV.GENE RAI. then moved, that the Rouse du resolve itself into a Com mittee of the whole House on she Foreign Enlistment Bill. Sir J. AlaclNzosti began by declaring hi , concurrence in the intention expressed by au lion. Gentleman (the member fir the city of Londor.) on a former Uttliiiioll, of opposing the whole of this Bill, except the clause which went to repeal the Acts of Geo. 11. It was something remarkable, that in is great commercial nation which had o lung flourished in security and glory, a bill of this kind should now be first introduced into Parliament. Ile ironic' ask, admitting the truth and existence of the evil com plained of, yet, even then, why were they to lea's a bill sn favour able to the party at whoa instance it was trained ? Why was Feidinand VII. to be to favoured, a name on which he should fasten to epithets, because it could receive noaddition from any thing he could say, to those with which it was already loaded. It aces for the lion gentlemen to blame, not the rigour of impar• tial laws., but the interposition of new ones. f,l null they, the bonourable••entlemen opposite, require parliament to arraign the wisdom of their ancestors, and alter and invert time ancient laws which had existed throughout so many centuries ? The consti• tutiun framed by our ancestors, inure with a view to their own li• betty, than the desires of foreign nations. did not perhaps pos. see sufficient conveniences; it did not possibly ena►le the minis ter, in reply to the applications of Imeign ambassadors, to say, with auntie, that certainly every thing ehoulci be done to meet the enlightened and benevolent wishes of that Marcus Aurelius of Spain, Fenlinund VII. That coarse system of our ancestors was hardly in unison with the ideas of ministers, which dwelt upon the relined and implored govettunents of the continental powers; and, therethre, they must have something by way of imitation—an alien net for instance. When, in tar?, Lord .Li ecepool. th e then Secretary at War (and every body must highly applaud his conduct) replied to Napoleon. with certainly as much propriety as it cattle front the harms of old, fVuhanar Anglia . mature," they did not leave the parliament fur the mi nister. Much had been said, and must unjustly, about the conduct and motives of the merchants. The noble lord hat treated them with considerable severity on a former night ; b u t really, he was not so convinced of the superior purity of intention of politicians; and it was hardly a question with hint, whether their intentions were not much oftener infinitely more consonant to the happiness and best interests of mankind. (!hear, hear.) The Immutable and learned member concluded his speech, by calling the :mention of the house to the melancholy fate of the (ones, on assembly to w Inch Spain was so vitarly in• debted. It had b••en said that they (lac Corte.) were out a recognized ussenitily : hut had we not Ourselves accepted from them a trophy of the victorams successes which had distinotished the period of their goseinment, and en;raved upon it an inscription, in which their name w,,e coupled with that of she greatest captain of the a;r Vet these were the very men who were now doomed to languish in dungeons tend Owe urity, the victims of that !Waal ch in whose fuvour the measure was proposed. At the close of this speech, the 11.111. and learned member was gaveled with a very loud and general applause, %each lasted some mi anew. I be House then resolved into a committee, and the brat einae wa* amended, According iv the histraction mused by the Atturnay•4rnetd, and agreed to.—un the tecond clause the Wear tinkled— fur time atuae, Ws; AaAim. it, 174; Majority 74. Jll,lll LoAn BILL—The CIiANCELLOK of the ExcnEravca brought in a Bill for tai►iug the snot of 12 millions by nuy of antiody.—ltead a Mil time and ordered to ha read a werond time to. row. Sheriff Koherts appeased at the bar with a Petition from the City of Loudon against the impositiou.of :3,000,010. of additional Liles. The Petition having been brought up, Mr. WAWI74 AN I lid. it li.id been agreed to this day at one Of the iiieetiogi of the C Council that lie had ever oitnemed t that unlc Ave or sic hand, ii;o1 he. n 11.1.1 up agabot it ; and that he believed the leo persona who oppieed it object% al to the form only, not to the milotance of the Petition. Thy Petitioo oat then laid on the Wile and ordered to be printed. LOTTIBRY BILL. — TbeCHANcet.LoR only« EXCIIEQUKII brought in ABU for grunting his Militia) ta sum ut mum%) to tiv ruined Its Lotter). The Bitl. way re44:l a first time, and after n few remarks 'room 31r 1:. Lamb, Mr. Curwen, and the Chaim liar of the Litcbequeror, Leh ts ere trot distinctly audible in tlai gkllery, st ens •ppointed to be read n second time on Mond:., DUTY ow Touecco.—Ala. (1. Laau wiblk'd to know, %%lath, r the new duly on Tobacco 4.f 10d. per pound, would be Lid on the sto4 which dealers had at reseal oil hand. Mr. 1.1.711,11NGT0N tiloUdll there could he no doubt that the rind.. I.ss hand at the trine the act was pied would he liable In pay the new duly. CLERIC OS . TUC rs•Cs (IREL•ND) U. 191 PARC CI r. moved the order of time day for the sec ~,,, I ,railing of this Emil. Several amendments were made, after *shirt: the Bill wi,s ptis-ed FOREIGN ENLISTMENT I.L.—M7. Timm:DEE brought up the tryout uflise Tile report was read, alai mane ut the amendments u ere agreed tu. 'rhe Sour:non GEN IR At. brought op mune new clauses tthirh hr iiiii vet, sh. add be added to the H 11. Air. Ituot:t.ll AM Ihnl/glll. 111:11 Ihe loose and 1111'011. Sisient isktin,er iu h toe Rill NH% brought in. ii i the amendments intionlured. when 111 W te.1.111 - 11 ka vilentan did nut k • 11% wlil told bet it, or was to be, dune Issi :lumber when nine inherent- were br-ught in, a 4 limb 'tented to Alter the fettUre of the til I altnitesi.ee, it ought to he re• committed, in a, in giar the Howe 1111 OpplortUnity Or econstutot it name elskielv. The SoLief At. observed, Ant there were no new enives but the substitution asinine words f.,r whyss in partwillar places. Lord CASILER LAGU moved, that the Rill he entrnssed, for the purpose of being rt ad a tb.rd time on Wednesday next. Mr. DCNMAsI Was anxious that the Rill shoultibe re-coin. 11111 Si► J M ACKINTOSH said, that if the treaty of 1814 wern carried into diet t, Spain had only 71 ight to demand that ue iLunld not give any particular ns!.utance to•nte side; hut by the present proceeding we should he ittli)rding a pro. tection to one side, w hile we acted hitt di:eel tout racy anMts.. tier to the other. A short conversation Ihen ensued as to the time a ben the Rill should go through its next stage. The cesspit nun th:sa. L..rd Castlereath consented That Hill slnashi be take. into further consideration ow Wednesday next. POOR RATEI.-ir. 8. Rou t,,4 moved WIG reading - of the Poor Hales Misapplication lIiU, and alter a diva, sive the ambers were. • For the bill, 09 Against it, 4ri I Ittajority,23. When w•e were re-admitted to the gallery, Sir J. Maein. trash w4s proposing a clause to ptotert the children of Protestant Dissenters from the operation of this net. Ali'. S. Boort PI It thought birch a CISMIC quite noneeem. nary. Sift. J. M 4eINTO.III said, that by the bill as It now stood, use children would tie taken from the sniscriateritledice of the parent, and placed entirely tinder be impel intiaidence the sehoolinasit r. The parties, its wituse faveta tic w tilted to introduce the elsuse just read to them. were proved by their dissent to he conscientious people, arid the refine, in all probability, VIONI4 be fund of their chile ten, and willing to puts wish them. lie therefore thctiglit that to *lame d • d the attention of the noose. Alter a taw vouall. It usa Mr. S. jiaus toe, the clause was rejected, and tire trill passed. Mr. ARBLTIIKOT mused a new writ for elerting • bur gess to score in Parliament for the borough ulthirelusites• in the room of Sir Samuel ti:tepherd, appointed Chief Ba ron of Eschrtpier in Scotland.—Urdu red. sir C. :110I6C/L moved, that an addless he presented to the hitter Hearn', praying that Isis Royal Highness would direct to be laid before the House a copy alike treaty en tried intp between Russia and Tut try, in the year ISOO, relative to the lonian Islands, and I citric(' to in-the testily of Paris, in 18IS._ _ After is few viord4 from Lord Castlereagh, which were inaudible is the genet), the morion was agreed iv. The oilier orders or the Jay w. e e !ben disposed or, and the liou.se adjoui ord. Volta. GUILDHALL: !nut affne—lAigruccpd Mal and DiOurtance si /bakele7s Burial greiodd. --Our readers will recollect the, circ 1111 l stance which occurred a short time since, of the Rector of Sr. Andrew's, Holborn. miming to inter a corpse enclosed titan iron coffin: proceedings have sines been instituted against hint, Iw such retinal, in the Le clesiastical Court, and the cause w:s in progress .14 hearing ; but by the sudden death of Ilse Reverend Mr. Clare, the Rector, the suit is conserptenily abated. lite corpse, widen was that of a Mrs. CUlbett, the wife of respectable inhabitant of that parish has remain:Nl abate ground ever since, a period of nearly three mouths. and. the husband being about to leave town was of course de sirous of seeing the body of his wife decently interred previous to his departure. With thiseiew, apprehenthng no further oppos lion, the Rector being dead, he peace the necessary directions to Mr. Bridgman, the patentee of the iron coffins, to prepare for the funeral. Mr. Bridgman accordingly waited on the Bishop of Lendim on Tuesday last, and stated to his Lordship the discou. tinuancc of the suit against the late Hector, regitestint; that. as there were 'row no legal proceedings behne the Court. his Lordship would direct the minister to bury the bode. His Lordship, however, declined in interfere, upon the ground that the case might olt;itiately bveutile a qu stion before the Eccesiasti, al Coon. Ott the Wechiesthy, Mr. liridgitian sent notice to the, churchwarden. the minister, and the sottnn, of his in. tentiou to bury the body the hem thy; reply tees made, that every thing would he in readiness, last if the bode werednoisght in an iron collie, it uould hut be penti;iita to be interred. Not witliseanding this determination, the funeral pro. ceeded with a proper solemnity, attended by the husband • of the deceased and others, to St. Andrei% 'a bon) ing ground, in Gray's-inn-lane, on Thursday. On their ar— rival, the gates were shut against them, and all admis— sion denied by the sexton and his assistan:s ;. after wait. jag there a considerable Moe, surrounded by an nn. mense b, Mr. Gilbert directed that the body should be t .keen to St. Andrew's church,. Ilioltitrit, hoping to find the minister there at evening sent ice. and to induce I to perfocin thecere ttttt ; the hotly was accordingly. taken thither, and the gales being open, the precession. entered without other ttttt lest:tinny than from tile un melts: crowd Iv hid) accompanied it; the minister, how-. eter. was not thew to buoy it, and the sexton, who hall by this time arrived, insisted upon the body's being taken assay ; this was refused, and the beare►s deposited the coffin upon one of the tombstones, near the from door of the church to rte to be 11l site tient. of the ter►ons 111 thii I