The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-06 00:00:00

• which the mode of ballet to legless the influence col riginatly adopted wal intsters. It was sup, their ~posed (yr, aseavierionitetFd .with, them lontrarty i 4 their .o wn conviction , who would wllliugly them f their votes 061(1 be trinrealid. t o ttae o vents, It was not more &Tomah), tO.Miciittfrs,t " et I • mode, fqr there . wa l l po smog why thp . pl4ll 0 pet a partiCufar nits, into glasi sbnikneOte te4 for it also. . 1 iv .• Sir W,AUrat OL WO. *Coot at iigrit• Wend to ,have addressed th e llotie• * op the present occasion, .6ot it appeared to him ..z impossible to sit still . ehile ,she Suspension Act was under discussion, tied not to „attempt an limner ist what had fallen (rotes the Hon. slid Learned Member who spoke last. That Huai Member thought that subsequent events had completely ,lustified the measure. Ile (Sir W. Burroughs) was of a different opinion, and he would state the grounds of that opinion. Look* at the Reports on which the Suspension Act was grounded, he friend, In the iris, that a conspiracy was alleged to have beets formed in London to burn the barracks, to storm the bower, to seise upon the Bank, to destroy the bridges, and, in ,butt, to overturn the Government, and to subvert the order of society. But what were the fiefs that appeared on the trial of Watson and the other prisoners tried in Westininiter.hall ? and how did the evidence given ou that occasion support the representatious of theSeoret Committee? Thecae. spirit . ) , was found to bare beet formeJ by two surgeons without employment, • man of broken fortunes, and two cob'ers. It did not appear that any person of respectability or iiiguence favoured their projects, or .partook of their counsels, or that they had any con . action with other conspirators or agitators in the country. Then there followed a second Report, „ which omitted all mention of the conspiracy in the metropolis. The hand-bills, width% to the murder of the Prince Regent and of the Noble Lord oppo site, of which bOOO copies were said to have been prepared, were uo where to be found. The seat of the conspiracy was, therefore, transferred to the North, and the disturbances which afterwards gave occosioo to the trials at Derby were brought forward. But it appeared that this formidable insurrection was dispersed by the ordinary efforts of the Magis. states ; that the ringleaders were arrested, impri. mined, and brought to trial. The rising took place in / June, the trials took place at Derby ins October, and nothing happened in the interval to excite any alarm, or to call for the 'Nerdse of extraordinary powers. . It was said by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman ' (Mr. Wynn),.that the evidence of previous plots and meetings was not necessary on these trials, but be begged lease to differ with him. The Judges in addressing the Juries on that occasion, laid down the law, and very ereperiy, in his opinion, that a rising for • general and public object constituted the crime fir which the prise/seri were indicted ; and that the only questions on which they were called to decide, related to the overt act of the insurrection, and the • general purpose. Now, to have established by eri• deice the connexion of the prisoners with other con. spirators in different parts of the coontry, frequent meetiogs and common objects would have at once de. cided the wets of their design, which was the only thing as which there could remain a doubt, and the Plr-elOstenF o 'of 'Welt wits the only cireemelosse en which ihelr Counsel rested their defence. If it bad been shown that they were acting io concert with persons at Manchester, at Loudon, at Nottingham, or in Yorkshire, for overturning the Government, the, fact of their having committed High Treason could not have been doubted for an instant. Why, then, was sod such evidence brought forward ? It was not dif. knit to discover the masa". Had the prosecution gone into testimony for this purpose, it would have eppearediebst the insurrection had been arranged and encouraged by the agents of Government. One of the unhappy men convicted on this occasion, nearly at his dying moment, when he might have been sup posed to be inclined to speak the truth, and when be was assured . that a falsohned could have nu infitieuce en his rate r Imputed to the tustigatlen of Oliver the crime for which be was about to stiffer. But, said the Solicieor-General, on , a former night, why did not the Learned COWIN' for the defence of the pri soners bring forward and examine this person, if his evidence was as important? The reason of this is obvious. He could not have been minim() as to their contenting to commit treason, with out proving the treason for which they were ar raigned. He most have been the most dangerous witness they could have celled ; and, if they had pro! duced him, they most have prodoced the moons of their own conviction. Tito admission that they had consulted with him to overturn the Government, would have amounted to a confession of their and depsived them of ail the means of defence. In the second Report of the Committee of Secrecy, they shifted the scene from homiest to Manchester, where the conspirators were to barn tbe town end massacre the inhebitaats. If such were the designs of the men appreiended under the Suspension Act, how could Ministers account to their country for having liberated them witbee a trial? On wbat plea could they be discharged, at first with the idle farce of taking their recapitulate, sod afterwards from their rem:testi minces ? If tide was not a confession that the Minis ters had nothing to produce against the alleged traitors at Manchester, and that the etildifiCEoll which the Report of the Committee in which they were arraigned was otifouniled, they incurred a heavy responsibility for sending beck such dan gerous characters into society. Their conduct was inexplicable on the supposition that the Report was true, and the '36:pension Act could not be justified on the groom! that it was not. No events happened since to justify such a measure. If be might advert to one reelanchnly.eient (which had united the nation in one common expression of sorrow, he might draw from an it irresistible infereisce, that the minds of the People were sound, and that their attachment to the House of Brunswick remained unshaken. — Never in any country was there more sincere or more general tyro/why, and never did any nation more unequivocally waf t , their affection for the fiuntlf of their Sovereign. He (Sir W ham Burroughs) could not Agree that the election of a Commit tee by ballot wqs SO favourable to free enquiry us one by motion. Suppose a Comentttee were to he elected by motion, the Noble lard and the Bight hot,. Gentleman Hr. B. aalkurst/i 41 it was to decide on their owe conduct, might feel a little delicacy stominatiog thetoselye.; whereto a ballot totally destroys this f e'tiog t and though the h o was mode by theroseivet, they might still he on it without attending any -rise of propriety. That the ittoposed Conornitiec iyasilded to bripg in a pnstbumousjus tification of the Suspensini Act, there could he no doubt.-. Could any ether skied be conceived in the eseptiry but an In let:why Sill I The Suspension Act is abrogated, mole be '1 -.ow te — egrier — liT pia ea adlliti to reg watts/ Ihitilaki eis INltiftallf deo iitte4gagvw... lia Zit , lEn i rbiabAritargastirr i l gidotillb el it ttlibred frna elgesitise;, It hwth IMO ailiee4 lowed by the Lion. tientleasetopposite, that the a ' o A gave no new poweetilset only attired titer/ft Orson% and postpol , their trials ' could he brought on wi i greater security. This was the w ha oleo ration of the Art, the Noble Lurid ol fitat.eqrsaiu fvi of w had tale un place under it, and for these a Bill of. aptmuity would be cessary. The cifineipienee wai, Qt t hell' llion that the Parties Ownsa had Opsided to seem r eettaie diorstiaaary.peirens 'ltts • they had elsard: that they had imputed susploon to pe *he lad owllolltod ow eillhe 1 tlm they bed maprivolvect and after beiipx exposed their characters and their lives, wind olio* them no legal reareis. Were^the &liniment themselves wins' oppressed Ilene Ns be their Judges, and after having row, ',feted them on ex-parte evidence, to come to Parliament for e I of fadeemht do a similar hied of eridetice,t• prevent theta I from proving their isooctuce? Sir JOHN SEBRIGHT professed he had voted' for the Suspension and its consequent measures last year, owing to his conviction of the necessity of those measures, and he always had teen desirous of strengthening the hands of Goverament, when he considered such a precaution necessary for the public ,safety. He owed it to himself, and tkat condone which he ever felt disposed to exercise, that in yield kg to the representations of Government, be had LfrNuts! • himself grossly deceived.—[ Load cheering oni the Opposition.]—Let hits nut be misunder. 'stood, or too loudly cheered for an expression he alloald qualify, by sayissg, he found Government it self hod been grossly imposed upon also—[tear!) :N—and this principally owing to their own igen'ts.---. Ha fait it necessary to state, in justice to his public character, that events bad not justified the measures. resorted to in the last Session by his Majesty's blisi sters.—[ifear, hear!] . Mr. ii.L.LISON considered the dying declaratioe of Brandreth to be a gross falsehood, originating with some dangeroes and designing person.. lie had known of several evil-disposed persons employed toeacite dis turbances and disaifection,having been sent from Not., tinghans even into Lincolnshire. However he • oold say, in common no doubt with others, that if Mi.. l sisters did not make out a case satisfactory to bias, be would not grant them an indemnity. Mr. SAVIi.LE complimented the Ministry upon having attended to the suggestion of Parliament in retrenching the Public Espenditure. 'rhos was the best answer to reformers in and out of doors • apply to the Rouse, end redress wilkbe obtained of there 'grievances; for the check remained, thank God, still with the House. He was of no class or party, thanks vs a parent'[ anxious care and unremitting ,serape. and not his own merits. He was that 46.1 tingeieked and prowl character—an independent Member of Parliament.—(Lan4hing )—He wanted nothing from Governmene:A4 laugh)—oi least he had never yet got any thin] bens Government for any vote be had given in that Haulier.—( Loud laugh-. ing and cheering )—lt had been said he hail not voted. last 6ession with Ministry, owing - lb a cert.tin di- . ploatatic friend of his not having been employed by Ministry.—( Laughing )—lle had never been sway. ed by such a motive, sod he felt it a duty owing to himself to make this appeal to all good men ) in and out of the House, in vindication Of his rharscter,and to assure the House he wisest always remain what his parent's careful exertion Itad enabled hine.to be— an independent Member of Parliament.—(Cheering.) Ma FORBES did not think Ministers entitled to much credit for the improved state of the country ; for this, in his opinion, 'rote from the hints they had received its the coarse of the last Session, rather than from any *Origins! measures of their own. He gave them no credit for their forbearance in the ex ercise of the powers vested in them under the Suspen sion of the Habess . Gorpes Act; be rather thought they were culpable in not'selecting for prosecution the men whose speeches instigated the lower orders to acts of violence, in preference to the People them. selves.-4Heue!)—The meaaore of the Suspension, Ile was sure, had the approbation of a great majo. thy of the People of the country—it hid theappro batioe of all sober men--[d laugh]—of all men of good understanding. Tits question being luridly called for, the motions were pet as fellow :—. ' That the Papers presented to the House br order of his finial Higbee's* the Pli , lee Regret, on Tuesday le-1, be refer. test 10 a Committee."--Carried ennatintously. " TAW* Committee be tate of Secrecy."—Carried roast. bimnusly. " That the number he !I."—Carried tromrintow.ly. On the question " That the Cemsait tee be chases by hello'," Mr. BROUGHAM did not mesa to press any otber motion span the House, but measly testate to them the grounds es which for one, be could got agree with that then under consideration. lie passed over all the very cogent !swum which had hewn urged by the Hoe. Member for Binbury on the *object, as well as what had been said by ether Hon. Members. But upon a question so sole= and serious, and so really sad vitally important, be wished to be satisfied upon one point; and that was, how the (louse could be got out of one ditfically by the mod* of ballet.— , Aey Member approving of the motion for a &Putt Committee, and that that Committee should eonaist of a otortain number, and that that enquiry should be laid before them, via. that the papers shoed be Buh -1 milted to that Committee, to him he would offer that qoestion. The questios was, whether the Noble Lord was a fit person to sit upon such Com mittee?—He would pot it to the Noble Lord , himself, whether be was the fittest person ip the world to sit upon that Committee as a member, to try whether or cot certain persons should be deprived of their right of action against himself ? He might ask, why it was cot probable that he might , oat be one of the parties to any action that might be brought by any of them men ? Why might he not be a party upon the face of the very record itself? Sup pose any Member should wish tp put the question to the House, that,bn or any other pie should be • member of that Committee, he wished to know how the mode of appointment by. ballot left them at liberty to discuss such a•questioll ? And if the Noble Lord would point net to him any source or means by which the Orme! the Home could be obtained, that method being pursued, then the objection would lose the • force which at present it seemed to him to possess.— But SOCOrailig to the mode adopted last Sescion, sod according to the common method, there was Re-pas. ability of discussing any question, upon any indivi dual name. • Mr. CANNING replied, that the Noble Lord'i name woild net appear on the retuned lit', unless it was thst same of the sajosity of the 'lope that :~~~ otteliP• bq there, / 0 1 e. 1 44. Pets ponrinurilla the Case ,hot that the ogniaskteilelq,ntt fogad en the decision of the majority of the Itouse. It Was , the venal custom of"Tittiament to bled' arie Committees by bolter; end ittinitt was asty one m ,by whkh. the intlivideal.:diasorot et Miming* MI so ! tindividual Anima could be mete divior.ity obtained was by the mode now ga:posed. Witbin his eoliectiun it was the custom to circulate too lists c 1 4ire fli:Use, one called the Triasury, acid the otirt4 be Opposition; and the remelt always proved t I sereaderfel corresponimace between the actual setae And the individual assent of the Home. He did see any grounds for a departure on the present Jo stance from the ordinary usage of the House, merl for the purpose of affording the opportunity of in individual discussion. Mr. BROUOHAM thought the Right Honour able Gentlesnan bad entirely inisuntierstbod him : 1 1 he was entirely mi s t a k en (s o d if L or d Sid moo th wer e to be present, h e wou ld b ase a dd resse d hi mse lf t o l him, or to the Right Hon. Gentlemen not in bi• place, whom he considered' as more immediately con-1 nected with the Noble Lord's department)— he was, mistakes in supposing that the Noble Lord's name would not he in the Committee, utiles. the very same thing happeued--onless the question were pot and decided by a majority of the Howie. The Noble Lord would early bave a relefive majority : and he might welt* eassidereif in i dffitority,' with a very. hollow majority, if it came to be th o ronghly ?la , .oviteo for be had only to pot more voice: than °chef' perluns had upon the ballot, and his object was accomplished. • Mr. TIERNEY. — " The question of my Hon. and Learned Friend has eertainly received no answer. Now I beg to repeat it : • Shell we here any oppor tunity of taking the sense of the Houscon the same of the Noble Lord, if the Scrutiosbers on the ballot shall have returned his name as haring a relative ma jority on the list ?' In repeating this question, I mean to give no opinioa whatever on the propriety or impropriety of the probable appointment." [This enquiry was and by toad cries of " Qnts lion !"] , The House then divided on the appointment of the Committee by ballot, when the numbers were— For the Ballot l9O Against it • Majority for the Ballot • ' 73 • On our re-admission to the gallery we found Mr. SAVILLE giving notice, that on Tuesday week he would move for teats to bring in a Bill, par ticularly affecting the Landed Itilereslits the Western Counties. The object of the Bill would he to enable landlords to have a facility of recovery against tenants quitting In smear. • -The louse thee-adjourned THE MINORITY 4;tatryz. THE NaIIitINATION. DT BALLOT, OF TiTR-lIECatT 4;011 1 / 1 11ITCE. Hothiagtoo. T. W. FrlloweN Flan. N. Piggott, Sir A. Borrow,, Sir W. Fartherley. J. N. Philips. tie". Brn chum, H. Ferguson, SL !LC. Itemlle, Sir A. Burdett, Air F. Hare.riart, Jerks Scuslartiare. U. P. Burnett, James Heroin, Sir Rt. Ss at.isr&, T. P. Brand. Hon. T. Lasonore. Col. I4Phright, Sir J. B r "'" Ors V.ILOSSAtiI• J. .TietsktajUlusk. G. Cu[omit: - Methuen. P. C. Waldegrave, Campbell. Hon. J. Neva m. Gird W. Houglie.„ 11. in. F. S. Ovekilsitu., Lord Wood, Ald. Polkesr ni•. Lord Ord, WM. J Ahrrerinshie and R. airdne. N. B 'I he Tellers ma„e a mistake and returned 2.) in lcnd of it. REFUGE FOR rgE DESTITUTE. Yesterday evening the Anniversary of thislaudahle Institution was celebrated at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgete-street, whets nearly two hun dred Noblemen and Gentlemen, friends and patrons to the Institution, sat down to a most sumptuons•en tertaiament, his Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Chair, supported on his right hand by the `Right lion. Lord Viscount Sidmouth, and on his left by the Earl of Mountnorris ; we also observed 1 among the company.-- _ _ _ The Lard Bishop of Lend*.. Lend Endley. Lard Kenyon, Lord Cush:ool, Edward Protheriw, Esq. M. P.. Alderman Birch. Birch. Rothschild, Esq.. Samuel Josephs, ){. q., Somme' dewlap's's. Ks+ and oeveial other Bai ken and Mercheats. The object of titie Institution is to provide a place of refogeittad reformation for persons who have been discharged from prison or the hulks, unfortunate and deserted females, and others who, though willing to work, are unable, from loss of character to earn an honest livelihood. Within this Asylam—they Are withdrawn from the paths of vice, temptation, and necessity ; they are taught to renounce their former habits of life, to partite industrious employments, to form Resolutions of pestilence and reformation, and en return to society with rammed beerts and amend. ed lives. fitter die cloth was mewed, Noes *obi. Ramie* was sung in excellent style by Igessrs,Tayler, Bryant, Terrail, Barclay, Evans, Clarke, Leete, &c. After , the usual toasts or the " KinK"—" Cliseets"--T Prince Regent," Ste. Ste. each of which was fel', lowed by an appropriate glee or swig by the read perfwrosers, and some sprightly music by the Duke of Gloucester's Band, which were stationed in the Musa; Gallery,. the Duke of York, Load Sichnouth, and Mr. Bosauquet, made very able and appropriate speeches. The state •of the Society (from the Report) we! .most gratifyieg. The subsoriptiens, we are happy to announce, exceeded 10001. Among the donations we noticed— A nifae not al liberty to be oseolitesed £6OO 0 • -•---.l.nek. Esq. 10 l 0 The Dole ..f York 50 0 The Earl of Bridgewater d 0 0 Lord Si know h 4.5 0 The Wm. W Milo Glover 10 10 . Mr. Alderman Birch . 10 10 The Duke of York left the Chair about kill . ..past 10 o'clock, and the company enjoyed the festivity to a late hour. • • LAW INTELLIGENCIL 3 COURV or KIND'S BENCH. Few 5. NOVEL. OCCURRENCE. A man was brought op to ,eceise jedgment en sc. count of an assault committed by him. Upon tieing ilipeatetlly asked whether he would plead Guilty 'or Mot Guilty of the offesice with which be wee chimed, Metonym was ; .that her* been deloused At. gm • time In white the effeare allegedageitst bin wet se to, base taken phce, he could ea pialtietly answer Whether he wilt gailty t i t. not, 'last -4bgl t toOpps•ti that be bed emeeitted tle+toffenCe with• whith he wat charged. Wig held that according to laW he Mitt peeild fi4llooisilty -or hook, Orad to give t dirttfyieeleete 111r..*stice 41.tt r i g e i( allow. ed Wan tease minded vita tit beak do r of neat 'artier that he m&jt by that time make ep his mind whether to plearGuirly or TIM WINO N. 114. BURN. The Defe ndant bras brp.imht.uNfor jsuilgment, bar. ing suff e re 'd it to go by default. on a charge of pro wit]; a Commissiso for'att Officer in his Majesty's service, contrary to the Statute In that tikae mad, and provided. Many 'affidavits of *vend 'esprit - - able pepons were road, certifying sereagly ip fattier of the Defendant's horieerabie character ip itperni, and stating it as their belief, that if he sed comfit. tril any offence, it originated from' hit goieniiele the law against which he had transgressed. His Coons Tel bating requested dose, In order to / wore that the Act d rarliaustmt ander wisichbo wee charged did nok,opoty.to bis,, thw Court, with tise concurrence of j4l• ' .Apogimx-pipff.!, frit that the Detlant. should be gain propfilki ep " neat Monday. TIM KING V. t tltV CORPORNVOMNIP trotilioctot. A motion watimade for a, rule tw set aside a &sow one sbt aiu ed egoists . -she C.40.4410u of..l4ebeea• mentioeed Uorough. : Several affidavits store pot is in opposition to those yea -which the tie for a . Mandamus was obtained. 7 " • The affidavit of the Gentlemtn ohe Nrishes444B - May or of the Eloroegii.' stated, tbat•Mt. -Wow • Weston, the wit% Magistrate in dot ceps 4, span being asked whether he had taken the Saco• meta within a year previous to his election, had tow turned a doubtful answer, inconsequence of which, and also because he was not an inhabitant of the 166 rough, receptions were taken to him. The affidavit of the Attorney foe Mr. Oakley, whb claimed she office of Meyor in (minion, misted that it had been agreed on by the parties eoncerned, .that the title of Mr. Weston to the Mayoralty should be sebmitted to the consideration of bis Majesty's Attor• hey and Solicitor-General, whose opinion should be decisive on the subject. Their opinion went to saythat Mr. Weston was ineligible to the Mice which *held, in cousegeence of his not having taken the. Sacra. agent during any part of the year which immediately preceded his election. The Court, however, did not set aside the former rule, both as it appeared that Mr. Weston had complied with tee required core.. molly on the Seadey esbsegeent so Mr election, end because Mr. Oekleyf by attending a Coverate Meet. jug of the Borough, at which M. Weston acted ? as its Mayor, had thereby virtually acknortiedged right to act in that capacity. • FItRIVUII PAPERS. • PARIS, FEB. 2. One of the Secvelatiql.,to lid Spanish Embassy at Londe., passed a few days Ales through Bayonne, on his *my to Madrid, With cial intelligence of the capture of Mina, andet t 1 i• circumstances already k sane o. k • • • • •• .1 The .Mewerial Hordelais of the 28th alt. etstss, that the Duchess d'Augouleme is expected at dean= nest month. The Baron Muffling has arrived at Pack. The English Ambassador 'etas a pin& bill alt evening. It is stated from Petersborgh that the Moe of be grain exported daring the last year from all the ports of Itesela, to the different Stites of Europa which were in want of it, amounted to 125.000,000 roidAis. The reports respecting Medenie. Manson are very contradictory, it being stated, on the one heed, that she maintains an obstinate silence on the subjeet oI the assauination, and, on the other, that she has atotti important disclosures. ZURICH, JAN. 24.—Ali Osman, the Agent of the Pacha of Egypt, who bas been visiting our menuftim. tnries, is shoo, it is understood, to proceed to St. Gall, and from thence to the Canton of Appease!, ,where be will find • many workmen ready to be ea. gaged to proceed to Egypt. The Mystic Societies assembled, and excited dor. ing the residence of Madame do Krucicner in Switf. Berland, continue to make proselytes in the Cantons of Turgnvia and Schaff hewn, and although those assemblages are prohibited by the-Governments, yet they clandestinely take place. They anuounce tad ,approaching end of the world, the .coming of Anti. Christ, &c. Several works have been published, de. 'eloping their doctrines. Several perxont from ibis Canton frequent these chiedeltinemioetings. • The following is estractedtrom the.Aurertr(Philit. sistlphia Paper), •and stated to be the racy. of et tome from a British Officer, doled V.ers Criss. clo. "This city is .rep now its &most euesordissery sites• lion; notwitlwanding that the) spe ik so 'Ducts shoat ito strong walls ? its . eight .liastitint, and allote• all i • famnits Cottle 6f St. John - d'Ulloe, the inbsbitaiks of this city dare not sentare beyond Aim range of their cat nt-shot ; and the whole c0unt4,1611 1 ,00. ptsesessioss of the Indepandents„esco c pticgsoose ntqled. ,towps like this, on the fiord! and rest side Urthia r kingdois ; and the . communication between this Oita and Medico f, is danger of being again cat 0111...' l'he journey to that city .hence was formerly petioles- Isedin 70 boars,. sad in perfect secerity, over en" et the finest ! road; in the nuiferse; them is no traseijilli new without a powerful escort ‘ and.it requires abyet a fortnight. Tlie knyal'gtsiriion . and army ot' Sit descriptions, horse, foot, and artillery of this city aid its boasted fortrVis, does not 'impost to gay map some of w hpro are. ‘ridiesstqaosne negromand Tory fent white men, who appear uot.to kisow tight entl.yt a musket. In. a word, the ahoy of MeOco is in an unequivocal state of revolution, and the question of the complete independence and expulsion of the Rigid Authorities and troops is orgy prevented by the waht of sews, ammonition, and a kw MOO 000vermmta in the principles of military police s had prganixation;+ such as would pot their parities at the same time to .motion slid in sohortrination." . • Mr. John Sheet. said to hi the *sly remaining sottlier or those employed ander (;en. W.,lfe, at the siege of Quebec, died a -few diys ago at etuneck, in Stetiossishiee, in .the,B9th yes . ; of his jigs. &OM ofrcveigd a pro there fur shoat aq yeas. .6 .:~t; ci A '• •