The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-23 00:00:00

rorrect iaformation coold he drawn from the alleged es• purrs sad imports, as at the time of the Usiou with Ire laud each country claimed the balance of reports i■ its owls lamer. Mr. D. KINN.IIRD was of epiniovi that the ipso* niece in which the country was kept, as to the ants of its debt and revenge, had been productive of mach ads. chief. The rumours afloat, on the subject of the pay ment to the Rank, had dune to lower the rends. Mr. MABERI,T sestet! the money due to the Bank to be a branch of finance, and wits to be paid in order to enable the Bank to return to ettsh payment*. A Patios in the Customs haul hero admitted, from Jalrte October, at which Our distress began to be so seven; and that diminetion was a rtiterion of the state of the ittentr,y. On the arthrle of tea there was a defalcadoo of one million. A ronsidcr.ble diminution had taken place in el:e article of spirits ; and tomes gallons of beer had been brewed in the present veer lose than lit the last. The cal: elation of the Right Hon. Ueatlersan had been too sanguine. The question was then put, and negatived without 'a division. Mr. MABERLY next sieved for an account of all Ex chequer Rills received is payment of duties, from the lit of July to the 21st of December, Ixl9. The CHANCELIASH of the EXCHEQUER moved that the Itlth of October be substituted for the list of December. Mr. MUERISSON stated that the whole account "mild be before the llouse on the s:h of January. The CHANCELLOR of the EXt'NKQCFR would not object to t►e Stb of January being substituted fur the 10th of October. Mr. CALCRAPT observed, that t►e accounts could loot be before the House till t►e smooth of February. After a few observations from other Members. the Home divided.—For the Motion, 30—For the Amend meat, W.—Majority, 60. Mr. MABERI.Y then stated, that he should not press his other Motion. Mr. HUME gave notice, that tomiorro* he should move for an account of all moms in the French Funds, pared by t►e French, at the dispoul of the British Go veronicas, mot applicable to the claims of British sub- I NSW AAAAA II STAMP DVTIPA. I.ord CARTLEHIRAOH mowed the Order of the l!ar for the third reading of the Newrpaper Stamp Du tieti Bill. Mr. fientrot. secontleil the Motion. Mr.l.. LAMB animadverted on the arguments used is Grout. of the Bill. Nu distinction could be drawls be ta izt the author and the publisher. and both would he equally affected by the regulations of the Bill. The whole of the argument of blinisters was sic veto. The Lill would leave ele rich publisher under no restraint, and ictuid only operate ou the poor. No young man of promising talents would henceforth be ahle to undertake o!lterary work, fr•um the want of proper securities; and under such regulations, the genius of • Burke cold') ',ewer have emerged from oliscnrity. After the third reading, he should move that the operation of the Bill be for a limited time. Mr. PRICE, mat (woe.. the Kill. thongh ready to r.q.pot t any lIIPUSUIC calculated to preaerve the tranquil. It of the country. 'lto the part '►lathe to the duty on atAtops he did not °hint, but could not consent to the rent of the enea.nres. Mr. J. SMITH was decidedly averse to the present r:easnre. Nothing. hot the greatest necessity could leatify it. and no :inch necessity had been proved t o ea.tt. At one of thy Mertingt, held a few months back, it had been proposed that no taxes sbonld be paid after the Ist of January, with other resolutions of a si milar wore, and wet the irviividnal who had anovell such resolutions had never hen taken into (moody.— Any liuverentent that tol-rated .uch proceedings must fm; into contempt. Mr. COOPF.II supported the Bill as called for by the state of the country. The acquittal of Hone bad ranted innrh gloom in the room rv, and had engendered a horde of treibblers, who tbmiyht they might in.ult, with ini. imnity, both the established Law and Religion. It was • too.t wise step to stop the progress of the itinerant orators whom l'obbett, in his better days. bad characte rised as the parasites of the people. Mr. CALCRAFT was of opinion, that the euisting law had not been properly enforced. Its 161 r., there bad been no prosecution on the part of the Law I/nicer, of the Cr.swn, though at no time hail more seditious and I.lasplienious piedliestions appeared ; and in the begin sting of. Isl 9, the consietion of Caddo had taken without the smallest hesitation on the part of the Jury : and lie buped the measure would be but tem porary. The Bill was then read a third time. Mr. 111.3INAL, in the ah•enee of Mr. G. Lamb, moved the addition of a Anise limiting the operation of the Bill to the period of one year. Lore. C.kSTLERP..ItiII defended the Rill, as only affecting the eori opted part of the press, and leaving the sound part wholly unaffeeted. Its object was to pro tect the legitimate press of the country. lie admitted, that in this cotumereial country it would be most impo litic to put any Manton restraint on the employment of t pital ; but that, like every thing else, mast to a cer tain degree depend upon the general interests of the state, and must in souse instaners give way to them. Hot ainiost the whole of our commercial transactions de pended on the system security. Besides capital by the Distillers Laws was under restraint, to secure the mo rals of the people. He denied this was any restraint on the general liberty of the press, bnt a mild and salutary execution of the law as it already exists, to restrain, nut the liberty, but the licentiousness of the press.— fie thereto., saw no reason to make this a temper vary measure. No one, on any side of the Hotter, could doubt of the existence of the evil ; and be was sure, that if they did mot provider an instant remedy, they would be defeating the exertions of the moral and peaceable part of the community. The law, however, did not provide accumulative punishments. With re spect to the pupisliiiieut of kaishment, it was proper that a man 0/geoid he separated form that society to ' whose moral and politic:: institutions be radii not re-' ;verde himself. • To say that a respectable bookseller or printer would be liable through inadvertency to this punishment, was to pat an extreme ease. He once more contended, that none of these new in trenched ' upon the fair an•l well understood liberties of the press. It required no pea sagacity to see that if the liberty of the press was to he lost to this country it would be thrdngh tbe abuse °fit, rather than by the act of any sr bitrary Ministers whatever. Sir J. 31AUKINTOSH weeld not follow the example of the Noble Loot, by going into i general examination of the.whole of tile new measures. lie acknowledged, nab shame and sorrow, the numerous publications in culcating the destruction of all religion, said good go verument; but hr insisted that these pablicatious did not owe Their increase to the weakness of the rusting laws. But they Lad not been tried, for no prosecutions had taken plan; and if that arose from a 'opposition that Juries mere indisposed to convict. would (bey he wave likely ao do so whoa the riniabtoest *id be il wd..i V, ,4 ,ft' 1..01e •t. .S 4 increased? In the Blasphemous Libels Bill it was his lactation to propose a clause mom aosnArtely defiling that Mime t sad ondearoar to spare the British press generally from the blasphemous sod seditglos libellers. lie would sow come to the vitalism wont immediately ender diastole*, and is looting at it. he said he felt the greatest alarm at the position of the Noble Lord. that the Bill was in fact no infringement of the liberties of the prem. It would seem that the Noble Lord would hare the Home this Bill, without • -at all wished to strip us of the °ornament. die Aritheertcy, edissitment of the Blaspheme the Magistracy, the Clergy, and the Leaded Proprietors. posed to this due. Stripped of these fair &egress, be would no more re- Adjourned at three o'clock. cognise that which remained as a peop le , than I 6 We lamest to state. that Mr. Thorne, in the course would moraine is Diogeoes's bird th e mon of Are.- of his speech, became so much indisposed, that he was tack. under the necessity of re ti r ing from the Douse. The Mr. DENMAN said, that it appeared to him that if Illnessof the Right lion. Member excited a strong feeling them measures passed the people of this country would 00 all win s() losger be • free people. Wises he said that, be al hided to all orders aid degrees of the State. 3 xlit . 11l was post. OUTRAHE AT MA! Pus - Irvin 6 ' 1/ " . ' Mr. BROUGHAM aid, the Right House Oeatleman 1 THE METROPOLITAN and CENTRAL "Able that they were making any encrillee.—(Hear.)— species of tactics ...._ JONI MITI:EI; lire the satisfaction to annotem that I . 1 Ile would refer them to the preamble of the Bill itself,' Mr. Canning)* in none of a to show that it ' s s a great infringement of the liberties of which he has so often gives an etansple, baring ,M I i n i t:7 4 4 refera i . l7::: sa n :si infr r 'g e r" ( the . 17 . P:0P Orr' f oil ed the speech of his 116 E. and Learned Friend, if amo:ii r ts at present to rather mote than Two T7set t a re s; of the press; he left it with them to say. whether a Hill, having such an effect , was to be Nerdy dealt Pot•NDS. with. It was, in truth, not a little curious to see the nut unanswerable. rather awkward to approach, had nix Ili. !Vet. respectable as I, this amomit. flowing as it has from Prime Minister of the House of Brunswick at the pre- fallen back upon other topics. A hill was passed in thee spontaneous (relin of an inoilted,Natien. the Commit sent day, taking every opportunity of decrying every 1799, not to be named is the same day mho degree, sot ter feel It their Linty to state that it falls shorter the densamis; step of that party which placed the family epos the eve s to be pissed in the same rank as to m , with ' and that increased scathe. and further exertions on the throne.—(Hear!)--Did they so soon forget the services the present Bills, bet which contained a considerable pert of the Friends of Justice and Ilamanity, are r equ i e m of those men who stood by th e m in the hour of danger,' innovation on the law (which if he had been a Member , to eta complete Erect to the publ:e wishes , and secure nue br compe lli ng i s teem to the object in whirls the Committee and the Subscribers or was it the policy now, when there was.* longer teem ! of the. House he would have opp osed ), for apprehension, to cast them away ?—(llear, heir !)—• a ll sa t esprinters to furnish ens care against themselves. I hay' a common interval. This was nut ail. A Right lion. Gentleman opposite They were compelled to enrol their names at the sta z , To prove the inadequacy of the present Fund for itr pur loot in his happy style gone so fur as to call them "My ()s ee , to k eep a co py o f "Ivy paper t h ey r i p poses. it is simply necessary to state that it is already ascer tainedmore , thr s tt ai i i . 4 • B leL d niwr on of ah p e ezzs a b l ;ally womided. and Lords the Wings," and lie seemed to search with great • so that there was never a difficulty is getting evidence industry for any precedents amongst the sets of those ,of the writer, or the person who was responsible ~, . iiENDII IHr es " snit Tlttirrir i of these, many :st . received l' isa .o br a e proscribed Whip, who fur upwards of sixty years hail 1 fur the writer. of evert' libel In each Meta- It I wounds. whirls tnteo their tomes. ofi amgered F re e. for more than three or four years occupied the was however on the efficiency of these measures that he 1 terry, and 'torrid ere disabled fur the r e moind er o f t h e i r benches at the other side of the House. lie lutist, how. :in great part relied as an argument against the present ' lives. ever, on this occasion, look for precedents to a more con- , Bilk. Was it nothing that such an act as that of 1799 : An Inaderieste Contribution of Fire Pewnsts to rat+ would genial source . The Nesbit Lord had said, that this Bill ' had passed—had it armed the Governm e nt with so ttsereAirr Oh; :mist% exhaust the whole Amount of the Sub would not operate against the press, but merely ■gainst I power ?—(Hear !)--Ilet because that Bill had been ; scr ip t i oa; an d it has *mimeo the Committee. that they bare the printers and publishers. He was at a loss to I passed, was it not a strange argument to say that the , not hitherto felt themselves warranted i n disbursing mo re bow t::e distinction could be drawn . lie + ad iI important powers thus granted to the Government , M uti an Fire lli soars Poss for this F inney obj ec t. same, considered them the me , sad th e grea t es t ornaimintt , formed a reason for passing another measure carrying , Nearly FORTS' other persons. the victims of abused Ass. this country ; Milton was of the same opinion, is the : to excess i n d egree t h e principl e of th e fern i er Act, and , thorny. have also claims let loth-mint) on the Committet, work entitled " A Speech on the Liberty of Printing." ' introducieg . besisles a new principle in the legislation of • and "'thew. in the limited state of the Funds, It ha s no t b een This he considered the greatest guard and bulwark to t h e reentry , The night Hon. Gent. bad said, that the, risible to assign more than Tu I/ Il e Nonaa an d F urls our libertito.—(Henr!)--Tbe Noble Lord, who, from Bill would not touch the sound part of the press. lint ""r* the circumstances of his birth knew nothing of the would any bookseller subject himself to the penalties of In the „asran time, sad", s 114'est end Conflattelt oaPems's means by which young men rise to the first places in the Genf., and any printer to 6001. more, for a friendless, and bare expoern the enitlitttre to rris fu.r MAW? NEV E % state by the exertion of their talents, had said that there as was too ofien the case, peanyirss author? The book- i tleiret it P t C: :viCien vi t h t i ll e at h i a lse th ie l e s .i ‘ gh Pa t of rt w 't :LS° ( ha l : 2 ll l 7i I ; . i i ; would be ni. (lit& ulty in the s e per s ons getting securities. sellers who crowded the table with their petitions said b e " felt That argument bail been so ably answered by his Hu- they would not. They had been told often in the course ! In the direction of the LEGAL PaGrEEDINGA the Commie nourable Friend the Member for Westmioster, that it o f Thi s di scuss i on , t h at i t was to the tendency oldie ac- tee fr et it prom to state, that the ~.a l i n n 'i t i e n wise an t was useless for him now to address himself to it. 1/id li ons o f m e n, and tint to their motive that they must goo d men of e n part i es p art i c i pate . to b r i ng th e p er p e t ra . the Stlble Lord forget that it was not of a single work I look • that the intention was evidenced by th e t e nden e y , tors of she literal Outrages at Manchester to sedy Justice , they were now speaking, but of p e riodic a l pub li ca ti o n s; and ;hat they should not inquire further. In the caseof has been tempered and eoserned by the adytee of expert and any man at all conversant is nth the practice of the th e ver di c t s , f o r instance, in the case of Mr. Hone, raced Solicitors, assisted by able ('ounsel. It Is, of course. law, or the verdicts of Juries, must bare known bow a L earne d woon' l es' , h a d r i sen i n th e H ouse a n d sa id Impossible fur the Committee, without injury to the ran.,, tlidcult it was to procure securities, trim amongst the that God forbid he shonlil impute any had motive to in lain+ the) arc impted, to Oeseiope the state and p r „. author's hest friends. This more particularly, if the ; those Juries, but that the tendency of their acts was to' ...n......„Fseas of the proceedings whirls , under ads ire , the) ha:" person happened to be a man of genius, and no other , sap the foundations of our religious establishments. '"'",'";,,' but,i : ti t :T e ars: tim( ran I.4,tileh-li'l claim . s .; : : was worth mentioning. Serb a person would, in spite , Then again, as to the sithscrihers for Mr. Hone after hie I ever; white dais feeling dye dein-moo of . their it person s iesplonsihilits. of hiinself, unless be was a Were slate. he committal", , acquittal (ibouoh. ley the bye, he was ill along 'Pit"! ito the distinguished body of subicribers. for 'shorn ths. himself in each number in sncli a way, as could be ler- ' of as if he load been ronviceol), they were spoken of set, the% hose been desirous, in no respect, to exceed the tared into an offetwe by the law.—(llear, hear !)—There ' in the seine manner as the Juries, being as much bee' bounds of a sound oli,cretion. was, however, a class .if impotent adversaries, uith u horn praised and as sto took censureil.—(A laugh .) — Their; Thi s capoa i l i, a o f F acts w in, i t i s t o h e hop e d, gnome it would he found epsy to deal. In despotic Governments 'm oi re , no doubt, was *charity—a thing almost as sacred **Treasurers or Local nutescrlptians to apprise the Corn there was a species of hyperholical su h serc i ence , width as the verdict of a Jury, but the teudeney of their act i twitter of the Amout Is is their hands. and stimulate the Ite was railed the Asiatic style, hut which he thouoist tight' was most mischievous. In the same manlier he should f *evolve' sod Patriotic, la every part cf the Empire. to pro. more properly he calleil . the despotic style. It was lei the Committee by means %Ail tittle power. consider the conduct of the Ministers ; their conduct, I mote mle:tend the pecon'ar) resources of the nattor- of man to run into arse extremes ; for,when with respect to the pow, had been most pernicious in 1 every' the mind felt indi g n a nt at as act o f the fierernment.l its tenilenev, though Clod forbid he should say any thing At the close of the Subscription. or at any desired period, about which it was afraid to express itself, it naturally, , of their motives.—(.l laugh.)—lle had already mentioss- the Committee propose to submit te the Subscribers a de under the influence of the momentary excitation, took j el to the House some itioanees of the lengthto which tailed areount of the need's's and Exp eoe lit ure . to-comps die other side with as much seal, anti perliar. as "ill ' the licentiou-oose of the luress hail been carried. lie hied Ilrh elid"''innlin they important WT.* / 611 ' 4116 4 thefft . i . 7 , • trig confided o I , i no-slily, as if it had Caviled the first motions without ;bay been t o ld by some, that it has imreilible such things the um ier Th t a l e: i ii tZsCrtio l u t . and t lorIt 4,1 )• interruption. He then adverted to another argument of! meld be w.inen in obi, countr y, lie too should have Aubseriptis•es already aolserti.e.l P 2778 6 Pj the Noble Lord, that the Hill would only operatespinst been inereduloits as 1.• the existence of such se ritinga, i blasphemous libellers. He would ask, what was to he- hut for the es Wetter of his eves. In one of these prel Illineingliam Commis.- ocbseripti..nsfrom New rouir of that large class of printers who were unable to . ductions (Sherwin) the question of resistance was seri- tee , u,: R. Kni g ht ' 19. ramie-upon-Tyne-1' 23 I: s .I•VO 6 A first Subscription enter into recognizances, or what would be the obl a rot °li sl e discover.' under a series of discourses, not eat- &o f t ,. ttoh „ e ,,,•,. from the Friends h. of their hes wising jourtieymen. when the market ail iv t h e ma tt er a• in lova lation. bet applying it as Ist Arndt to a ce.. . ...c.711 16 ' ilumaidt: and L.- been lost for the sale of the.r labour '? —(Hear'.)..-; to the present times, and the present rulers., under Canterbury Indepestil- (miry. in Ipswich said In the end they would he driven to sedi support from the head, " The foly of Petitioning Parliament."— eat cit.0............n o its Tleinity .........10 0 the parish, and be a burtlirn to the community After' It was not in this publication (Sherwin's) alone. that tireonsi Setiseript.on A few Friends. White all the question came to this, would it militate again! I it I Bear. Bride-lane, such ilortrines were to lw hotrod ; there was as infernal from lends . 16 t h e o b j e c ts of the Bill to make it a temporary 'mason'. constellation—[a laugh]--isf such writers—The Cap of Mrs. F. niellIon••• •• ••6 0 1 Fletoo-5treet......... I A He was convinced, if an/ disposition sass shown to con- , Liberty. the Medusa, the 1 inrguti, he. mid surely never Suisse' fissions are recoiled be Mr. P. Bro. he. I ith St-oond; cession on the olive wile, that his lion, Friend would , were mimes better adapted to the things. All mere nut Mr, lh no, Wardour-strect , and tin. Strand; Mr. tiles. 3, not stickle for the precise terms of his motion. If the I alike; the holder tried Ilse way, and when impunity was W:seh--treet ; Mr. Haskell. 131 York-street, Wesrminster ; Noble Lord woold only let it ha in forme fur four or five ; deemed secure by experience, others followed. In ISI7, 11 , 1 '. ra.p h ( ;t: t it It, ",'.`4,-asblreetl-aillk..7.en;ir,'.3renorf Mr. Pea years, that itself would not h e so o bj ec tion a bl e . He there were hut two orithree t in 11•419, 10 or 17.' had sprung ' l . l e . .st-st ) t .r . - Sp r i l t .e al-fh•l s •!7; NI - r m Wooler. 711, Flett- y street ; ai wool.; again ask, would they thus hastfly pass a preen- I u p. The. uestion of assassination %%% then alluded to. s. a v.r. 6.1 toe ()wire of f ,dr .-TAS fait Vs. 191, Siva , I : Mr. Ilarri.. t;. Deli( 'erasure of restriction on the English free press.— li n a n expr es sion " tie bountiful interposition of l'rovi- Norton-street. Portland-road: Mr. Earrowelif. 6 , Fish elear!)—When Lord Grenville broug ht in his celebtated ! d euce by the assistance of John Bellingham." The street-bill, and to. Drury-Noe; at the Crown and 'lncisor Dill fur doing away the right of judication at elections. : question was started in another p a p er , a s t o the manner Tavern, Strand ; and hr the Treasnrer, Major Cartwright, which was a great abuse, it received the benefit of a trial . in which the people, when a Reform in Parliament took 37. Burton-ereseent : Sir Hobert Wilmot. M. P. 47. Charles before the measure was generally applied. Ile did net place, would qiiestion the person who received a mil- street. Beach:l-4quart. ; and Mr. A. Galloway, 66, Hi : sti mean to say that this It as a of little consequence: lion and a half fur tioinginothing ; " whose office was, by I Hatboro. bet when viewed with rega rd to t hi s , i t was ei , mpara- . the rule of the l aw , e x ec ut e d by deputy. - In another i Subscriptions incorrectly elated win :.e immediately icor- Beek• amino'. importance. Would the House then, in ; instance, on the occasion of a nientorable death, which meted. on application to the Seen nosy. tat the I town ant license which was the stay of our liberties, and which i he thought had united all the country in a common sot-; Anchor Tavern. any day betweiro Mesta and Two o'clock. had contributed to make dais country the envy and the • row (that of the Princess ( barlotte), the writer instill- . admiration of the world—woulsl they hesitate only t o . pate d a di spute d suc , ss i on , an d di seussei l th e qua lifi es - MAILA ass, DI 1 . slake an experiment ?—(llear. hear 35—T00 little ergs- lions of Monarchs . We had, lie said, experience that a , tt , min went, it appeared to liilll, hall been used to make the 1 Ki ng m i g h t h e a fool, an d an idiot; th a t th e mote au- I Gu e rnsey I measure palatal& to the country. Its the instance of . pr i ne ipled the man, the better the Sovereign ; that he 0 (i„mwy and Jam, . the Seditious Meetings' Bill, as that had for precedent . oug h t to b e a v ill a i n , or t h e monarchial establishment I ti o n sis n urg n ' 0 an Act of 1793, it was not so necessary to ..Pailif, it , lust of England would fall from its reputation.—(llearl) U Ilsinbureh 9 with re;:aril to this 13111, as no ialriugeotent hod been ' On Sept. :lA. 1%1 4 , another subject was treated uf, " ill.- made Oil til , ' liberties of the press since the time of Wil- servatitins on the Murders to he committed at thee Old Ham the 3d, some plausibility at least shoald he terra 1 Bailer," meaning the trials for capital 'deuces at the to :lir present measure. The Moo. Member then cots- 1 Sessions. 'file world was not left in the dark as to what eluded, by accounting for the inutlention to the liberty t h e wr i tes thought of she Jethro ; " The keine, on the of the press in the Bill of Rights, by 'stink that there - Ilene+ it ill not Nil to say," tee. Vet this man, whether DO notice was taken of any thing, tut the abase of pre- I prosecute) or no, had been brought to trial ; and rogati• eon the part of the Crown, and that in fart the Ile Isla, there was nut even one information. Front measures which afterwards took place so favourable to these extracts lie felt that the observation of his Learned the press, were entirely in the spirit of the Hill of ' Friend was pet feetly justifiable, namely, that no new laws Rights.—(lle sat down amid loud cheering from both s h ou ld b e enacte d to i nvest t h ose withnew powers who sides of the House.] • had so eoregiously misemploved the powers which Is. Mr. CANNING thought the whole of the lie.. and longed to them according to the old laws of the land.- 1 Learned Gentleman's argnuients would go to oppose 1 For with those powers, which were quite sufficient for sort of regulation regyeeting the press. He a the suppression of evil, they had allowed the pahllego that it was matter of regret when any restraint wee lion of works in f of blasphemy. setlitioet s ond gee foun.! necessary to he placed on any portion of the sassination. To prate that they had overlooked the Mos liberties of the community ; lint such restraist was disguised preaching of the doctrine of assassination, the sometimes DeCraMill to be Placed on, a part. with a vim Mee. and Learned Gentleman read on extract from Sheer to the protection of the whole. It hail been said, when win's Register, of last spring, distinctly slating, that if the press was regulated in 17119, that it would prevent any one of the confederacy, as the writer called it, of the exercise of genius and talent ; but no use mild say Kliegs and Tait-gatherers, should attempt to annoy time it had that effect ; nor that it had suppressed free caw people, it would he lawful. to pot bile to death, with sass of all the measures of Parliament, or fair and open sword or pistol, with dagger or spade. Yet this publi discussion. His llononrahle and Learned Friend had cation was entirely overlooked by those faithful, active, drawn an animated picture of a young man eateries, equal, and just tors of the laws, who never re-' like himself and his Honourable Friend. on a career s l aked from Parliament so much additional power.— of literatnre, to which be looked up as his only pro* Snot the legal agents of the Crown overl oo k e d, th e pees in life, and stopped on his outset ; brit he world Learned Gentleman took occasion to contrast with what say, that the history of literature did not bear him out they had prosecuted. Forinstanee, about eight or nine la that exiseetation. Ile slid not believe there was ever 1 yearn ago they prosecuted a paragraph in a newspaper, I a period when booksellers were more disposed to *pea a *bogeying that the Prism Regent had a glorious pros-1 trey to the young aspirant iii literature. Bat the hook- ; peet before him by adopting certain measures; but, in -1 sellers most, like the rest of the community, take their i stead of first preceediug against the paper is cinch I leltare of the inconvenience which must be horse for the this paragraph originally appeared, they prosecuted a I good of the whole nation. He was convinced the Muse paper into which it bad been copied; and this ' had heard nothing to make them enact this Bill as a was acquitted to the satisfaction a the entire Coarl: temporary measure. The pnaishment of banishment eluding the Judge himself. was not unknown to our law; but if it had never exist- We regret that we &reusable to give the conclusion of ed before in this country, what danger could there be la Mr. Brougham's able speech, as well as the of exiling a man who sought to destroy the country and Messrs. Plunkett. Tierney . and the Aftonseyro ches eral. constitution which hid - cherished his ? The press had The House hating d ivided, thenumbers were— gained a great boon within& Pew years, namely, thesis.. lition of the punishmesit of the pillory—a puoishment For the datum far more severe and degrading than banishment for any Against it length of time. It was said that they ought not to drive Majority against it . 11111 the people to despair. What were the people?— a com munity formed of fair orders end degrees. But the After a few words from Lord CASTIMIZA4III. Ilfr. writers sad orators who prostituted the word People, BIU/Valail, Mr. W. SWIM and Mr. Cowman., the AIM Pt' r. to I lol!ind Fa alders . 0 France 0 Malta PRICI.: OF STOCKS TIII lank 8614 *l4l 113 Jt pet Cent. (MUM per Cent. (%.nl. Si per Cent. 73 4 per Cent.. 6 tort Vent. \sly Long Men. Ilf Insp. 3 per Cent. inn. I).11• .IT ONE O'CLOCK. India ii•ori, Ditt.. a. n. 14 ts. Ss. dig. Oil iLlllllllk4 Ex. Bills, Sd. is. Vs. Ss. dig. Mtn irons. Onsnitnurn Cons. Am 3e. 681 671 654 571 I.olt. Tickets t 119 IS ete Lstattlman. (N.B. lug "BRIM!, sr.i TATI.V.I N" t• IN • rs, Toss MT.1T6331.1N.") LONDON: THORBD.►Y, DECEMBER 23, 1819. The Paris Papers of Sunday contain the address of the Deputies to the KIND. It expresses their thanks to his Majesty for hacks( effaced the traces of civil troubles by acts of clemency and conciliation ; it proceeds to state, that the people are enemies to the factions which agitate the State, anti that they only aspire to the peaceful enjoym nt of the blessings of a legal government. It concludes by as suring the King, that the Hepatic.s will continne to de fend his august dynasty and the public rights, anal to give to all the interests guaranteed by the Charter, that security which alone can insure the happiness of his Majesty, and the prosperity of France. llis Majesty retuned an appropriate and gracious Answer. French Funds (Saturday) Five per Cents. 69 f. Mc. There is no blow which tyrannic Kings or Prisms, or despotic Alinisters, can strike so fatally against liberty as the subduing their subjects in the name of law. This is the system practised at this time by oar Court and Cabinet. If the late Lord CMAT• HAD were again alive, be would think our Legisla tors were all mad, or strock with. the Mal of THE STATESMAN. A • se