The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

'CBE STATESMAN. ~A s itat are iat much inconvenience was likely to arise ducted in the Court of Cheater by the former, with um that adjournment with respect to the hearing out any previous interference r by the hate. But et 'lly appeal causes. this wds not always the case.. For insialice, the re -"nr DERBY -The ndjournmunt must, if it cent criminal prosecutions for riot lu that part of the country were directed by his Majesty's Attorney- 'mined a confident expectation , _ 4. the situ General, who assisted at the consultations of his Gentleman opposite would not object to their adop- ! weary : Majesty's Government, the ob Bison Maru lez ject of which was to flog , . lie would , theref ore, move as an amendment o Commandant at Besancon, write* ascertain the best mode of quelling the disturbances. to the Right Holt. Gentleman's motion, to leave OM as f o ll ows: , Should such occurrences again take place unde r the all the words after the word 41 That," for the pare << On the 31st of January the , enemy. made an ata existing circumstances, persons would he tried by an I pose of inserting the following : tack from the side of Briguelle : ia...the ' Wet, ag individual who had advised and directed their prose- 1 "An humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness caused to play iriverthe town twollefteries of howit, cution ! It WAS ,undoubtedly true that these two the Prince Regent , to exp ress to his Ro y al Highness the tens and cannon, and attempted an attack-spow•tha offices lied at former periods been held by t h e same g rateful acknewiedgments of this Houle for the commnoication fort of Chandone; he was every wl•ere repulsed, amidst the cry of Pive l'Empereur. t He has lost ` an d which his Royal Highest. has beeo pleased to send to this individual. Lord Kenyon, Lord Aleau le y , Home, in the name and on the •b m ebelf ef his Majesty. To as than 1200 men. At whatever part the ei#r o y other persons, whose memory be highly respec ted, I sure his Royal Highness, that eotwithstandier the recent Ad had so held them. Bat so inconsistent did the ap- him, with pure notions of the 's" season when s• many mum o r presents himself, rabies iisa condition to well re.. pointment seem to t i urnment of this House' at a the g ravest importance pressed themselves upon its maidens. ceive him. ' . All the Cossacks ` who had spread themselves as far independence of the judicial character , which ou g ht tion , and for ii,period of very unusual length, this House will not to be exposed to be affected either by the hope . cheerfully comply with the pleasure of his Royal Highness, as Orleans are hastily falling 'back . %Every where of Royal favour, or by the fear of R I Royal re- fortified by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and adjourn itself the pestle ids pursue, and take and kill a Brent num. .- s etionent, that no example, even had Sir Matthew . t o the Iht da y of March instant, trusting that the unexampled her of them. At Nogent, .those Tartars, who have of public affairs upon the Contioent of Europe will a ff ord Hale, or Lord Somers himself afforded it, could in i state I nothing human, burnt some barns, to which Viet ' , a justification of their conduct to their Constituents and to pos. his opinion sanction such a measure. It was a great , set fi re with their • hands . The - peasants NM terityoprevent its heir drawn . into pernicious precedent, and brini ng come out to . ..extinguish it, the C s ossecks chastest . ...• misfortune that the instances to which he had just preclude the possibility of its being attributed to Inattention to . • them, and rekindled the fire. Ina *tillage on s tile alluded, in which the two offices were held by one the great concerns which tall for the increased vigilance and as- individual • ilr "en ne, the Cossacks were amusing themselves in d been *allowed to pass without corn- • .9 ha corn- bu ll y of the House of Commons, or any dereliction of its sacred i meet. Impossible is It was to justify the appoint- . 1 burning a fine farmshouse, the totain was soon f jed nsent, it seas essential that such silence should not , and the whibitants threw some 30 of them West) $ . . Th e ' I It ' ;.'' duties." eCI ANCELO of the in 9 19 - again be observed, and particalarly in that House, mo ved dames. reply, defended the propriesk of Ms having one of the peculiar duties 'of which was vigilantly to ! for the postponement of the Committees before he i The Emperor Alexander slept on the 17th at " Bray ; he had fixed his head - quarters for thefollow. watch over the impartial administration of justice.— • • . made the communication to the House from the Fontainbleau f . The Emperor of Austria What would be said by the country if one of the , Prince Regent; but the Right Honourable Gentle- lag day /it twelve'Judges was to accept an o ffi ce inconsistent I did not quit Troyes." . . 1 man spoke in a tone of voice which was at times so. . The Emperor Naptiletin bad on the 20th, ' the and the proper discharge of his judicial functions, veil inaudible that we were utterly unable to fol- ! in a and from Which he was removable .at his Majesty's ' evening, his head.seuerters at Nogent. kir him , Although he seemed to be arguing that the pleasure? What then could be said of an inclijianal; , , . ellmmuuseasion must, of neeessit be the last step, I All the enemy's army is marclang upon Troyes. who held the two incompatible o ffi ces of * Judgisind • air respeCt to the Crti k we l wo nt of mute induce' Gen. Girard has arrived with his corps, and the division of cavalry of General Roussel, at Sens ; he Attorney-General, the emoluments of the latter office i the house , without entering into any further busi : had his advanced guard at Villaneuve l'Archiveque. • being four or five times greater than those of the , The advanced - guard of the Duke of Reggio is half ness, to adjourn immediately on the intimation of , former, and from which latter o ffi ce he was removablel the Royal pleasure. He 'Proceeded to say, that he at the pleasure of the Crown ? Could such a person ; s • the Amendment , ;at Mesgrigny ; those of the Duke of Tarentum are could by no - means consent to the Amendment pro.. way between Nogent and Troyes, at Chartres a nd be considered an independent Judge ? The House ; posed by the Hon. Gentleman.. The House would , at P avilion . . The Duke of Ragusa is at Snanne, ob. must be aware that the o ffi ce of Chief Justice of ' that by the present mode of proceeding the serving the movements of Gen. who ' Chester was a very high one,. being next in import- l nbaerve l Suspension of the fuectioni of Parliament was left left Soissons, has marched upon Rheims, by lance to those of the twelve Judges; the Chief Justic e ! Winzingerode , s lin the hands of Parliament itself.. if, however, by : baying to 'unite. With' the wrecks of Genteel of Chester having always to try an extraordinary ‘ ! adopting such a proposition . as that made by the Hon. : CbaleUss 'Blucher's annt. .This..:Dake of Ragas& would felt number both of criminal and of civil cases: He Gentleman, any jealousy were evinced by the House, upon his left ank. if be should again engage ;hit's. ! had felt it to be his duty to throw out these ob• t ;then, under similar circumstances the Crown would I servations; but he repeated that it was not his iii- . 9 r . ,1 1 ... Ibe put to the necessity of. preferring the more incon self Solite* is a place' ibeltered from's' coup de onefts. tention to make any motion onabedebject.—gleor a l venient form of prorogation , to that of simply re- i Gen. Winzingerode, at* the head of 4 or 5000 light hew) hear! commending an adjournment. The present was a summoned i t to surrender. Gen. Rusca re . The motion was then put atxd agreed to.. proceeding sanctioned by the practice of all former ;troops, as he ought... Winzingerode placed 'his It On the motion of Mr. PONSONBY a new writ : , periods. In very few instauces had such a recom- ! Plied pieces of cannon hi a battery: unfortunately the first was ordered to be issued for the Counts ', of Kildare mendation froga l ahe Crewn.<the House resting on the P ball killed Gen: Ruses s 1000 men of the national in the room of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, who had ac- 9. cepted the office of Steward of East liendred. ,; responsibility of Ministers) been even made the sub . : guards were th e 'only garrison in the !Ascii they ADJOURNMENT. • ! ject of debate. In one case, during' the last war, On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the the question of adjeurnment in similar circumstances were thunderstruck, and . the toteaty entered ,Sois sons, where he colfsmitted . all:the.horrors imaginable. EXCHEQUE, the Comniittee of Supply was post- had unquestionably been brought to a division - allot what were the numbers ? On the one side the tellers, , The Generals who were in theplace, and who should poned from t R o-morrew until Wednesday the 23d .on the other the whole body of the House ! With , bare taken the command •upen the death of Gets: instant. •-• ' On the CHANCELLOR. of the ICXCHXQUER • respect to the last 'subject alluded to by the Hon. ° Rusca shall `be brought before a Council of Enquiry, making a similar motion with respect to the Coin- Gentleman, he would only say, that when the proper i for this town ought ,nOt to have been taken. mittee of Ways and Means, , • . time should arrive, his. Majesty's Government would i The Duke of Treviso Se-occupied Soissons on th e Mr. TIERNEY expressed his SIAM . , , m i ihe .be ready to give every viplanation that migbt 1,,e p e . ; liith; Slid has re-organised the defence of it. - • 'cgolecassigt ... • -s• s. • . • Higlpt lion. - Gentleman had ahstaineitf s . . - eessar to elucidate the discussion which the Hie Oen: Vincent writes from Chateau h' .r . isle „, 7 . •. $ , T terry, that . ss treteleniati anticipated. 2so of the enemy's light troops having returned to any ,liatoll9 for these ' p roposi ti ons : , X,„. • 1 . HOUSE OF COMMONS. ~,. , . The CHANCELLOR of the .EXCREQUER Lord ARCII. lIA MI LTON, when he considered ,Fore, in Tardentsie, M. d'Arhand Missun marclvd the advanced period of the Session, and the length of ; against thete with 00 horse of the- gardes d'horanallt After a vast 1141 of s private business bad been . replied, that the reason which indecif him .to wish . . . .. the adjohrnment•which had already taken place, felt : which he had collected , and with rho assistance Ild f gene throegh, a new writ'swas moved for the Barbugh for the postponement of the Committees**, that in himself compelled to resist the motion of the Right ! the national guards of the . i'llages, beat them, kill. of Eye, in the room of Sir William Garrow, Who leonsequence of the existing stet° of pablic ; afairs . „ hi lion. Gentlemen. He would ask the House, if they big several, and dispersing the romaluder. less accepted the Chief JOsticeship of Chester : Upon had a somnitinication to niake. to the litiesefromitis . - Gen. Milhaud met the enemy at St. Martin-Les which, • , ..!' l , KO il highness the Wince Regent, which colimpid-. meat, that at the end of two months a still farther . Hammy, upon the old road from Nogent. to Troyes,: Sir s:. ROMILLY observed, that the appoiritmeni: cation he whuldahen make, namely that it was his delay would be asked, they would have consented . The enemy had about 800 horse. He caused thew.* which had occasioned the necessity for the motion Royal Ilighness's pleasure, eking in the name. and so readily as they then did ? Ile wished to throw n oi to be attacked by 300 men, who overthrew him, ju a made by the lion. Gentleman appeared to him ' on the behalf of his Majesty, that the flousOshoeld . embarrassment in the way of his Majesty's Ministers; made 160 prisoners, killed some SO men, and took. t.. ba so ohjoctionalde itt its nature, that he should ' adjourn anti! lifonday, the `' let inst. hi' consonance slot consider hititsalf as having properly discharged his •to this intimation, hi! see d: neie l . that at ke l'arNamentary daty, unless he called the attention of i the Mete should adj Out ',lll i iiiiday li e elst in 4t,rising but he really could not see in what way the sitting !about WO horses. He has pursued. and is still pur of the !louse would embarrass them. The quantity of ! all'ina, the enemy epee dons lee reins. ! papers exhibited that day in the House was a strong I The Doke of Castiglione bas left Lyons with a 11. e House fcr a few moments to the subject. It wasittant. reason for opposing the adjournment. • • 1 considerable corps d'armee, composed of chosen not his intention to make any motion respeethig it ; I Mr. WHlTBREATiebsetved; Ait'ettit4 t 4h every ; he had not heard that suchfosat the intention . of any one had andelPOW the .6itiiintinicitilan eillich had Mr' PONSONBY said, no man could feel morel troops, to march into Fratiche Comte and Switsere s ` forcibly than himself the inconvenience to the public laud- . other Hounu(able Member:: Tito present, therefore, ! just been Othounced by Ipshi:oonoOehle Gen. with which an adjournment would at present be at- The Congress of Chatillon still continues ; het wag the only opportunity which he reed - ever have Osman, yet it was certainly litirpOrnis'tkat.the Right • to make the observstions that see Med to him to be so :.Honourablaneniteinara bad tlett i ptettered me t king the : tended ; but every man must also feel the very im- theetiemy throws every difficulty in the way of it portant and delicate situation of affairs at this crisis; (etas l'enneatic y pork . tonic eapece dealt - aces). necessary. lie understood that his Majesty's At- ' coMmunication the pielictilniteY atm toile ilosrpone torofy.Geoeral, who had recently accepted the high tent of the CoMtnittala, initeld of making,the post- : and w h ets his Majesty's Ministers, on their responsi- The Cossacks at every step stop the couriers, aid judicial (Alive described in the Honourable Gentle- ' ponement of pia •CtisititNel 14 tirelitniintri step to' bility, came forward to the House and asked an ad- although we are but 30 leagues distance from Cheat mates motion, had nut assigned the office of Attorney. ! the communication . Trite WV *if „sore that : joarnment for th e three weeks, he felt himself unable I lon, in a direct line, couriers do not arrive but after General, told did not Mean to resign it; but that it inch was . the usual styleli s ogehinus iik4attod.of that .to resist the application. rights of nations have Ile could not conjecture four or five da y s journey. It is the first ti this manner been vime thed • was his intention to hold Ilse-two' offices together.— nature—nateily, that it 'Wet ' hies . Majesty';u plea- what the affairs were which rendered such a measure in olate. necessary ; but when the time arrived, at which a Among nations the least civilized, the couriers if To him ta;r S. 'Si.) ii aptlfarett that the two offices sure" the Ifooseshield atettrit . fe confeseed that . were wholly itelon k patible.—[ffear, hear, hear 1— he should thinkit rather an ungrAlens mods" i f ea _ : disclosure should be made to the House,_ he would 'Ambassadors are re s p ected, and no obstruction g iv ka then be prepared to enter on the consideration of ' to the communications of negotiators with their Gil. To appoint a Gentleman bottling a lucrative office at pression. It was certainly, boaro,vei"j*li* by , • tn• sole pleasure of the Crown, and removablefrom the precedents on. t h e laa rna i a. . li e ki not i isa • hj them. He should feel a difficulty, if his Hon. Friend Torment. I :..k . office the very moment That he might give dims- any means to oppose the adjournment; to Which on ! pressed his Amendment, of supporting it ; for he The inhabitants of Paris might have eapected the 9 . know no instance of the House, when it agreed to . greatest misfortunes, had the enemy arrived at their ,-..ictioli to the Crown, to a high judicial situation, th e contrails, he should ionsent . with O is 'Mina midi ~..s, in his opinion, distinctly inconsistent with that iiess as he 'did to the fait proposition AI abet tiatare.! any measure like the present on the recommendation ' gate", and they surrendered thtir city without do or the Crown, having entered a reason for that com- 'feects- Pillage, devastation, and fir..., would hate - ~• l'OPlldenCl9 of the judicial charm:ter, which it was Nor would he express either diiipPoinlnient Or, s . i:o!.0. met to : preserve inviolate. It could not be out hope, or fear, with respect to the events , that . had plianee on th eir Journals ;as the House had always finished the' destinies of this fine capital. considered the recommendation as a sufficient reason I been favourable .to our enemies The cold is very sharp. This circumstance has • !se knowleege or the recollection of most of taken plate'since their last meeting, or that might be • s Honourable persons who heard him, that early taking Oki* that moment . It was his wish eau- i for its compliance. To act otherwise, would be to ,as it has enabled hi,: Majesty's reign, and on e very memorable tiously to abstain fieni aoy'obsertatiOns Oa the sobs bring on a premature discussion of that which it was ; them to carry On . their artillery and baggage by all ..) .ssisn, his Majesty was pleated to state to Par- ject, reeerviog timself . antil the ptitioa. Whin t*t In . the object of the measure to avoid bringing under ; the roads. Without that, more than half of Oleic t . ; •aient, that it appeared to him that the indepim- formatjou should be alforttekto whichk e, the . ? ouse discussion. He would therefore co n fideen ti rel y, in this; waggons would have fallen into our hands. . ;lice •of the Judges was essential to the Impartial and the Country , looked with casti fi ttisit expectiition:l instance, to Ministers, on that constitutional respect- i •allminist ration of justice, to' the preservation of the But, although he hid no hisitati s pe ieveting for an sibilit y which attached to their situations, and which : liberty of the subject , and to the' 'maintenance •of adjournment, and for an act:Miocene° 4thp elea- at no time they could be more called on to exercise. •.he honour of the grown. He could not think -pre of his Royal IlighneartWiAlNA ...tieeN4'enl iet The motion for Adjournment was then put and' ohatsthase- sac/m.4- etnifiderattens were •atiended to ha•owned that he entertained . some apprehmilsibns agreed to. in the uppoietment of It Geollento to a bigh ja., lest the pieigeee proceedings should - On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the be drawn - into a - . diced office, who, apselsid bare observed, held at pernicious precedent: He was not ' • without his EXCHEQUSR, the time for receiving private Bills N committed to paper for this purpose,' ho hoped be hid so entirely abstained frgin expressing an opi nioncor Any thing like an opinion, or an an t ic i p ation Vithf4espict to public affairs, that he really enter. that the Right Hon, FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Fn. !3.—Het Majesty the Empress end Queen has received the following news, reqpocting ition of the armies, to the 51st of Fe.. • 1 ne . toOk piece at all, be, in reality, protracted till the to elite of April. At the close of the adjournment' proposed would came Passion-week, and then Ftt,ter : so that this adjournment, though nominally tally for three weeks, ices, in fact, an adjournment fou six weeks: He had discharged his duty in stet it.g this. ThiMinistcis miy,ht have given credit to tie pledge ef•lsis4frible Friend, that they would not he interrupted or interfered with by the sitting of :t ;lament, in the prosecution of the important sub j.n which now engaged their particular atteetion.— About the negeciation it might be improper at pre s. •to say any' thing farther than this—that he wi4lied, from thebottom of his heart, that Ministers .might be able to briug that itegociation to the desir able teintination—that they might be able to bring a tone foohdlol on a solid basia,a pence likely to be raving, and otte which would be safe and honour 'able .fer all parties. No loipediment would be :tbiown by him in the way if Ministers its the con dote* 'of this negociation- r -none would have been ti;rown in their way by him, though Parliament hid I.'nfitined'atttittg. • Alntore opportunity would W eer for the full investigation and discussion of the • conduct of Ministers in this respect,. anti he should be niost hippy to find that their conduct had been burl) as he could conscientioWslOpprove and ap phud. •. • Duke of NORFOLK.—It was very possible, that after the close. of the present adjournnient' apother might be proposred. No precise judgment could be at present formed, even by the Ministers themselveS, 'whether a further adjournment might or might not be thought necessary. gut unless they thought it pro bable that Parliament could really proceed to business at the close of the adjournment now moved, it was desirable that they should give some notice to the agents who were concerned in appeal causes. Many of these had, to 'his knowledge, come to tow() al ready in the full expectation that Parliament was now to have proceeded to businesi. In some way or other, notice might be given them before the end of the present period of adjournment, that another ad pursonent 'was in contemplation, in case another should be thought advisable. Lord LI V FRPOOL.—He could of course give no positive pledge now on that subject. It most in seine measure depenttf on circumstances. But' be could mate, that at present it was intended that Parlia ment should proceed to business at the close of . the prevent adjournment. As to the inconvenience stated by a -Noble Lord on the other sideiDerby), from Passion-week and liastar 'coming close upon the pe riod of the proposed adjournment, that circumstance had been considered.; audit was expected that mat.: • tees could be so arranged, that the inconvenience would not be very material. ' The motion was then put, acid carried. The LORD CIIANCE'LLOfs declared, that the 'house was adjourned tilt Monday, the2lst-of March instant. • • tae same time another ollice, very lucrative in its tears, that when the circumstances of the times stature, sod flons hick he was removable at the should not be well recollected, posterity might ac pleasure of the Crown at any moment at which the cuse those who consented to the present proposition, Lrown might thiol; fit so to remove him. 11.'sides, it of an abandonment of their, duty to their constitu • %las -vident th it to place as a Jnr!ge aver the subject ents.—He was aware that, in 1799, an Adjournmettt en Aitornev•Generil. lie whose duty it was to assert of a much longer duration even than that, the ter. ;%lid mailitain the tights of the Crown against thesub- mination of which had that day assembled the' rt, was not the way to insure the equal administra- House, had been proposed, and without t1,.11 of justice. trusted, that in making these cultv acceded to ; but That was at a period of ottservatiotts he should not be understood as intend- the :essiott at which the public business did not j kg any Nog personal or any thing disrespectful to press so heavily as it had pressed during the late ' , tite !warned Gentleman its question. He had merely recess, and wouldneeessarily press during that which done as others had donne before him. An individual was about to take place. Therefore, although he' who stood in the high situation of his Majesty's did not regret having voted for the last adjournment! Attortwy -Goner tl, had a right to exp , ct, and had —although he did not repent having placed the con- It right that the public should extlcet for hilt, that fidence which he had on that occasion placert in his whon any high judicial situation . became vacant, he Majesty's Government—although lut was not dis. .nou!kl he vested with the judicial functions. Gut posed to cavil at the adjournment now propoied, yet . hen he ought no longer to retain his office of At- he did wish to guard the proceeding from being con; sue.-Getteral. lie knew that there was a parti- verted into a dangerous precedent. fie wished to ' it Atso , ney-Griteral for Chester as well as an have some record on the Journals of the nouse, of miry-U.01(1 . 4 for the King; and that in many, the grounds on which Parliament had been : induced • ips iu moat cases, prosecutions might be con- to take such a step. In the words which he had was extended. o private Bill to be read a tint FRENCH FUNDS. Feb. 22, b 6 f. Gc. Feb. 23, foti 1. 50 c. [No minor Papers of the ,Uth of February have been recei'.ed.] Minigt#r of MINISTER OV JUSTICE. 4 5 We, Count Mole Grand .1,,t1 -- - I .:, ige, time after Monday, the 28th of March, and no re- : ! Justice, Officer of the Legion of Honourokedtraell port to be received after the 23d of May. I Cordon of the Order of Union. • - .: ? Considering the letter addressed to us on the Mr. HORNER moved that there be laid before 64 the House an account of the amount of Batik-notes 17th of February, 1814, by >l. the Duke of Vieetr in circulation, from the 4th December, 1812, to Ist za, whereby he informs us, according to the orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King, of the King March, 1814: also for an account of the proceeds of the Droits of the Admiralty, and the payments out of Naples having declared war against France, atid that it is the intention of his Imperial and Royal of that fund, since the time up to which accounts had been laid before the House.—Agreed to. ! Majesty that we should, by a formal declaration, A short conversation then took place respecting ' and conformably with the existing lawn, recal all the sitting of Committees on private Bills during the : Frenchmen Who may be in the civil or miiitary set. adjournment; after which the House adjourned. I v i ce of the N eapol i tan G overnment ; and cottforn.r I ably with the article of the Imperial Docree of the 6th of April, 1809, and the 17th and 1 fith articlo of that of the 26th of August, " We declare,.that all Frenchmen who may n oii4 with or without the permission of his Majesty, he in the military or chit service of the Neapolitan Go vernment, are to return into the territory of the em pire within the space of three months,. to ho reckou edfrom the 17th of February, 1814, and that they shall there be held to prove their return, accordirt; Private letters from Holland state, that Admiral VERHUEILL has fixed a limited time to give up the Texel fleet, provided the country continued in pos. I session of its present Sovereign. He has solemnly protested that he will burn the whole of the ship {g in case measures are taken to compel him to aur• cinder. Sixty Frenchmen are on board the ships for the purpose of carrying into execution any orders of , a the Adudrai for their destruction. . 4.ay 1 / Ties tern heal spill . opt, trthe - uas • Fm env ene ber all - of t tiot • four e j 'bet .04 by - het Ir . AtitV 'Orr TOY 'Eh •iff,bl tib brim on 1 Jest C TrO 'hie ) p ri ' evl i• • 1611 Ge Alt , ~ ~~_~r as S p p by ni • P • a t - II