The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-12 00:00:00

N I ( ..a.,;ii tt .11i4fn Vein, of the 92d Foot. Captain Jahn T. Jones, of the Royal Engineers. kiTAFT. To be Aides-de-Camp to his Royal flighnesQ lb; Prince Regert. li...itenant-Oilonel Thomas M'Alahuti, of 17 til Loot. Thomas Arbuthnot, uf the stb West India Regiment, Commissariat. De . cream ;hark.. t)alrymple to be a Cora .;.isSary-'3ellt•(.11 to 0 . • V... HOSPITAL STAFF. • Burgeon Jo!in Rnehe, i.oui Light Dragoons, to bo Sar germ to,. l'o• v. , — ?Abe Howital-Mates for General Solite, George %lin tient. .„....• • • - Gent. Thcalsall Smith, Dent, 'roe Kitnos German Le (on. 6 1,...1e , r,1t of t,ight Dragoons, Uadet-Serjeant Geotge Leolh hankie be Cornet. Duke of krunswiek Ocls' Corps. Infantry, Ent*s Mohner to be lieutenant, vice Ug-. rah, who restgos. En.ier. Henry noptag to be Lieutenant, vice Newman, 7, 770 re. ps. Ser a st an Chides _Muller Who Ensign, vice llohner. rtiflicric ' ice Sontag, • pgmeß4Npum, Licommot Piei. ..uJ &Actives:tin James Hewson, t>t ibe 412 d Regimen: of Foot, are super stied, being absent without le.ire. • Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, Stockport Local Militia. Lieutenant Roger Rowsoq I.ingard to be Captain, vice RIMIte house, resigned. Dated January 23,1812. En•ivri. liestritnisr Lloyd to be Lieutenant, vice . WPM, PPP losited. Dated as above. ttel obalv, Ge9List.be I.ientenant. DO* as above, Crtorn,47fltse, / 7 14;*11.- MEMBER RETURN ED I'o SERVE 1% THIS PRESENT s. . • :pARLIANILNT. intOugh of Derbe--Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, got, to the room of *William Cavendiab, Esq. deceased, • • • BANKRUPTS. Wicksteed, Brtiolewptace, Kenniarni, woollen-dra per. to surrender Feb. 17, Id eldavekl4, at Guildhall. W. lainphsies, s beltrtiharri,•earpenter, Feb. 19, art the Office of Mr. T, Gwisnel, Cheltembato, /0, March 24, at the Plough In44l..ttrub.un. • J, gad J. Howitate, just. Wakefield , manufactures, March 6, 7, *, artist. oew Court Haase, Wakefield, W. t'..t4lboa; tlyinorith Dock, money-trecirener, Feb. 211, V,.htarch 4. at the Sllntie Tavern, Exeter. J, gatlerhelJ, Dover, cabinet-maker, ,15•b,13, 22, March 24, at Ottlidiratl; I Sidra. 1 Neive. Glitter-bow, Cheapside, silk-Weaver , Feb. 18, 25, Oandball.. • • "I t Charlakdreet, City-road, merchant, Feb, 13, 'l5, J. Wilson, Itortms.in-Ribhiesdale, Yorkski' re, innkeeper, Peto. 21, /larch 'IS, at the Golden Lion Inn, Settle. J. Green, Ifedderstkitif eorn-menhant, March, 6,7, 24, at the New Session's Ulnae, Wakeield. • J. Firi Brid:ingtnn, Yorkshire , linen-draper, Feb. 9.1, 25, 11arch 24, at t bytes llotel, Slisysniaker. Red, Cro s,street, tallow-chandler, Feb. 1.5, 22, 31irch 21, at Giiilditall; T. litickh.nn. Nevreastle-npost-Tyne, butcher, Feb. 19,March 5, 9 4 , at thelie,rge lon, Nra'.:.a...tlC-apott - TVae. A. Gray, ligniir-street. t-lerkenwill, dialer. Feb., 18, d 9, Atutts.ll. at Ovaildhall. J-Yfard, Wa ilwicb, coal-merchant, Feb. 15, 22, March 21. Y Guildhall, London. _ fisunuel,. AI . ; 1..1, Monmouthsbire, shopkeeper, Feb. 21,22, Web IN, at the Uhl a Lion Inn, ilristol. [ Divideads, &c. to-morrow.) I 11PE R lAL PARLIAMENT. ' - HOUSE OF Logos, Fut. 11. In the COntellnee of Privileges on the Strafford Peerage, se 'drat dneomeat. mere recd in evidence ' and the farther pro eeedietwas appointed for Tuesday next. The Koval Assent was ontided by Commission to the the il Pop"! onsebea 'Sill, the Keeney Expellees Dil i, and Beinsiliatd Ofllee. BIN. The Conimislineers were the Lord Chancellor, Earl, Bitbare, at d Lord Adjaarned uli Thursday, 110UiE OF COMMONS. Mr. MIMES preemie( a Petition from the Inhabitants of Mar% port r ita Cu mherlod, respecting the harbour of the plate. %Ordered la Area the tulle. The Report of the Coal Trade BUS was brooght up, and Or diere rt to he poi red on FrAty n •st. Mr. VA f. ITT ART gave notice, that he sboald postpgat ha Matioqi oi . .ocb stood roe tkji day, tilt Thursday next. • ROYAL FORESTS. Mr. ARBUTHNOT brought in a Bill for the better preser vation ottimbrr in the New I- tiro, stc. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-moaner. Ordered to be prin.ed, rOL R AND A HALF PER CENT. LEEWARD ISLAND DUTIES. Mr. CItTIEVEY rese, pursuant to his notice, to make a mot;on upon this subject, and he thought the pr..seot tooment a peculiarly fit one, when a new agreelieet %as to be made with the Executive Go vernment, and when, therefore, we ought precisely toituow what was to be granted. With regard to these defies, it was hir opinion they were the pro perty of the inhabitants of Barbadoes, and ought to be applied to colonial purposes. This was his first opinisso--bat if that • should be negatived, and if it should be thought that these duties ought to find their way into the &chequer, then he would suhmit whe ther'tbay might not to be applied In aid of the Pub lic Expelditake. But,' if neither of these opinions sh 4 uld bil held valid; he hoped that the abuses iu the apple.siva of this revenue, which he had the ', power of provieg, would be thought sufficiently im perhint to deserve the attention of the House. — ,1 ',i'o , prove 'that 'these duties were the property of the inhabitants of Barbadoes, he would mention a few historical :facts. In the beginning of the reign 'of Charles the First a grant of the whole Island, of Bachadors, which. was then worth nothing, was made. to the Earl of Carlisle j during the troubles bf the 94,1 War. and the Protectorate, however, many persons 'Woo over there os settlers, and it became, Iraq? a desert Islancf, a very prosperous place. The Earl of.t,aciiile died very much in debt, and his son trenattriedifie.gratit of the Island of Barbadoes to 'the Karl . ' oti, kitinoulk The creditors, of the first Earl cf cal isle, heaving that the island had become .valimbli vossession, made some applications to the :Privy Crinic.l; which tended materially to affect the Intert.sts of landholders itr,Barbadoes, and some of qe planteta came over to England, 'and to the same •Flity Cornell made an offer something like a royal mivenue;ll they were preserved in their rights and •rsiwoni- - w hen they returned to dirbodoes, the st thing thatas done by the colony itself was the passing ap lo Which it was declared, that in consideration of the * charges'incurred in maintaining . Isis Majesty's authority there, they stye and ranted to his Majesty, and his successors,. lor ever, an ha- - pc:4 or cartons upon the dead commodities of that iglapri, at the rate of 41 in specie, -for every five score. But this money was raised for public service In that Wend; for thevaislig.sed repairing of forti. ' lattineas Pf k was intended to 'come to this country, In the rolgp of Chia** 11, when the rrguhatoo& for his vevenwe were %Wilted, n 6 mention was made of this fund; ndr was titer* any is that; fff James 11. to whom the whole royal aitabltshmant trsuareired, in kid by his protessolon le .. .. 'TAE sTA! . , William 111. indeed, this fund was recognised in two Acts as among the small hereditary re v venues of the Crown : but when the Civil List of Queen Anne was arranged, a Petition Wes pre sented from the planters of Barbadoes,• stating, that the funds had been perverted from their ori ginal purpose, and praying that they might be ap plied to their legitimate use"; In consequence, a Com mittee of the Mese of Commons addressed the Queen, and requested that these funds might be ap propriated, as they were Wended, to celpni;l put poses; and they were so. In George I. this fund was again speeifivally exempted when arranging the Royal Revenue ; and the same in George 11. Upon the accession of his present Majesty, however, a new, speeies of arrangement took place. It was agreed, that upon his surrendering certain revenues, he should receive a specific sum for his Civil List. It might be said, indeed (and that was the only thing that could be urged), that in the enumeration of the revenues which was moved for in consequence of his Majesty's Message to Parliament, this fund of 44 per cent. was not surrendered by name. True : and why ? Because he could not be said to pos sess them, Queen Anne never had them; and 1 they were specifically exempted in the regulations for the revenue of George I. and 11. But admitting that these sums ought to find their way into this country, they should certainly go to the Consolide ted Fund, and not in aid of the Civil List. With regard to the abuses, he would state that this fund had produced 1,600,0001. since his Majesty's awes- I sion, and oat of this 400,0001.hadbeen paid for sale- ries to Governors, If this sum had been paid, how: ever, to the Governors of Barbadoes and Leeward! Islands, there might be no reason to complain : but 1 out of this 400,0001. all the Governors of islands ' seemed to be paid; even those of Guernsey and Jer. soy. For special service 826,00Q1, had been taken from that fund ; and 48,0001. for Secretaries to the Treasury. It had also contributed 170,0001. in sup port of his Majesty's Civil List ; and all these sums had been applied without Parliament knowing any thing about it. Numerous Pensions too had been granted out of this fund during the same period, to the amount of 740,0001. Among others, was 3,0001. to the- Earl of Chatham, and 0,0001.. a year, during twenty years, to the late Duke of Gloucester. There were many cosveniences attached to Pensions on this fund ; a fund which was entirely out of sight : but I looking at the way in which it was so injuriously I used, he should move that a Select Committee be ap pointed to examine into the nature of this revenue, its amount, and its application. Mr. LONG wished that the Hon. Gentleman had studied thehistory of the period he had allude , ' ' 0 with a little mole attention, and he would then have fount that the grant to the King by the Act of the Colony, 1663, was in cousideration of the planters being al lowed to keep possession of their lauds; and though he readily admitted, that in the island of Barbadoes (and there alone) a part of this revenue was to be applied to local purposes, yet- the remainder was in- . tended to be reserved to the King. When the Hon. Gentleman referred to what had been done by Queen Anne, he should have taken into his observations all the collateral circumstances. The fact was this--e commission was sent out to Barbadoes to look into the state of the fortifications, which they had re. portedeo be in complete ruin, and an Address was consequently presented to the Queen, that she would be pleased to apply these duties to the purpose of re. pairing those fortifications, width she accordingly did, and therefore they were excepted in the arrange. meat of her Majesty's revenues. It was his decided, opinion that these funds were a part of the heredi tary revenue of the Crown, and of which it cannot be-divested but by an express Act of Parliament; and this opinion bad been held by a recent Committee of that-House (the Finance Committee), which hed' declared that the 41 per cent. duty had bees consi dered as continuing at the disposal of the Crown as its hereditary revenue. When Ise considered these , circumstances, he could not but 'express .his dissent at going into a Committee to enquire into the appli cation of this inferior branch of his Majesty's re venue, Mr. PETER MOORE said, that the simple gees. I tion was, did those funds belong to the Crown, of i did they not ? He contended that they did not, that 1 they were on the same footing as the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, and no one would contend that the Crown could grant pensions on the revenues of that Duchy. Lord FOLKESTONE said, that the only person found on either side of the tiouie to oppose the motion for a Committee, was a Right Honourable gentleman (Mr. Long), who was a pensioner to the amount of 15001. a year upon those four and a 1 half per cents. which it was the purpose of that Com- j mittee to enquire Into, and that Right Hon. Gentle. man had defended this disposition of them upon the sole ground of usage, as if because an abuse was an old one, it ought, therefore, to be continued. He then proceeded to , show that these four and a half, percents. were excepted out of the Civil List of ; I Queen Anne, and also out of ,those of George . I. and 11., and could not consequently have vested in his I present Majesty. The list given in to Parliament of 1 the commencement, did pot contain any specification of the four and a half per cents. because that list was not ? as it had been alleged tolie, a list of what ii,e Majesty bad given up in lieu of the Civil List estab lishmeet, but a list of what then vested in him, se that, according to his Majesty's own list, they had then the strongest negative testimony that the four and a half per cents. were not then in possession of the Crown. • Mr. LONG explained, ' j Mr. ROSE denied that the 'original purposes of I rthe four and &half per cents, were merely and strict- y colonial. Mr. MARRIOTT said, that originally the four r l i and a kale per cents. were a vohsntary gift on the circumstances eeuberanee bad of 31a the r i t r o l f oy the ajty ".6" ; thitt of si ßa nte rbad tha 4 ; t 'l im i e n imotiallTud n y ot m teeed,t e he colonies were heavily tom 4 i the most devoted and oppresaed ' part et the Empire. e , Mr. PREEVEY,ShovtIy replied. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUiIi ad... Mitt" that the y h e' d been excepted out of the Clad Use of Warn 4Ernir merge the First, and Veorge dm mood s idol dented that they were iss **refer, WI int of thi Royal dismal . , . e hte, WHITBREAD could not help thinking the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Long) a most questionable advocate in support of the present mode of disposing of the four and a half per cents. If It was an abuse of those funds, it was art abuse from which that Right lion. Gentleman derived 1,5001. a year. He did not wish to under-rate the public ser vices of that Gentleman, but he would ask if there had not been those four and a half per cents. if Par liament would have voted 15001. a yoar to that Right ef o nonrOble Gentleman in consideration of those see "vices ? [Hear, hear 1 Before those funds had been eaeepted from the Civil List, it was but too well knew, Ape they were in general appropriated to the purposes of 'Parliamentary corruption, now though it was impossible that in times of modern pu rity they could be so devoted, yet he thought that the ) fact of excepting them from the Civil List, after such notorious abuse of them, proved that it was the in. ° teotion of the Legislature, at that time, to leave *hem no longer at the disposal of any Minister, He should vote for going into the Committee. The gallery was then cleared for a division. The House then divided—For the Motion, 19 — Against it, 50. SWEANT AT ARMS 4ND CLERK OF THE HOUSE. ' Mr. PEKEVAL moved to bring in a Bill to re peal the Act of the 40th of his present Majesty, re gulating the effices of Clerk and t4erjeant at Aims of the House of Commies, and to establish other and farther reguletious iu plea thereof. For the last 30 years the Offices of Serje;nt at Arms and House- keeper had been joined in one, end 'certain fees had ' been received in both capacities. fie proposed that ,pie two (Aces should in foture be consolidated, and should not hereafter be capable of separation. The i Assistant Clerk too, he proposed, should be recog- I sized, The Priecipal Clerk, the House need not be ! Wormed, often acted by Deputy, and be intended to Ipropose that when a Deputy was required the As i sigma Clerk should be promoted; a provision being I ende for a salary for the Principal Clerk on retiring,t 1 He also proposed that a prevision should be made ' I for the Deputy Serjeant, though by no means that he 1 ' should be placed on a par with the Principal. I sr. W. SMITH did not mean to oppose the' Bit, he only begged in that stage of the businesseo I ielFitess his doubts as to the advantage to be derived 1 itrott,baving e. Deputy Serjeant et all. The , House I had' never found a Deputy Speaker necessary, nor did* see the necessity of having duplicates of any kind. Mr. PERCEVAL conceived that nothing Gould be more necessary than that there should be a Sere jeant, or Deputy Serjeant, at all timer in waiting to obey the call of the Speaker. • - Leave was then given V bring in the Bill. ' Mr. PERCEVAL immediately brought it up, , vilien it was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday, and to. be printed. CIVIL Lto CONMITTEE. Mr. EDEN rose, for the purpose of moving the House that he may be disc-hared - from attending the Committee for which he had moved yesterday, on the subject of the Expeities of the Civil List. Mu tilated as the Committee was, by His mlein which it was appointed ;—deprived of the powE of sending for persons, papers, and records ;—crippled as it i , was, in every respect, by the limited powers with which it was invested, 'or rather by - the total want of all powers—he could not but oonc.eive it perfectly I inadequate to the accomplishment of the object he , had in view, or, indeed, to the accomplishmentof any 1 good or legitimate object whatever. He must beg that his attendance on each a Committee be dipensed with. The Committee might conjecture, but it could not come to any well-founded conclnsion on ally one topic which might come before them. 'They might express regret at any expence which might seem too„ great, bet they could neither come to any sound judgment as to the amount of the - unnecessary and improper expenditure, nor adopt means for prevent ing it its future. He was thoroughly persuaded that it would be a waste of his own time in him to attend such a Coin; :tee; nor did he feel that he could be an etticieet Member of it. . 1 The question !ping pat and reconded, I Mr. YORKE was of opinion that after the Hon. i likemb. r had, no further otf than yesterday, moved ' , for the anpointment of thit very Committee, and af- I ter the Douse Lad, on his own suggestion, reposed I I in him the duty of being a Member of that Commit- t I tee, it was rather inconsiteent in him now to eeme I to the House, and desire to be di.cearged from at- i I tendance on the Committee, ' merely because the I House had not thouke proper to grant to the Hon. Member all that he asked. The House had refused, l and he thought properly so, to grant to this Commit ) tee greater powers than they had given to a Ceremit tee on the same subject in 1804. But still see. a the Committee ese if they should be or opinion that they had not due means of information, on any pare' titular subject, or even, if any individual Member of the Committee was of that opinion, might not the' ' Committee, through their Chairman, or - any indi vi- I dual Member, come to the (louse and move for such 1 information as thly might think wanting, on any I ' branch of the subject referred to them ? • lie did not I I see why the House ought to distrust the Committee i they had appointed.; nor could he consent that the i Hon. Member who itadhad a duty devolved on hint by the House, at his "own desire, should be dis. charged from that duty because he had not got all he wanted. Mr. HORNER contended that, the charge of in consistency attempted to be made against his lion. Friend (Mr. Eden) was utterly unfounded. T he. Right Hon. Gentleman said It was inconsistent in his lion. Friend to ask to be discharged of a duty which be asked to be allowed to perform. Nothing, how 'Sever, could be so unfounded, • His Hon. Friend had asked for a Committee to enquire; the House had appointed a Committee to consider, but had denied him ; Committee to enquire. They had giveu him a Committee utterly unfit for any good purpose. But, whether they were fit for any good purpose or not, it , was enough for his Hon, Friend to .y, that this was not the Committee be asked. The Committee .irp pointed was a Committee on nothing but accounts, and yet they were denied the power of eendi w ngf t e i re . I single" explanatory piper. If this wise so, ha n consistency could be attributed to hie lion. Friend In i'rettuesting that be might be discharged him attend , lag such a Committee, afte r the blouse had denied lOWA OW, p9weree VW! ;milk ,Piette TeWer their . . appointment available ? Ho thought his Hon. Friend had acted a manly and becoming part in asking to be discharged from attending a Committee whose labour: must be completely inefficacious. Mr. BATHURST was of opinion, thatany infer. nation which might be wanted by the Committee might still be obtained by coming to the House, after they were aware of the particular head on which the pspers, or other information, would be required. rhen, too, it would be in the power of the House to consider, whether the information ought to b e I asked by Vote or by Address. The limited powers of the Committee at present, did not go to infer a permanent exclusion of evidence, but only put it o; ► the Committeee, in, the first place, to see what could be done by the information afforded them by the Crown. Mr. PETER MOORE contended, that Ms lion, Friend (Me. Eden) had been perfectly consistent, Mr. MACDONALD asked, would the Right Hon, Gent. (Perceval) now undertake to consent to address the Crown for the Popes necessary to enable the Committee to come to some judgment on the mat. ters referred to them? At present the Committee had nothing to do but to take their 'shape, of any papers falling into their web Mr. MONTAGUE was afraid, that the present motion might be of dangerous example, and might induce the peep!* to believe that that House wished to deny entrirY, The Idetieg was *et jset aim nettalivetl without division, 1~ - „*.• , . , • • . , • • I 6 1 , I) , 6 !!si ITROITS OF ADMIRALTY. Mr. 11110.tioiiii1iPoii3Oneci his motion on this subject, front Friday next to Friday sn'unight, IiUSIIY PAM Mr. ORDE repeated his question as to the inten. tion of the CrOWII in regard to the cutting of the or, namental trees in Bushy Park. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, from the enquiries he had been able to make, the cutting had been confined to the lopping otf of some large diseased limbs, in order to preserve the beauty of the whole. The Pilots' Bill was read a second time, and or to be committed. The Naval Stores EmbezAlement Bill was read third time and passed.—Adjourned, TO CORIWIIPONDENTS. MArtc's" Letter to the Duke of *Solttusti in4y 11,3* wanted, An. Mailc. ' - Due. - 0 •• t Waterford . .. • • 0.• • •t . • P 0 1. 11 ....... , .... .. Guernsey y ..... •...: ..- .. . i - n . . 0 . ..... •••. Brasil. ,•.,... t4. Mx - irliP — NriioAy,:—)4l4 l ay at the rub* Ofilcse, TILESTAT4SMAN. • JANDOPI: • vezontsomr, mammas is,. Pit • -4t The Steyr arrived on Monday at istempool, with. Papers down to Saturday, the ,Lltb of January, and letters one daytigter. Only one 'ground of differ. ence subsisted between the Americenr Peep's and their Government, and that the latter have elost wisely removed. Before the actual period `for the operation of the Non•rmportation Ant, many pur chases had been leade, and several large contracts entered into, bona fide for American account. The imporation of these goods, being British manufacture, will be permitted under due and satisfactory proofs, Thos is the whole of the popula.lon of a vast Con tinent reconciled to all the acts of their Govern ment ; and ate hate the authority of the firs' mercan tile characters is this country to add, that accounts from France POSITITILTItite I that the Constitution frigate tee% out to America a defensive Treaty be, tween that country and France. Wcapprehend that it is now too late even for the cowardice of the :di nistar to avert a war! A BILL TO AUTSIORIZE THE IMPORTATION OP GOODS, WARES, •XD MERCHANDISE, UNDER CERTAIN CIREWs. •TANCEI, FRO][ GREAT ORMAN, HER COLONIES OR DEPENDENCIES. 46 SEC. 1. Be it enaeted by the Sentde and House of Representatives of the United Slides of America, in tongreis assembled t That 'alt goods, wares, and merehandize, being the growth, priiSliee;aod manu facture of . Preut'Britain, her cOloniet or 'dapendea .cies, and irenrparOtased or actually contracted for in Great &ital., her colonies or dependencies, ante. riot to the Ist day of February, 181.1, shall be, and the same are hereby authorized to he imported into the United States, or the territories thereof, and may be admitted to entry, provided that satisfactory proof be exhibited, conformable to such regulation , shall from time to time be gi%en by the Secretary of the Treasury to the respective Collectors of the Customs, that the goods, wares, and merchandise, imported inte the United States, or the territories thereof, by virtue of this Act, were purchased or actually contracted for anterior to the Ist of February, 4811, and that such goods, wares, of merchandise, are the bona fide property of e Ciii' zen or Citizens of the united States or the territu• ries thereof, Sec. V. And be it further Enacted, That the fol lowing addition. he inserted after the passage of thli Act, to the oath or affirmation taken by importers, consignors, or agents, at the time of entering goods Imported into the United States or the territories thereof, vit.:—" I do also swear (or affirm) that there are not, to the best of my know ledge and belief, amongst the goods, wares, or merchandise, now of feted to be entered, any goods, wares, or merchandise other than such as are permitted by tirttip of the pr visit* of this Act to be importe d into the Unitoetl StOnp Of the territories .thergof, god Ido further I- . 4. 1- s It 1, I SI 1. Id Or e. ky ry rtS Ito es oT of I • i Of • ii• s . 00 11. rS t ies ire oi- lin to- ted het