The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-03-26 00:00:00

• •••••"": »ye ent Yorke fram peeferring a Bill of In- sided o w a rii o c oom hew. against M. Jews for this same port of a„‘• oe '4. 111 euopese, that any twelve lotolol men be ' stile A could be had to find a sertliet of Guilty, slid, 'th Gets h , he o onishe.l mice fir the same offence I He the Col • e 34 :" - f ate iciloo, because he use the cos H ta not Lawyer " nrose ot, -oh.' mo rd of r h Corner Sentence I becaawse Cision of 0 0 1 nun of Record, therefore incapable, by eau ben • , ‘t aco y of the vetoed; bec a use the LOT does In Osele to erg anttskterotine any ratite. To de- Precede lu-i- p soot its limits, a. hal 11 been strewn : incapa- fore; y, poised by the legal circumscription of its Argonie FrOin WS. ~Ine....detis).oyp)tpese that a Jury can find no injury to have for aco yur kt., aid should tettlfll a verdict been use ` 4 ' l " 4 "` Is will Jones have been WO- not cunt ` ll4/ • I Pn the' mote severe punishment short From Ac" o bymon lav hat ot indefinite imprisonment, Stabs. ft o „, e i•f Coturnoto, for having done :u, for fore of ole Itobe a crime; on the contrary, which will prisonai %et et: vci froallo e by a Jury of his equals, not to have And, th a a deuce, a• hi the case of Reeves ; ith whom the has bee miderly by him his creature, the shown, t" dean ni of the L o w; when a Jury contradicted by their legal vene all ;he predetenuiaed Judean:at of the House of Corn- this usu .; but, if a Jury sere lotto the saute, In the present case, of Parl l a se, reuld have no reme ty for the terrine done to hint to the ti ..,00t brio; his ;idiot] .for tato. imprisonment against tertaint nor iteaiast the ?louse of Col iiiiii moo nor the Ser- Kota Arn ii, nar the Sheriffs, nor the Jailor : that is tri grog o ;e o ourt-of Law skould tall him, as they have told in a pi, toretufore, Rat they could Dot interfere with the whichthereto • or Commoio , I ‘ 1,,0, t.) lore this Crier thoroughly comidered, and to legal n satinet to fin ite a doubt on at to the true character of not atte -oboes llouse of Commons, we will suppose ment w o a f go Yorke took this method,' by calling in the 1 grarh of Privilege, of punishing Mr. Jones, :to the act keep•su iiroperly co„mizable by a' Court of LaW. To this is tinily , :m „lool, in the first place, har if out act is not cegni- tempt 1 o Coot of . Lew, no ugeoce has been committed Witte ei e uit iohraott is at Insole to do every thine, not Lem as .• ow by 01011 V. Bet, tat hasWeemlreed. libtlitraweit shay O 'Jr. yak?, if aggriev , AI, had his remedy by due course answer oc co of lass ;at legal Bill of isolictuient has been meanie 14. b; atiother Member of the Mouse of Commons of aCr ' j t. s eon-nett against Mr. Jones, as the author of a move. odoftsimitir tia:are (ins itiag discussion), mid found by a Cour flosiJary : And, io the eveutJoues's being con- ant out hyjm, there is nothine to prevent Lord Castlereagh poratb o h o of a Bleach of Prisitele after Mr. Jones has the Ar rov e die limited sentence of the law, and gettine him are iie o 1 by the Howe of Contusions to an unlimited Omni- candid ire eye same uh'ence. Mr. Jones eitnent plead his that 1 • turd thous - hhe may procure the reclird from the such, r rut "f lee where he w tiscoovicted. The Home of Clllll. teary e el n e t receive it ; so that he may be punislie,l. once attic. tow; the House of Commons coatrary to law, and by mined flef 10,fielotenl accorilitie to haw—sari again,—by Ili I sent of o s aiontent hy the Inw, and by Vote of the II owe ot Corn- of the ultiot :al law, ail fir the sense effeuce, fur the legal verok S itruboule Aeration of Cie life amen. the t •• o'or's Wairalit (if it eats be called by such a imLirj . ,)•••. o,srb his nee. set out at leogth, commits Mr. Jones cads Owe Ow plooure• of' she II of Coininoas." It has of lie ••I;ltsti, teat a Oiwful seamed shentil is-ne from lawful preve et-ien to Idol cause, and 'timid have a woo voi r e ;Winn. A *maker-oil the Home of Commons is and d !apt Mogiaratro-his Warraut essigto libel—is not libel he ha, ;;,;,l e ? Out it noiy he peetOteled, that the Culprit has the '1 triol n oteorlefonvot ais is .a Warrant in execntioa. *bort .1 Ibrouit i.l eat:cation by a Speaker of too House of and I A gee ow a teieroce of inierisondwat!!! for a month own as tomato —or year—er seveo years —or (Or a day As hour! Let not the people *link that this field; rot 1:L:011'614 hecause. Chit tae facts stated are thee .Or oliOle. The House Commons, that does not duct .istl to a ei gat •!f committing any . pe rein for custody, re•es, time( issr—rot noist upatr and exercise the power of passing of .mgr of ialvi 4:omega, daring Ow pleasure o the ford . to .• delivered by due cause of law" f nor tunit orterer 13 W." For wOat la* is lie team...leer ? for my 11 0.1/It , ow :titled ? Or, is the alledged offence of so In :owe name ae to pothole the eupoosed offender from in in oi Ile ai'ot law can he be 'delivered ? To wliatlaw can P O ll a 1 .p.0. What is tae term of his confinement? nied. "'Noes the oiOasura of the Howie of Cool:no:a." they ai*is an Luelis:Orin outlawed; put out of the protection thee tleKiee''slesebe order of the Hou"e of Common", who to st c eceli t uly hound to Freese and defend the Liberty of the T Oert.—llie House of . Commons, which is no court ; get thAeallont Ale; %hid: t)sc law torbilit to pes toy Jude- Beet est; whica (undo, atbaimier 11141 Oath; which cannot take IT N • sue v 1ep,.:re4:,, , , I.kx, foe the listst of all reasons, 1w- But - !PLivi is r+ uff Coort; - 'nor allows it any N o peter, as truistmeis defieitise sentence. frog he, it is toity adatir itile, how consistently the HOese of coma* hasucted througloott the whole of this Case, al- v dd, tesiteaserine its praceediegs by the line of its own iliscre ee - bit instead of the galtlee torte vlsrd of tile Law—a principle, AZ eiek if glace admitted-soul:int - led 11 if slot reprobated, apd belt eked, the inevitable coiSecroonce will be, the total setwer- bry Orafall Low anti Order. For what Matted the distinction g oe coca state of Liberty and a ,taie of Slavery, but being out *druid priareted by knew)) laws common to nil, or he- toil nonii?rl lei variable, Arline:try, and uncertain tti,critiloia. aria seevitos est, u4i jut est niquot, arrl ielegoitu.or Trwited is the Slavery of Ito lives ender uncertain ' l. ' roc harm ! If the Jtdges of the Laws of England In tier days of Lord lii. thought so justly, and acted No firmly and decidedly in Ire OM ease, so have we witnessed in our time, how acutely int toned Judge of the Civil Law, Sir William Scott, call wig felt; ellen even a presumed itijurious suspicion is thrown out, I to; mugh an puaishineot has been indicted upon hint without tit Mai Of a f air defence. And here it is imposeible to avoid re- marine, how tender-Ahmed some menage upon being touch- . V at rtheraselies! how susceptible their feelings! how tremb- nil alive to the slightest annoyanc e I The Learned Civilian 111, Mt oohing for poor Jones, sent to jail Without trial, without cb =opportunity of melting his defence. His own words will lot expreas his feelings oo the occasion alluded to, which le tam a charge brought forward in the House of Commons, to le lord Cochrane,' any mast wortby colleague, against the o f feet ehrre the Learned Civilian presides, wisest he said: " That the accusation was brought forward against the ea "Court where be presided, when there was no passibility of• thusallowed to inieend for Gouty monies over st ► she head of the Court, o teen cawed out demand its trial, and T "sf covrie could not ward off a aiust painful and deprecia- pt tie: suspicion ; this waits modeof proetedine which could hi ILI be sulticiertly deprecated, nor too s.weeely reproved. 'l.l ' It lots placing it man in the, situation of a supposed cut - Is " lull, io whom every guilt was likely to be presumed, aad " loot whose society every inisoccrit matt was ready to tly, tl " 'named by society, cut off, and in a Manner e ecommo • t . " "'Mot, 'be inigiat in the rod appear completely guilliess, "414 prove by acquittal. th. , t hie wily misfortune was (.1 lot being alkowrd, us time, rill • opparlunity of defence. - Noe itneawlia; the malty of this, many *ewe were to be e " frond anxious to bring forwaol an unfounded olemation, "ad the world, in general, was but too prone to Oa "Ivey- . " hon. lie deplored costes, and deprecated its cane- I " more; and he did so the melee enreestly, feeling acatolY t ( ieinstzet in hit awn ease." And, in these feetiogs the I t "Mt oat COMILIOTIII syrnpathisterl. It cte . eplains in the style of' tee Civil Law of being ex - tO:onunicared.• Mr. Jones remonstrates in the language of i ' 'Ne Law of Enelood against. befog outlawed, without having . lisofierd gall.;of any mune. RilmaoSotirist, when lashing the vices of a corrupt rs"try, partirularly itobraids the absence of feeling, gen,- II rtCt eshitsited fut the stoteritig. of small men in humble sta- I VT: . The poor man may lore his gootls oad all eggs elreetb. r , .!1 his house be harried to the groni,.l, no one troubles koolf teaaat it. But, if misfortete touches the Cleat, then, .all partake of the general sorrow : " rturii recidit dom is, " T.ltic petition eases urhis ; tow rolt • tenes iraer." Pnco Cadres excites no sympathy : " flut if the unlace of Arturitis burn, ' t 'I ctionge their clothes, the matrons mourn, 'fhe City Prretsir welt no pleadings heat ; 'Ph. ye-. 'same of fire, we hate and far; And loek aghast, waif the Gaols were here." , es hereFrnai the cenviction on my mind of the jeatnen of the sen- l u n e e t i expressed Lee the Learned Jeder ; and front as oet, "on! and fall/ (Wetted an opinion as my researches me to Snake, :tad ray reason inotrucool ow to farm, I ti t c prised in the House Cementite :•' Twat Mr. Gale Jones Linslit be then ilischir e e ro. _,posi •;• ' ton to these ergnmente , it war, in the first place, " 4 las That tail tra ewer of Coiiitmeet had be en eEer- 'Ned for thr ee Modred year,. 1 i 611:// p 011 of wich astefrion, i h ' n ri lv a l_7o noose uces were adduced. One of Ferrara, a wiem- a_Wresit L. to the kiiet.obefore cited; mid one Mionine- ""n newt No• Joiromi, a member, and pleaded . igno- r a"cr of h twine . Mcintoo of the House of Commons'o. But of at importance 1111? these two Cases? For their own 7,'!• .4.,.en weie t, they ever 911 mimeo:as. can never be admitted as ancr ogoablish teem ma is et::arte. Sir Thotras Bronx 4 3 1 - a ' e l s enn.. r in th, role: , I:lizabeth, (Jellied that their Id hr cited as Pveriolrats. worts they were in- !Wien, . • • , . on by a Committee of the Home as priors In sap of their claim to a privilege of net being liable to mltimenaed in Chancery. —Sir Thomas Bromley that unless those precedents had beet confirmed by ourt of Chancery, they were of no heal' •• and all . 16 1111/111 that a legal precedent is establishe d a de if all the Judaes, on tut Argument at Bar. Nuthing more mischievous or more calculated to mislead, than *gal terms in a popular sense; and though the word locos in polluter lauguage means any thing that went be , yet, in a strict legal sense it scenes a Derision upon rgineent.sane of which is worth a thoossuid without. From Cantons or Usage such a claim never can be set up s custom to obtain must be reasonable Itself; must have I used from time immemorial ; must be pro bo na contrary to law, and never contested. Commuil taro it cannot be derived; because at Com ivr, a man could not be imprisoned in any case, tailless :ce or violence--fur whicla his body was subject to int isonasent, its one of the highest executions of the taw. ' that it is forbidden by all the Statutes, it is to be hoped :ea su'neir•ntly provell. Therefore, unless it can he n, that an Order of the House of Commons can contra all these Anatorities, there can be no pretence on which usurpation can be miiiitaineal. And to talk of the Law aliament as comer:oi isanished from and contradictory Acts of Parlimintrat ! —lt is a phantom fitter to be ru ined by the fancy of a BeJlamite than by a Lawgiver. Withstanding the care that has been taken hi the pro of this Inquiry to keep legal words taiim being used . popular sense, anal to prevent a confusing of ideas arising actions, it will be necessary in this case to adopt the made -1 1 has been lovuri.-hly pursurd,and to define correctly the meaning Of the term ahem to be discussed. For, by trading sufficiently to this distinction, much embarrass w.as created during the furnier discussion of this subject t House of Conn iiiii ts: few persons having been able to 'sufficiently separat., things, in their nature, so esseo different, as the pow. r of tonimitinent for alto! Can t (or &retention of a Nuisance), and the pouting of a stol e imprisonment as a punishment for an (seance. eery one knows that in popular phrase a man is said to ilaiwaneamegt far mailer if he turn upon his heel and do not Ter a salute : fiuf,7li* Ifleant Neto - "Onalleitsprnena nee lag, and one only — that obstructi on ' to the proceedings mu, which. every. Court is necessarily competentto re . " Contempt isa disobedience to the rules and orders of al. One may be punished for a contempt in Court, but it, or a private abuse." W nether the Cute of the [nega tion of St. Albans, which has been accurately stated, and arguments of the Judges in Bridgman versus Holt are or ant applicable to the case before us, must be left to the lid consideration of titelleader.-slt is necessary to observe. I lay no sts , ass upon the authority of the JudAes merely as recollectiug full well the many Opinion's of Judges con to tile Law of the Land and subversive of the Liberty Subject. In the case of Ship Money, the Judges dwe lled, that the King had a right to levy taxes witmiout eon ,of the Kepi-cm: natives tlie People. lathe famous case the Habeas Corpus, in the Keig's Bench, afterwards re tersed, the Ju d ges determined , that when the King committed, - Subject could have no relief. When Charles the L'trst „Jauted Members of Parliament fur their Indian:sent .ry conduct, the Judges determined, that the Act of the atumte henry VIII. was a private Act,aliougli elf expressly to rent members from being (me:Ahmed, in consequ -nee of air. mroud having been questioned iu the Court of Stannal les, fined and imprimned by brat Court, on account ui a Bill mrd introduced into the Mouse of Commons for regulating Timers in Cornwall!. Therefore, it iar not upon tee au ihority, but 'moo the weiilit of the arguments above cited. holiest arguments they were, of unfitted Couusel io their came, that we rely. As for Modern Decisions of such men as De Gray, Mans field; or Kenyon, they will hardly be worth gaining on et side of the question : and, for an illustration of the con _. of the last mentioiwa Judge upon this great seonstitu alma question__, beg leave to refer the Reader to the Cure of lienjanais Flower, and to the able Argument of Mr. Clif ford in that case • to which A ratiment e mbrace this oppor mita? of acknowledaing waself greatly Waned; and so, in my opinion, are the public at large. In pursuing this Argument, the Reader should carefully keep .n mind the marked distinetion there is between Pi - ivilege and Power. No Privilege of the Houses of Commons is here de lied. But, it may be asked, tip .n what grimed or pretence they assume apo wer to plash ? Since (hey have taken upon themselves to exerc:se tat' power, it is fair to call, upon tnem A she* bow they came by it, and when they him clammed it. The commencement of this ucsurpation was when t . sy get rid of the upper House of Parliarn'eut, and cot of the head of the King. They still, it seems, are ensholdened to retain an illeg al power not pretended to even by the King. But which thse Weal stiscreigns oveathe. King, claim &sof right. Bat no wonder, wilco they have so entirely departed from thdradi Ofthetrinstitielie.-na ima.affexed. ved by Mr. Maddoeka, and acknowledged by them selves, in the never-to-be-forgotten Morning of the 11th of May, one thousand eight hundred and uiue; when, from being the Lower or Inferior (for it is the same sense, one beipg 40 English the other a Laths word), Branch of the Le gislatore, they have become the pimprietors, by burgage te nure, of the whole Representation; and, in that capacity, inflated with their high blown feedlot ideas of majesty, miff tricked out in the trappings of royalty, thiak Privilege and l'rotection beneath their dignity, Assume the Sweatt of Pre rogative, and lord it equally over theKiug and the People But, in order that nothing may be wanting, to render truly ludicrous every part of this proceeding, which, invert ing the laws of the drama, as well us all other laws, begins ith a Farce 'and ends with a Tragedy, the. House of Com ions imprison Mr. Jones—wider the sanction of what law think ye?—Toe Bap. or Itscires!!! , --Well might Paine call it the Bill of Wrongs, it' it coati be thus converted in to an instrument to oppress and to destroy the Liberties of the People, those Liberties which it was expressly framed, claimed, demanded and instated upon to protect. Mr. Yuilte has discovered a new meanin g in the Bill of Rights; and, because the Bill of Waists declares, that a member of peril:lntent cannot beapiestioaed any where out of parliament for words spoken therein, he has sapiently concluded, That the People are prohibited from exercising their understandine, for the purpose of discussing or cen suring the conduct of the Gentlemen who sit in that House. These Gentlemen all cotienrred with him in the Sentence passed on Mr. Jones; though no one agreed with him in his new interpretation of the word "Question," in the Rill of Rights—knowing as they did, that "otientinned," legally, Indus aceused nefore a tribunal competent.to pu nish; and that the power Weeded to lie counteracted AM the King's Prerogative and the arbitrary proceedings of the Com t of Star Chamber, which etre in the constant habit of questioning nod punishing Members, for their cruiduct in the House, as in the Case of Mr. Strode before mention ed, ant/ of Strickland, Sir 7ohu Eliot, Col. Churchill, Valentine, anti many others. And, surely, that cannot be deemed a Privilege of Parliament which is incompatible with the Rights 'of the People: as the Lords resolved in the • Cate of Ashby and White: " That declaring Ashby guilty of a Breach of Privilege of the House of Commons is an unprecedented attempt upon the jurisdiction of partizans at; and is, in effect, to eubiect the law of England to the ve ~ --- of the noose of Commons n"Anml how much more s is this act of imprisoulng Mr. Jones! Bat the House, it mimes, thinks that its &testily is con- craned in continuing -Mr. Jones is prison. That dignity should consist is punishing is a novel idea, • The dignity of any man or body of men is best maintained by their do ing their duty, according to their nectar stations. If dig nity consisted in ponis hhb would Jack Ketch be 51- • lbid 96.--+ let Ciank, Elia. 649. t Sir Robert %Volpe* teems On bjpae entertained the tame sentiments, as appears frost Ilia .perch in the bole of Commons, in the case of Sir Richard Steele, hi 1714: " Why," said he, os slfould the author be an " swerable in Parliament fur the things which he wrote " in his private rapacity ? And it be is punishab l e b y la w , is " why he not left to the law ? By this mode of proceed- " leg, Parliament, which used to be the scourge only of " evil Ministers, is made by .14liairters the scourge of the " sa tei lZt. An former reins, the audacit of corruption es- 1111 itself on ly to Yu g dges and Juries;y the attempt to to " degrade Parliament was, till the resent period, ueheard " of. The Liberty of the Press Lt fl aresteatned; how then " shall a part of the Leesin_ture dare to punish that "as a cr ime which is wit - declared to •he en by soy law, 66 . framed by the whole l And win shitald that Mune be " made the l> rumens of such a detectable purpose." ._ See Craze's Walpole, rot 1. p. 73. See also 6 Cobbett's Rid. Hist. 1969. 4; 6 Cobbett's Pad. Hist. 431. 1j -,-1 4' • : I Lord . Clarendon observes , " That • .the damage and mischief cannot be expressed,. that the Crown and State sustained lvy the deserved reproach and Infamy that at tended the Judges, by being muds use of is this and like ' acts of power, there being no poisilsility to preserve the dignity, reverend* and estinatio I of the laws thernrelves, but by the iutegaty and innocency of the itiges" . . tth stitiSMAß:_ He is here " First as I an his subject and his kinsman— " Both strong against the deed—then as his host 44 Who should against his murderer shut the door, " Not bear the knife myself." 2:1;7 4 most dignified mall la -tire -1 Out sibs Oantaises do not sit in that House for their • .y, ;mat as &wants of the People; not to exercise *valise and Power over them, but to inspect and contrpoi the Public Accounts, to prot , ct Libeity and Property Vtw ma - plain of exorbitant: ces of Power in any quarter; aid to maintain the Laws of the Land. They are the last parsons who ought to sat ass 4 example of encroachment. 41 they b ecome destreyees Of: the Liberties of the People, iu them, oppressioa is com bined with treachery : they destroy where they are bound' to protect. Every reason is as strong against such an act, from them towards the People, as. it was against Macbeth in the murder of Duncan. " "'e is -'iu double trust, H•vino now arrived at a conclusion of the Argument upon this most interesting and important case, one can not, iu taking leave of the sulYect ; in reviewing the whole of the proceeding complained a ; in beholding an ostens ibly whose sole business it is to make laws, and to watch over the due execution of the laws already made; one can not, with such impressions in ones mina, help entertain in; a fear, the the Gentlemen of the House of Commons, may, in time, unless they revert to the Great Principles of the Constitution, be in danger of incurring the sentence of St. Paul upon the insolent aid tyrannical High Priest, who had commanded him to be stricken fur opening his month in his own defence :—" God shill smite thee, thou " whited wall: For sittest,then to judge me after the Law, " and commandest me to, be smitten contrary to the Law r Upon 'this memorable Debate, Mr. ,Ponsonby, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, under the Whig Administration, ob served, "That he could not consent to proceed against indi. " viduals, because that had been proved to exist, which .04,611.46.0—beestag,paptilati.4, as the Sun it noon-day ; 44 namely, the Sale or — Seats in that Houite7 "Ster Coblnn's 1 Debates, vol. xiv. p. 519. And in a Committee of the whole House on the Ist of 1 June last, upon Mr. Curwen's Reform Bill, the Speaker made use of these expressions : " The question now before "usis no lass than this: Whether the Seats in this House "shall be henceforth publicly saleable—A proposition, at "the sound of which, our ancestors would hare startled " with indignation; •but a practice, which, in these .days, 1 " and within these walls, in utter oblivion of every former " maxim and feeling of Parliament, has been miffed and " justified." See p. 837 of the same Volume. ' LONDON :. • - —err. ' MONDAY, HARMS 26, 1810. • ___..... . Tut' Power' of Imprisonment at pleasure, as. settled by the House of Commons, is a subject so highly important to PERSONAL LIBERTY, that we I h e artily concur with Mr. CORBETT inviewing 1 the admirable LETTER of Sir FRANCIS BUR- i i DETT to his CONSTITUENTS, and• the sub. se.quent " Argument," as forming en article 01 '1 's far greater importance than any he ever I " before published." Viewing. it as such, we deem apology to our readers (inner:emery, for, pro. seUting it entire, unneitilatcd, and accompanied with the excellent and mealy' ObservatiOnt 'a . Mt~" Xm1u11,22 bitaself. . • We cannot too forcibliTtiFie oitr itced attentive perusal of this important Paper" for," to Use the . words. of Sir FRANCIS BURISETT ", Talk as long as we will *bout Rights, Liber " ties, Franchises, Privileges, And immuni. 66 ties—of what avail arc any, or all of these ac together, if our persona Can, at the sole will and cc comntaiut of nag man, ,or sex or MEN, be " seized on, thrown into prison, and there kept, " d.tring the pleasure, of •that man, or set of " men ? !!!" —,....-- A Gottehbergh mail was received in town this . morning; together with German Papers of. the l'itl instant. The former is barren of intelligence. FrOm the latterive have made extracts of the mist' interesting communications: " Pants, MsaCtt 18.—The King of Wevr. PII4LIA and the Prince of Benetton arc arrived in this capital. I • ' I " The Emperor and King has ordered the In. Bisectors of the Imperial kitchens in future not to ,make use of any other sugar than that of grapes, .. 64 General BONNET has notified from Oviedo, Under date of the 18th of February, that having received . intelligence that the insurgents in. tended to attack him with a very stoperior force, in order to dislodge him from his post, he attacked unexpectedly their van un the 14th, and routed them so completely, that the pasitige of the Note, by the bridge of Collate, of which thoi h a d rendered themselves masters, was restored. ;On the 15th the enemy assembled again near the bridge of Pen. natter*, bitt.sustairted there another defeat, and :wile driven back to the frontiers of Gallicia.— * (Rotterdam (;atettc; March 22.) ",./Litsvraeasi, Matteu 19 . .—The Supplement , of vie Royal Courant of. this day contains the qullowing important article :•-• 66 ACcording to official accounts received from Fariti v it: Treaty was signed on the 16th instant, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of hie Majesty the King, and his Imperial and Royal *jetty the i tlinperor of the French .and King of Hely, by. which' (with. the exception of settle unavoidable wr ieFee) the existence and integrity of the king dom of Holland are .preserved." The same ac count states; thee -Ails MAJESTY Intends, iminedi. 'Oily after the marrieee of his august: brother, to .. tettiin to -this cutintry.—(Rotterdam Gasstte,. March Wt.) • 66 lIAMBURGaI, MARCH 15.--Onthe 13th inst. a Roil Manifesto was 1-sued in Berlin ) accerdin t • . , ,- •••• to which, from and alter the beginning of ti.is month of July of this, year, no ship's illieh set sail• from any port in Europe shall be a d mitted in'o lany Presiiiii heibeni," the cargo el Whisk consists' of any other gocids thin thOie whiCh tirelirip;ohi. bited according tollii picietii Contieeetal iiitein: , .. .. , .• . + 0 All East and West bubo preducefoued on bolted : of such ships shall immediately beeotskseated, the .. s e •-- . ..Importatlen of tho like iTinitiodltiel belnk only ... _ permitted on board of ship s 'Whichset 'isill freiri ' • •...., . .., 1. a•! .. if. ports of America, destined direct • f0c.41 rrtIPSWn . harbour, or from such pieta of the. East toad 'cot • - Indies as are on terms of amity - with France.'- i ' " It is Said, that with the consent of nimbi', 4. certain empirc is cro long to titidi4o,•ii• Very Int:: . '," portant change. It is 'dot ;epoeteti, Alai -the ~ Archduke Frew NA . N n, brother of the Empress- of .. AUSTRIA, is snots to lead to the hymeneal altar, a . Princess or the most . illustrious Hoisio in Ger- inany.—(llordricht Gutette, 2(1 March., ", COPENHAGEN, MARC!! 4.—According to our ~ Commercial Gatette, 126 ships eriiired in Too, ningen from North Anierlo, from thine to De. :‘ ember, of last year, which bicnight 11,51.1 Lao • ..,.• of cotton, wool, 13,000;00011p. al' gave l 44.4 1 ' large quantities of all other sorts of colon:140g: --clawer•-- kmeas:alttsaail ab.ias l ottm2,llr iltl: ~x .... .... more, 23 from Boston, 31 from New York, an • 19 from Philadelphia."---(Same Paper.) •. The impOrtance of obtaining a substitute`fot '''' West India sugar, appears to bo deeply -felt in France. The order fur using in the Imperial kitchen " no sugar but that i t t iv . viiest;'" is evi.;... dently intended to excite an increased . activity pf research in bringing to perfectiim the discoverieti•. , already made with regard to the production of sac.. chorine matter from thekgripe. 'f lee obligationit' ,: of France to the adienee'a, chculistEr, cari,i, t b It kr adequately appreciated; .te tbediaceve l des of, the. . SOcans, France is indebted fee,evese•her Politic& . exist:lice; and .should they everntielly' . ob. (airs a succedaneum foe that production which can now only be obtained through theyaermissfois t of Great Britain—such a. discovery would pre- • duce a strange revolution in that importatit brin&it, of commerce. ' _ it On the broad principle offiansanKy, it is emir's' sible to restrain our hopes and wishes far tbesucceii pf cT°ry project, by whichthe !abler of the unhappy ions of Melia may be abrogated in the West I Oita • • Islands. In England,many conscientiouseletscmitn 1. *tally abstained from the use of sugar auett,ifier s ,thti first seggeatien of Abe .Abolitien.of the :SIaTS Trade ; -and, If we had then possessed leek I re., - - • • . ..• . . source as tho ' vine, from .Wbich even aninspeirect • substitute could bare boon obtained, it . .isalot in. reasonable to , beliore,s that the disuse of magi; would have become universal. But to . this noise-. ' iir lin iiiiiblttlad thaw-hoes supasaAl44lo 411 k: ficulty •of obtaining sugar, now experOced hit the Continent —ingenuity and pervivenitsce. hat - 'ere this produced in, such a •country es Fdsgtensh, did she possess the vines of France and Sfettnts succedaneum by which the use Of sugar hadeteri., tually become obsolete, France, and the entire Continent of Europe, obviously feel the powierfirt operation not only of these combined motiveti.e.• but of an other,and that equall y pow erful—foterist. But although France may kis:ibis discovr ;it no remote period a subsiitste for sugar—o su l p. ply of cotton wool, so necessary to . the maple/. ment of the manufacturers on the COnlineni, vets . probably ,present greater dititulties, . altheiCh ~. the Americans have:Milled° contrived to aided the Continent with large quantities of this ai. : vtsl as ether articles of Transatlantie.prodn'ce.. It is not more than 20 years since the first bag of cotton was exported from America, and suck then were the prejudices of the British mapyfic. tem**, that it was extremely dilfictill to '... troduce it into use at any pride. Fo(several years it was used sparingly, an with. 4rrtlet4 rdloc. tance. At this moment it 111mcist supersiittea the use of other species ' of cotton' wept: -Vets is prejudice—theoperation-of Which aglibit city succeiteneure for sugar may, and wilt be, as P•Owtr. , fully felt on the Continent of Ettrope. The policy of grantinf Lice ea, (or the ripor tation,of cotton wool to the continent, :,1s in. comprehensible. • Surely if the iystein of iliclu. sion he carried into full eifect on the Continent, it t s cannot be policy is Ghat Britain, to ssktai i the languishing manufactures . a Ymico 4414_ er. many, by furnishing mat erials to renovate the A. ,NA.poz..aos resolves to close dt the t r C y o af s; i h n e e people at of . lEfurope against treat ' liri, twin—it is the obvious policy of thii country . as vigorously to cut off the supply of eiery ' material that . can conduce to the . employ ;loft:Cl:the; m r( e w n s t ._ of the To pothrthstriiotinihufmetrhcehahnotstialendco, sup t p li l e y pe t ci lle ple, C is ". e4 dn ee e l l l ' ; enemy the licence to e w t o he i natmi th : tim a e t i n e : u t i . d s e rg. f o il it r th T t p m h i a e o tl y o ß it ta l s g i c ti t s u h rin M g a p n o u p tc lii ta i te u r• .... the ' British Consumeand„ the coantrt at iarge,r.tho Measure is...highly prejudictaL • • • Ix his been ,generally reported this morning, that General. Atutrraove has left Peas. Of. the correctness of the rumour, we ere without the means of judging ; but the fads were (niktenctif about a quarter per cad., - . " . : ....... ' • Tut bearer of the dispattlies brought %roe • Flag of 'Trees is reported to live left tawnier , . France—aecompaiiiiirby a Oleatleateli . frOSI : tl4 i n., 9 ' transport Office). ' .. ~ • :•. •-. ... P.i. • • . • • .-i •• •- .;• . , . • ..• .- , . • ~, ~, .. • • . - , ' I a Thi: Div syn.: publiAted, TR. FRANCIS BORDETT TO HIS CON. S STITUF.NTS t DFINYING THE POWER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS .TO IMPRISON T 11& PEO PLE OF ENGLAND. Printed for R. Ragsbw, Biydgel-dreet, Covent-Garden; and J. Budd, Pall-Mall. THE ST 4TE SMA