The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

"7' l . 71t!c*- i , 1 . V OVAido . - :Aka" • ' , - , ',....., . • ,fit ill.(rm I mb ( ~ . 0011 10E tr. . 7 Th . ) tecont, :: C1:111.0 7 XI •-• . , t v " The Cause for 'Mich NAMPDRN jell is Me. Pielel. ei IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ITObSE OF LORDS,—Witingssaay, Earl BATHURST presented in petitions from own ers and occupiers of land in several places is Lower Ca nada, jirayiog for agricultural relief.—Rend, and laid on the table. RAPT s ►Tt PLR CRNTIO. On the motion of the Earl of LivaarooL, the Howe want into a Committee on the Firs per Cents. Bill. On the clause enacting that those who shall sot As. seat on the 16th March shall be considered as having .1111180114 Woe read, =OM objected to the wording. The tine was sad would be almost passed when the Bill shall beensaplotod. It would therefore be more 'ft is Met." the.. who r March," instead' After a few oldottioa was The Hesse Vise. N Bill mead to Lord Falt TON owners and oeeopiers of in. the *sooty of Devon. tress. prayiog reli form.—Ordered to Mr. CURWtN and occupiers r ai lt . ...a county Os cola s ag distress.—Ordered M printed. Sir M. W. RlPLar a ielpsul leave to 110- toe erecting a bridge .11* jell. ' lion, and making other I.9rue:emits Newtaide-on-Tyne. Mr. LAMBTON presented a petition frens the lobs hirsute oft)* Borough of Mahon. se the county of York. praying for I revision of the Criminal Laws.—Ordered to lie en the table. LONDON BRIDGE WATER WORKS. Sir W.CURTIS brought in a Bill to remove the Water Works from Loudon-bridge, which he moved should be read a first time. Mr. BUTFERwokera opposed the BM, as interfer ing with private propikfy. • Sir F. 0111MANRY moved that the Bill should be read • first time on that day &Is months. Sir W. CURTIS deft:toiled the Bill, and declared it was not Intended to the Water Works without icrea7 indemnifying the connected with them for say loss which they ad sestets. JR would be retweem bend that alterations had been mpteMsted to be noose sary in the present Londes4tridie ; towing even galled for a sew bridge. fie wee net friendly to lies Flew. as he wee oeweitased that a IMO bridge was nee necessary. It was new thwobjest of the city to eudesvear by other mem toles& tie 1111 of vita at this bririgto•••• The slay , in amide( 'each experimests. be fees Noy Wig a vow bridge, and thereby lemedetas _sapient al or feßillel. He wished Up* medlar liwoi by this teeenont to he Indemnified, bet T ios eenitl let be allowed Maim* la ehn way a s great Wr. = 14 11 ; 00D supported Ilse BIL He was larearshieda tie moles a a sew b4dipq, aid would Zs now Wore Ilse honsi. did Rot consider the Bill open to the objections which had been stated, and hoped it would be allowed to be read a first time. Sir F. OMMANNEY explainal. Mr. H. SUMNER wished to reserve what he had to say till Ste basin to a second reading, and the house had i.teneef-sequainted with the subject. He t►erelbte , as it was desirable, that the Honourable Baronet would be allowed to withdraw his Amendment. He was opposed to tba in Represent form, but wish ed it to go through the present stage. After a for farther remarks from Sir W. D. Crespig ny, Mr. N. Calvert, and the Speaker, the Amendment was withdrawn, and the Bill read a first, and ordered to Oread a second time. &ISTRINIS IN CANADA. Mr. MARRYATT presented a petition from the As sembly sad Inhabitants of Lower Canada, complaining of distress, arising from the legislative measures of the Mother Country, which had injured their trade, by com pelling them to purchase those articles which were ne cessary for their use in England, where they were not al lowed to send the pain which might enable them to purchase. Orest distress was the consequence. They considered themselves as suffering under a double mono poly from the enactments complained of, and prayed re lief by the removal of the restrictions opposed to the ins portation of grain from Canada into this country. Mr. ELLICE spoke to the distress of the petitioners . From the measures which had been resorted to, the West ladies was now the only market left open to them, and this from certain rumours which were afloat, it should seem was likely soon to be taken from them. This, he could say, the evils complained of were such, that it was impossible for things to go on in this way without pro- during consequesees in the first instance disastrous to the colony, but in the cod most injurious to the naviga tion and best interests of the Mother Country. Mr. BEN ETT (of Wilts) opposed the prayer of the pe tition, tso the ground that it was as necessary to protect the English agricniturist, as it could be to relieve the Canadian corn grower. When corn might be imported into this country. large quantities of - American grain had been sent to Canada, and thence smuggled into England as being of Canadian growth ; so that the re straint row complained of the petitioners bad in fact brought upon themselves. He wished to give the colo nies ell equitable protection, but could not consent to afford that species of relief which the petitioners now de sired. _ _ _ ?dr. WILMOT was fully convinced of the reality of the distress complained of by the petitioners, but at the same time he must remairk,tbat there was nothing in the measures lately adoptabd that could produce that distress. lie thought it desirable that this petition should be referred to the special notice of the Agricultural Com mittee. _ . 31r. RICARDO thought the petitioners entitled to some relief. They complained of the regulations made by this country with respect to the timber trade. Tlies• he thought justifiable, as we had a right to the cheapest market, but this lead him to their complaint, that they were obliged to purchase English manufactures. This pressed hard on them, and while this was the case, he thought their corn ought to be admitted (he did not mean at the present moment, but ordinarily) into this country. Sir I. COFFIN (bought it would have been a good thing for this country, if Canada had been sank to the bottom of the sea. It costs this country 500,000 f. per annum, and did not make a Return to it of 500 pence. The Canadians, by the timber trade, bad been in the habit of cheating this country out of 300,000!. yearly.— died *a Me Seeffidd!" ?tiWow. debt hr suffering great qaantities of Tiesas tabs rent down the river St. Lawrenos, kb haillmei theta beonght to England as Canadian timber: Tab after leder Math a part, they now threw * ei * . themselves mi float - for eapport. The sooner the Govee`wor wise "„ and the sooner the Assembly and Colon Wows - ' slii,,p, he should be sorry to say—ow elsib ter. Mr. W. lefieved that Canada occasioned a great wipes* fbla country, bat lie also believed that this would job arilpilt diminished by putting the Cana dians in a fliettaff bresper, which would do away with the necessity f•t Ookr so many thonssnds of men in that Colony, to glta4 ,4 2:nst any attempts en the part of America tit say wet. The Petition alit ordered to be printed. mintetraon - ,s from certain Police Bill. He assertion, which . occasion— treated his fel- the Petition •an Individual been arrested, , and sentenced remission of the Petition con . call the atten agreeable contrast Nina'. The Peti 'hided, said, " he ` Castle, and the laws of of the Ma. giettake -. Besides this Aligarh, bilg one to present from anelidale, in the county of d tat er, en the same subject, signed by 2.100 Is i and be hoped the prayers of the Petiti Meld be attended to. Mr. P. esier s ± o ' N wished to o ff er a few remarks which his-absence former ()cessions had precluded him fro m offerin,g . To his apprehension the charges against the Magistrates and jailer by b AX I III lon Hon. Ali. (Wood) had been completely c established, • cone of great hardship sod of flagrant truity bad %pee dimly subrtantiated. This opinion was feuded ea Po issednet of the jailer towards the prl - ell 4 11r11 there was OM case of an unfortunate man bed been loaded with irons, and whose arms being . ad with an equal weight made it shoat impossible fife the Individual to stand upright. The frommissimales had ordered them to be pat en the nue again in %bile . and the manner on which they inflected dig in a short time peeved that if they were kept me the Feiner" must be sebjeeted to some thing very like torture.' The case of the female named wee, whit Mr of stun Sere flagrant emit/. Confined • ieli airy cell, with°. fire, when frost and snow were ell the gromildaroes the hardships she sustained,, that netrlmesOldied her srioktio eaters had provided fur her infant. Wit prevision however was made for the wen- Hon, and-fr two imys dee snothernad child had nothing so e s bodkin& sad nothing to drink hut water from a beam. A person of the name of Treadle, when in the s i g. eidestb, had out met with thatimeornmoda . • . . be an left in aeo . CIMINO reg. w ; ere he ARO turbed by oth sad where others ad 'booked and annoyed by him. The conclusion td which he cause to on these circumstances was, that it was the duty of Government to order the jailer to be prosecuted. The facts stated by the Worthy Alderman (Mr. Alder man Wood) be held to be completely established, end the liouse were in his opinion much obliged to the Wor thy Alderman for his perseverance. He proceeded to account for the favourable report which be (Mr. Huston) had Toads on the state of the Heliester Jail in Ibid. The mal-practices which had prevailed had been introduced since that period. This he had a right to assume from the language of the petition, which stated them to have crept in of late. With respect to Mr. Hunt, it was clear the Judges meant to subject him to thirty months con finement in a wholesome, well-situated, and well-dis ciplined gaol. It was plain that Mr. Hunt had suffered through the first ?.0 months of his confinement from the misconduct of the gaoler. It was proved that out of the last 600 prisoners confined there, 400 bad been ill is various ways. But a still stronger proof of the an. wholesomeness of the situation, was furnished by the proceedings of the Coroner's Inquest on the body of a, prisoner who was declared by the Jury to have died by the visitation of God, but whose death was accelerated by cold, and by injuries sustained from damp, through the frequent inundations of the prison, which had been flooded six times in eight weeks. 51r. Hunt, it was clear, was not in that situation in which the Judges had meant to place him. If, then, he remained in prison till the time expired for which he had been sentenced, he would suffer snore than it had been intended that he should suffer, and would in fact have to complain of gross in- justice. Ile bopesl the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Peel), and the other Members of the Goverment. would take these circumstances into their consideration. He did not plead fur Mr. Hunt from private friendship. nor from admiration of that individual's public conduct i but whether Mr. Hunt was a good man or a bad mu, he was entitled to justice, and justice required that his sentence, and that alone, should be inflicted, and not • punishment which had never been contemplated by his Judges. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE said, the degree of punishment which had been indicted might form aped ground for the competent authorities to remit apart of Mr. Hunt's sentence. He might go along with the Hon. Gentleman when the subject came before the Hoase in this shape ; but lie contended the state in which the Hon. Gentleman had formerly found the gaol when be visited it, went a great way towards justifying the re presentations which had been made on the subject be. fore the late Commission commenced its labours. He slid not see how the local situation of the prison could be affected by what had lately transpired, but he was glad the Honourable Gentleman drew a distinction be tween what the prison was when he visited it, and what it was in 1621. Mr. DICKENSON vindicated the conduct of the Ma gistrates, who the moment they believed there were real grounds for complaint, had afforded Mr. Hunt every fa cility for substantiating the charges. It was his belief that the Magistrates of Somerset were incepts', of act ing with that savageness and want of feeling which had beenimputed to them. Mr. PEEL, in consequence of the direct appeal which had been made to him, was unwilling to remain silent on the one hand, while on the other he was equally re luctant to go into the details connected with that subject at this moment. In the first place, this discussion was either premature. A motion had been made for print ing the evidence given before the Commission, which motion had been acceded to. Till the evidence had been L It would therefore be more proper to in- situsaniam rows 'ILL. who shaU not hive dieleated by. the 16th of Mr. ABBILCROMBY.prosented a Petition ft kited of those " who shall net rimiest." inhabitant* of Edirshargb against the Polk' 'lnstils him the Earl of Livaaroei, the to o k tida onortealtref disclaiming an assert 5 net pressed. . he bed been tombs on a former 1 then mauled. the viliertlito ressirod. Aiii _that high! 'Mud 4tad tree red to be reed a third time mr-morrovorAug s . low r 1.--, -.4114..- . V Mkt aMr Mr, W. MINIMS, t ROME Of COMMONS. srro ordered on die table. ..... MIL 111714 T. AORICITLIVRAL 1N1T1114411. Sir it. WOW presented& Petition from as ',INOTON presented a petition from the of the toad* of Lancaster, who bad bee weepier, of land lathe tows of Cellonsptos, tried, and 'esirricted with Mr. Haat, and rof Devon, complaining of agricultural din- to a year's ithotiseausent, praying for a remit R relief, and calling for Parliamentary Re- men d e d, * o f lb b . H ens ., sentence . Th e p i red to be printed. taioed one h to which he would ea KEN presented a petition from the owners Lion of the .as it presented at agreeal sof land of WWI. in the county of Lia- to ther, that lately come before them. iniog of agrienharal dhtrees.—Ordered to tioner in the ph to which he alluded had been ed to a prison in Lincoln gumeir a iiipid hays to bring in a bill bad .bOets treated with that huanauity which 'bridge .11allt jell , sad house bf Cam., th e mee t l y wand, to the lasting honours thing other ineproremeats in thktown of Orioutees sot like awes of the Prison." 1 _ . . C CONINISSIONERS OF LAND NIESSED TAXES, ITL► of GROUND, in the VW FALL, mobilising about Mb feet kiss than from 25 to 80 feet. Please ira to Mr. Richard Till, their Clerk, 1 4 No. 18. Alleresaabary. TENT PORTABLE PENS.— lion of dame Pow baring recently illo pak, .II: BRAMAN and SONS, melbelerero and Proprietors of the 'Nee Se asioseous Patrons arh .41199,19 , 1 sr Packet of th eir *1- with a bat simile of lb. signature w" by which amass the eed.—January 94, lOU. ktie am abettilastsibras ash ea. 000111111bateel splilsohas loss id lailltses o Irla lalkeri has bees de- We. Vie illiwts of the an tressitte4, with *sea lelbstioser tivelra*plies, Sees limadltt ilia et elms. said Albs mile admen pewees;, W doe ml loser fres Ws dt tie assositey sistl ili s tal or t1 i t: 7 4 4 :5 restore, ample as 4 direct, la ban eieb of execution Is the but, bemuse deem io order that the Actor say of his unequal share to the see mly be insured as such as possible tither labeler ear expense will be do the Portraits of all the most ee -lof oar owe thee, la their fermate s of which will be earillilly corrected f ieforraatioa, eelbet tie book stay hilberity upon IW. M, by Asters Wi lithe l • peete•ft; iteelawhillbtiallikwis Pat, OM the pima *ilk velll.bo given Ae illwitated by is away M Adhere H era be obtalsed wad given a few of the per- Thalweg', aid of the Halm Opeta- BAIN eon. 7. pH. PIMICNISOIt. _ banana, hi lbe Lee net dell Usibee mien& ltersears. by Mr Lownisso. P.R.A. Rainy% De NW stein ice plates, with *preplan 1.. i. U. 4s. 1 , 0•6: en ladle pager, with two sets leered. of which may fifty copies will • SIRSOINNFIRinbins • &sad, jun. 65, Regent's Quadrant, :imams may be seen ; also lajjelan• fekl; Colnalhi Chapple - 1111 lion : sad Caltia; Molten*. Slmpkln and Neely, and Jones ; Enter; Cribb ; ad Co.; Collings Bath ; Cummins, and Wilson and Co Edinburgh. esdy April Ist. sad contains the M iming Portraits: . aftergl o Wilt y• iticper • •r- • • , j ' 'Sbarpe..... Ditto Ditto Ditto Waldeck... Ditto easing tha lint Number; published in 1, are requested to forward the same rkseliers that they may be changed. gW SAUCE for general purposes, eb great epprobstion, end the demand lerease, JOHN BURGESS and SON y to otter this their best aeknow ic for their liberal patrouages of the great convenience in all climates. has eostdiclingulshed foreign connexions. high') in its recomatendatien,—lt Is ; and for preventing disappoloWnent de care has been resorted to by each pon the cork with their Inn and ad- Ishel having their signature, without nuinc. and SON'S lona established and moeb of ANCHOVIES continues to he pre he same manner that has given Um or many years. roast) ; corner of the Savoy-steps, London. Al: 71814-SAUCE WAREPOLSE.) lAINST PICKING LOCKS.— L, IMPROVED BRAMAICS PA HYDRA CLIC PRESS-MAKER, •VERF.,T, SMITHFIELD; near Thirty S , peritdendeitt to Mr. Joseph Bra r,'Ull 1' offers to the Public, and par s Lr,c,:, precisely the same as the late ; hut possessing a new and W- I. u, 4 ginal Patent Lock didnot pose. iroveineat is presumed to be of , T'altlic than any Invention that has I, • for which o Patent has not been ..;.• • that persons may be instructed to • '.s now in tie, on application to i.outrd this improvement; in manse • s appearing in the Public Newspa e late Mr. Braman's Patent Locks. by W. R. and all others receiving ,tamped •• Russell's Security." ~ocks for Cabinet and other Fund ;muffle Presses for Sugar Refiners, lost powerful description and utility. 'or preserving the Liquor, and also olect security. Russell's improved -arum, which every Dwelling ought to lraulic Press about Forty Tons Power :LiOP THE BRITISH irt -. 4 L ALLERY, Mar li. Y. Est. ~ -: A ris SOYAL 11111116.1fitre, 10CV664, roarriakhrt doristOriliziress the 1 or or tristabose Ito siViessesee; asii le redly waded* _iiparilimatimallelihril 1w_1M1 1 ,1 1 •00,111 ertteithMeils- i GUINEAS REWARD. ENGRAVERS, &c.—Whereas covered that certain Persons are in the d Vending Labels, being copies or imi ed to the bottles containing the GE- M prepared by DAY and MARTIN. iprincipled dealers to impose on their id injurious article. We hereby offer a [teas to any Person who shall give such Ind to the conviction of any one guilty tiers. DAY AND MARTIN, 97, High Holborn. PRICE SEVEN PENCE. produced, the subject could sot be perfectly understood, and as the evidence would be printed and published in the course of* few days, it would be better in every re spect, and more especially for the parties most iMtnflii ately concerned, that they should abstain from going into it now. He begged that be might not be stipposeil to stand up for the purpose of vindicating any of the ir regularities which had occurred. He viewed with regret those instances of misconduct which had been priicril lie tbbeght, with respect to the treatment of the pri soners in particular, and more especially with respect to the course pursued towards one to whose head a blister had been applied as a punishment, there could be hut one opinion. When it vies seen that a member of that profession, whose duty it was to offer consolation in disease, was thus called upon to exercise Lis art to pu nish a refractory prisoner, he thought it was impossible to read the statement without feeling indignation against the officer who could demand such a punisb ment, bat still more against the medical man who had complied with the wish. -But these circnmstances ought not to hurry the Hsu. to paw sweeping cents • and geseral reproaches on the Magistrates. At present -•- ' be would only ask the House to suspend their opioialt -• till the subject came more re gularly before them. Novi:, with respect to the ease of Mr. Bout, lie would remark that the circumstances ought to be very special and strong which could indace him to think of calling for lb* interposition of the Royal prerogative in favour of : • • an individual in his (Mr. Hunt's) situation, and siped- ally now when a motion on that subject was so shortly . • to be brought before the House. He had, however, wade loquiry into the present situation of Mr. Hunt, and wished the house to understand what it was. Mr. Hunt occupied at present, he believed, two rooms in the pet eon. These had certainly a northern aspect, hut, the circumstances of the prison considered, were not incom- Modious. There was another room adjoining in which two prisoners waited, whose business it was to attend ysis Mr. Hunt. He was allowed to walk in the factory yard at particular hours. Though contradictory orders had been issued with respect to Mr. Hunt, lie saw no thing that indicated any unworthy motive on the part of the Magistrates. He referred Gentlemen to the evidence and the report on this @object, from which it would be seen that various alterations had been made for the ac commodation of Mr. Hunt. He now understood the High Sheriff bad taken upon himself the resins lability of admitting visitors to Mr. Hunt under the resolutions originally acted upon when Mr. Hunt first came to the prison. He would read one paigraph of the Report to the house, that the indignation of Gen tleness might not be directed to improper objects.— This stated that "it was in evidence that great pains had been taken, and considerable sums expaaded, to make the Gaol commodious ; and though in some re spects defects still existed, they by no means went the length of saying that success had not generally attended the attempts of the Magistrates; and it was consoling to know, that many of the defects which at present existed, from the alterations now in progress, were in a fair way of being promptly removed. floe;) time since he (Mv: Peel) had thought it Ids duty to write to the Clerk of the Peace in that isoniiirop lbw subject, and he had Sonaitleat a Oidellamillittboau appointed to correet dm alma whidb oduend as far as pesible. That there Wanes sues MOM on the part slime Magistrates, he readily simittod ; bat, under all MI eirennistances, this was not unnatural considering the high character which the gaoler bad bone for a long time. In the report it wookeleani than dm aseditet efAbm Individual had in some instances enammoded ad siraaioa Alt the time when the typhus favor raged in the prisobilt was impos ' able that the coadrt dewy man could be, better than his was on that omission. The high character with which the gaoler went from the hulks to Ilchester, and tb• praises which his conduct hail received, were calcu 'ated to throb, tad Magistrates off their guard, • The circumstance would prove a useful itainkg lb Other* in similar situations, not to place too myiclo cispfidenct in an Individual on account of what his ilaracter, had been. That his conduct had been good wit; to be inferred from what the Hon. Gentleman . apposite had said in his ra port on the gaol. Wired thus expressed himself—" I had not the good fortune to see the Gaoler, but the as pect of the prison convinces me that he does his duty to the Magistrates who employ him, and that they have nobly done thein to the country." He did not defend the neglect which had been proved, but he bad thought it right to say so mach in explanation of the eirciim stances noder which they had been imposed upon him, and he implored the house to suspend their opinion for the present. Mr. BENNET would be as ready as any man to reral censures too hastily pronounced, but every thing tended to confirm hint in the opinion that those which lie had formerly bestowed on the visiting Magistrates were just. lie believed theta to be unfit for their situations, and had it in contemplation to submit a motion to the. Maw for their removal, considering them to have broken their trust ; if the evidence turned out as he expected it would turn out, be should take the step which he had announced, if no other Hon. Member brought the sub ject forward. Mr. HUME thought, as lie had stated before, that se Veld of the Magistrates had appeared destitute of hums sky. He concurred in the view which his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bennet) took of this subject. Unwilling to pass hasty censure, he approved of the call which the Right Hon. Gentleman made on them, to suspend their opinion till enquiry , could take place ; and he regretted that Mi nisters had not acted on this feeling in another case, where a Gallant Officer was concerned. It aas nut well, that Ministers should adopt this principle in some cases, madam in direct oppositioo to it in others. TboSOLICITOR•OENERAL said, at different pe • riodi, when the affairs of I Ichester Gaol had come before the house, reference had been made to the orders sup posed to have been made by certain Learned JU.lfel for the regulation of that Gaol. He bad in consequence takes occasion to desire that these regulations should be sent up. He had seen them in their original state, and as they were afterwards intended to be be acted upon. In the original there were three or fonr harsh rules, which ought not to be used for any Gaelic the kingdom. Bat he was in a situation to state that these had been disallowed by the Judges, and those subsequently al lowed were not only such as the law sanctioned, but they were not open to any objection in other respects. He mentioned this, as an idea had gone abroad that one of those learned persons hid sanctioned regulations' which were harsh and severe. Such as they a ere, be was confident that they would be considered satisfactory by the house. ' ...,,'" 'f The Petition was tEen brought up, and ordered to be printed. Sir R. WILSON presented the Petition from Roell,l4le on the same subject, wbich was read, and ordered W ho printed. \ HOP DUTtE3. Sir R. WILSON moved for an worm of the.lnties on Hops of the growth of 1821, distinguishing the difference between the old and new duties . — Ordere d.