The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-02-10 00:00:00

rim -- ~.. . • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, F. 2. L f ord Ribblesdale took _the oaths and his seat. The Scots Appeal Cause, Craigdallie v. AiLtuan v was heard hi continuance, viz. Mr. R. Grant, at treat length, as second Counsel for the Respondent. To proceed again to-morrow. CATOOI,II* CLAIMS. Lord Viscount SIDNIOLITH presented Petitidni from the Towns of Harwich and Warrington re. spectively, praying that the Catholic Claims may not be acceded to. Ordered to lie on the table. EAST INDIA QUESTION. , Lord Viscount 11 FA., VILLE presented a Petition from the Merchants, Traders, and Others, of the City of Edinburgh, against the continuance of the East In dia Company's Monopiily. His Lordship also presented a Petition from the Town and Port of Greenock.to the same effect, and praying that the Petitioners may be allowed a participation in those commercial rights to which they conceived all the subjects of the realm were moan) entitled, &c. These Petitions being read, were ordered to lie on the table, as was one to a similar effect, presented by Lord ROLLE, from one of the Ports of Devon -shire, the name of which we could not collect. INSOLVEN'T DEBTORS. Lord REDEiDALE coesented a Bill for the Re lief of Insolvent' Debtors in England, shortly ob._ serving, it was similar to that which he had the ►e. sour of proposing, and which passed their' Lord= ships' House last Session. The Bill was forthwith read a first time. Adjourned'. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the meeting of the House this day, a Ballot took place for• the election of two Committees to hear evidence and report to the House upon the Pe titions presented against the late elections for tke Boroughs of Shaftesbury and Weymouth and Mel combo Regis. • The following Gentlemen were then chosen upon the first Committee : Colonel Bastard Henry Br Ogden, tsq. Henry St Paul, El. John Calven, koq. Thos. Grosvenor, Esq. Lord Arthur Somerset Earl Gower Charles Deeds., Fsq. George Poreher, Esq. Wm %with, Eeq. . Win. Egerton, k.q. John Black borne, Esq. Barton Loa; add, ',sq. J. H. Smith, Esq. On the second Committee the following Members were chosen : Albany Saville. Esq. t Sir Charles Morgan John Jackson, Esq. Samuel Scott, Esq. Rohm 11.wris. Esq. John Atkins, Esq. Sir John Perri n- James M'llonald, Esq. Lord Hiabehinbroke Robert Mathew, Esq. • Lunt Broke H. Gasford, Esq. We could not, in the Gallery, distinctly bear the names of the remaining two Members, but both Committees took the Oaths prescribed by law, and proceeded to the rooms where Contested Elections are decided. A huitiber of Petitions were presented for leave to brinz in Bills to amend certain private and local Acts of Parliament. The kteport of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and on the Resolutions being read, Mr. WHARTON observed, that the only item in the Estimates, which differed from those of last year, were from the appointment of a Judge to assist the Judge Advocate, in New South Wales. Mr. WHARTON and Mr. CROKER presented several public Accounts of Expenditure in the Trea sury and Naval Departments.—Ordered to lie on the table. LOCAL TOKEN BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved its being read a second time. Lord ARCH. HAMILTON shortly expressed Lax opinion of its inefficacy to grant that relief to the community at large, of which they stood so much in need. Mr. PONiONBY, seeing the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in his place, expressed a wish to know, whether it was in contemplation.to extend a similar law to Ireland, as theeutreucy of that coun try was in a deplorable state. Mr. W. FITZGERALD . SahI, all he had meant was this: The Noble Lord (Lord A. Hamilton) having called the attention of the House to a Meet ing held iu Dublin in the last week, at which it was resolved, that a formal communication should be made to Government, stating the distress experi enced for small change, and the Irish Government having received accounts from different parts of the country of the great scarcity of silver, he differed from his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer for England) so far; that he was not willing to discourage the circulation of .Local Tokens in Ireland, however necesiarpt - mlght be to oppose them in England, where a greater quantity of a more legitimate circulating medium was in circulation.— Actiug taus, he did not differ in principle from his Bight Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer for England), as he, in stopping the circulation of local tokens in this country did it with a view of throwing discredit on an inferior circulating medium, and the measure which he (Mr. W. Fitzgerald) had it in contemplati6n to propose for Ireland, would go not to throw-discredit on .a better circulating medium, but on a worse, as it would go to throw the silver notes or as' gnats which were current there, out of circulation. His opinion was but that of an bll- . vidual ; hut he had thought it might be proper to pass an act to allow local tokens to be issued in Ire land, or to ext..nd the circulation of the local tokens The Right distress prevailed the two cow dell so dis — . [A 'Gum ltici► , ' ted anTicipet( hopes were speke of further Wen and he shoal/ Be wished. cellor of thi whether it _ measur, posted to be so.dilferent, he thought. if would be de sirable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should postpone his measure, until that of the Hight Hon. Gentleman should be brought forward. • Mr. FITZGERALD had stated the distresses of Ireland to be great ; but if his recollection served him, he had not us ed auy word that implied that paper was the general currency of the country ; all. he had said was, that such was the circulation of particular parts of the country; he was now aware of 'the indiscretion'of using the vrord assignats. The present Bill applied to the local tokens in England— there were none in Ireland.- Ile had been obliged to refuse their, importation at Waterford, unless they,: paid the duty as wrought silier; not because they would operate against paper, but because the, 'could not•othernise be legally imposts& .He m* . agree with the necessity of. extending the. Bill, an had ; ' b r , , CADIZ MAIL. GENERA STAFF. To the Generals in Chief of the National Armies, I this day address the following : y, ..respoo• already issued in this country to Ireland. The time sible fur tn..ir conduct But who does not see that —.lnch he would propose such a measure should tho . G,nietal who eo,amliids,the army, of asvather us fnroe„ with other circumstances, he tion, whose Covernment may communieAte to him unnecessary to explain before the Bill was,, orders contrary to those he receives fromoOr's, is morally incapacitated from exercisibg any authority iiiTBRUD supposed, that his not under. in our army, tmlOss it qhall he said that Our orders the Right lion. Gentleman, arose from his are to give way to hid ? Who does not perceive, that of - 'oil - Ile did • , t shold• Ifs- such author. . _ comprehension. . _ not see p shold. to confer , .drity. on:it persoe, who cantiot be stiice whiCh he (4J, how the = Hight Hon: deptived•of it without the datiget).or involving the could call his opinion the opinion of an nation in a new war, is both impolitic and unionsd , a•ly opini'm which 1.0 gasp in that House, tutiooal, If this Generashotta!, ,ossidered as the opinion at the Chancellor he cannot be made • • ,: tt:s„ ono,. ‘chisiver•for Ireland, he having ascrued voluntarily submit judgment —[l tear, hear n -And he had spoken of law. lt may perhaps accoUling . circulation of Ireland,us so hese, so low; expression of the la ist of n9thing bor.& parcel 'of piper at- Bible; that respossil 1i,•,• I:on erer, preltosed to supply them tory when the 41 tokens, but without thing their value.- i ' kin/Maga chit war. metallic noising' instead of paper ones. ! ever is acquainted . LETTER or,Tne CESS OF WALES tofu 'SINCE' REGENT. Sit s --it N with great reloctapce that r presu me myself upon your Royal Highness, and proceed_ your attention to mattere :witkoh „,L a y, c rs o t u h l e d r . tl f in a k Pe t n he o us na so l th-,-11118 ilithAPylth:ei‘nlatPlad-t _ afterwards tisiy-only ? , mil employed it to ensure perpetually theictellow t • , the more jealous 4 ,reere: v y hi t c o h myself t - • - gi l w s:se ct is ti ld east abs nees tai: o f r ro i m nter e citizens. Tie Maio free men are, will t t he he y y a be te o id f i th h a t ir tet li ee hert m i e es yl and the more carefully log ei...ifianOr them. • What , more weighty occupatioris of your Royal Highness's Englishman would endure to me such powers as we ' time. I should continue, •in silence and ref Irenient, isasss granted to Lord Wellington, granted, in his to lead the life which has been prescribed to nre, and ' console myself for the loss of that societyand.th ase ;country, to a foreign General ? If there were one, ,i be would not only be unworthy to be en English. stranger, by the reflection that it Ms been de eme d man, but to be a .freeman ; and can it be wondered domestic conforts to which I h ate to l oog been a al, that a Spaniard should entertain the same senti. *eats.? And are. their souls so degraded, as not only proper I should be afflicted witheat any fault of my not 10 entertain them, but to consider it as a crime in own—and that your Royal Highness knowi it. others that they do entertain dotal" 1 64 Bat, Sir, there'are considerations are Sikher nature than any regard to my own happiness; 'which render this address a duty both , to Myself and my Deegbter. May I venture to say-4 duty also to my Husband, and the People committed to his tare? -- IRISH CATHOLICS. CATROLIO 7essenv. tn. & • MA#CDONKULL. lien. in the Chair. A eonsidembie tine, oecepird In the reading las Mr. ' There is a point beyond whit% a gaittiesiciosn yet deprecate its principles, n hich•iie . . Shown, ~ received f rom r. j and - disc ussing era special letter; 1 ' , - postponing his assent to it to the last moment. — ern tig a . m, the Secretary of the Board of English Ca nnot with witet7 carry bet ftwheieulm If her With the views entertained by the Gentlemen oppo. .., honour is invaded, the defence of her reputation is site, he did S not see hoW they could object to the et- Catholics. tension of local tokens to Ireland.—lle had made his Mr. O'Conims. called the attention of the meet- , no longer_ a ma tt er o f c h o i ce; an d i t s i gn ifi es not ' ' first observations in consequence of the remarks of Ing terms important interview which lately took place, : w h et h er the attack be made openly, .manfully, lad • iii London, between LordCistlereash and Mr.Charies the Noble Lord (A. Hamilton) on the Irish Meeting, directly—or by secret insinuation, and by holdin of Lincoln's Inn, at his Lordship's request. BOXII conduct towards her u countenances all the g , and with a view to inform Gentlemen opposite, as I lit t leri It appeared by Mr. Butler's letter to Mr. Grattan, • . . . suspicions that malice can suggest. If these well as his friends near him, of the real state . of the detailing the conversation, that he has prepared and to bathe feelings of every woman in England case. deposited Kith Lord Castlereagh the draft of an Act Some farther conversation took place between Mr.- , of Parliament, to be passed this Session, for the re- , is conscious that she deserves no reproach, Whitbread and Mr. Fitzgerald. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER of- Peal of all the Penal Laws against the oman Catho. Royal Highness has too sound a judgment, and lic body, and, that his Lordship gladly un d er t oo k to feted a few observations, after •which the Bill was I nice a sense of honour not to pe 're ho $ $ w , take it into his most favourable consideration. ;more justly they belong to. the Mother of ) committed for Fr?day.—Adjourned., I Whilst these interesting subjects were under con- Daughter—the Mother of her , who is destined, sideratinn, the rooms gradually became crowded ; with numbers awaiting Mr. Fitzsimons': expected , trust at a very distant period, to reign over the r motion ; among them we obsersed the Earl of Fin. ! tish Empire. gall, who took a manly and feeling part in the de- i "IS may be known to your Royal Highness, bate; Mc Sheridan, Scull O'Connell, Mar Assts.. . .1y, ....Chi, •- —ion, The army is already Wormed, that the command O'Gorman, and others, severally addressed the of all those belonging to Spain has been conferred Chair; and Nally, it was directed, that a courteous upon the C.ptain General of the same, the Marquis and respectful answer be sent to Mr. E. Jerninghant, of Wellington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo. ' by Mr. Hay, the Secretary to the Board. Although this is the first time his Excellency has .. Mr. FITZSIIIONs then rose, and premised his mo had the honour of announcing himself to the armies tion by a speech of masterly statement and splendid as their General in Chief, he has for a length of diction, which excited universal applause. He con. time been acquainted with their merit, their exer- eluded by meanie— tions. and their condition ; and upon taking upon St: tenant a s' . ti . e in Pena l rLaws, D io e h at ie i r ed a l f ',Tit Th t fr e d e Pa h rt elre; th e himself the, discharge of a command so highly ho- lreleend, and published at The Dub li n Journal &Bee. is a gruel ! insurable,' wishes to assure the Generals, Chiefs, and defamatory mis-ststesseaL purposely contrived for the put ' Officers, and troops, that his measures will be di. en‘r of slandering our priociples, misrepresenting our coa -1 9 plaints and counteracting the growing libelality of our fellow- , *fleeted to enable them to serve the country with ad. „w e d s. " vantage, and that the honour of the profession mar 1 Ite. O'Goimats seconded the motion at consider prosper under his command. • !able length. . Nevertheless, it is very oecessary, that whilst . M r . A 0 vi...ONNELL, Dr. MO/WOOLS, Mr. Maxon, Government pay , the greatest attention to every thing which relaxes to the well being of the troops and o- and other Members, dwelt upon the traitorous ten which and odious nature of the deception thus at. cers of the armies, military discipline and the royal tempted by official bigotry. orders should be maintained in all their force, be- , Mr. ScuLLY concurred in the propriety of Mr. cause without discipline and order, not only is an army not in a condition to make head against an Fitzsimons's motion, and expressed particular satis faction at the masterly speech which prefaced it.— enemy, but it becomes a burthen prejudicial to the State which Eupports it. Mr., S. then proceeded with a long and very able speech, in which he showed clearly that the actual ! The General in Chief, therefore, I.npes that the 44 Statement of the Penal Laws" had been published, I Generals and Officers of the army w1;1, on their part, not from any factious motives, but in consequence make every possible effort to cement and maintain Alf silested calk an d challeages discipline in all its vigour, accordiug to the Roy al from the writers I supposed and known to be in the interest and confi seders, on all occasious 4st -service ; assuring them, dence of the Irish Government. He then anima& 1 that at the peeper 'time, with the greatest satisfac- HAI, he will call flu? attention of Government ; rented with proportionate reprobation upon the base i and pitifil trick of fabricating a pretended cond. praising their conduct on all fit opportunities, he nnation of the work, and endeaiouring to throw. will not fail to point out any want of attention on the part of the officers in the fulfilment of their re- discredit on the Catholic Body br imposing it and treating it as genuine. spective duties with 'regard to the military code, as The motion was then put by Mr. MACDOI4NtLL, well as all want of discipline and good order in the troops; all which I transmit to your Excellency by and D ru uanimously carried. . Sneridan, Messrs. Scully and Fitzsimons, order of his Excellency the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, for your information and fulfilment as far as it con- were appointed a Committee for carrying it into ef fect, to report to the Board at the next meeting, on cerns you. (Signed) LOUIS WIM PFFEN. Saturday, the 6th of February. Cadiz, Jan. 5, iBl3. Director-Get:end uf ' Artillery. I Adjourned to Saturday.—(Dublin Evening Post.) i . ' • The Paper entitoled Et Tribuno del Pueblo Espn- I . The following is the character given of Sir SAMUEL MI (the Tribune of the Spanish People),contains ob. . ,D. of Rommy, by Dr. P4aa, in a work which he pelt servations at considerable length, on the • D Hilted a few years ago, entitled 66 Philopatris Dar , the Cortes, of the 6th of Janoary, passed on the ricensis." Alluditig to his Bill for altering the Cri application (las solicitudes) of Lord Wellington, bon- mioal Law, he saya---" As to Sir SAssuat t ßOmit.. stituting him Getteetrhio-Chief et-- 311` is i t o : , I t lo o olse isho for his oo hlo.olfors...i.,sostoipoto armies. The writer 'c'..);:ei yes, that -"._ every good the happiest effects from the example. of his success. Spaniard must certainly, at all events, support the and I suppose that his reputation Will not descend sovereign Congress. - •We may attack its errors, but to posterity with much less advantage than that of We must be careful not to destroy the institution.— other contemporary sages. He is eminently ilutili- At the same time, we should assert the liberty of get, to balance the harm and the good, nor will he speaking like freemen, and 'pointing out to our Re- suffer any insidioat be dogmatical application of •prestotatives' what we conceive to be errors, that Muds remark, to deter him from stripping our Pe they may.;mend them. All institutions are com- nal Code, as fsr as he can, of all unnecessary severi posed of • men subject to the imperfections of. human ties. 'He will keep in view the least probable hattn, nature. in fine, the nation which has not a Repro- •and theireatest probable good. The activity of Sir sentatite Body, cannot lte free." .The writer then :S. 01. will preserve the lives of my fellow-creatures.'" proct , ecis to animadvert on the Decree, which he af- ! A Caait:•:—A Gingerbread Caketnan •in Cornitill arms, 46 paces Spain under a military government, ; hi v i ng h o d th e tp o , er ity and is not only contrary to particular articles of the; to publish, that . the'Ticket .7731 was the only Prise of %0,0001, sold in theiast Constitution, hot to its whole intent ; since it provides tottery fundatneo.al!y, that all the Authorities shall be to the Public, T. Rim thinks it proper to :It 0/ during the continuance of therestrictions upon royal authority, I purposely refrained from maki any representations which Might then augment Ipainful difficulties of your exalted station. Al expiration of the restrictions I still was inclined delay taking this step, lit the hope , that I might Ithe redress I sought to your gracious and unsoUi condescension. I have waited, *.n the fond k genre of this expectation, on:11,. to my inespressi mortification, I find that lay unwillingness to plain, has only produced fresh grounds of , .1 plaint ; and I am at length compelled, either abandon all regard for the two dearest objecti I possess on earth, thine own homier, and my loved Child, or to throw myself at the feet of - • Royal Highness, the natural protector of both. 64 I presume s Sir, to represent to your Royal Highness, that the separation, which every succeed. ingAnnth is making wider cif the • Mother and Daughter, is equally injurious to my character tto her education. I say nothing Of the deep wo , I *hich so cruel an arrangement indictssupan my ings, although I would fain hope that few per , be found of a dispOsition to think light!), tbeie: To see myself cut off from one of the few domestic enjoyments left me—certainly the one upon which set any value, the society of Child—involves me in such misery, as I well kr your Royal Highnesi could never inflict opop me . ,you_were aware of its bitterness. Our intercaure his, been gradeally diminished. .4 .single inters; iveekly'seemed sefficiently hard allowance for a ther's affections.-,-That, bower*, Was 'radtwed k our meeting once a fortuight ; and I now learn even.this most rigorous interdiction Is to be still mo rigidly enfOrc,ll. " But while I do , not venture to intrude nitre ings ass Mother upon your Royal Highness's not**, I must beallowsl to say, that in the eyes of an .. .Serving and jealous world, this separation of Daughter from her Mother will only admit of ettnaliweilon fetid to the' Mother's - reputation. Yoließeyel iligheess will also pardor me for adding, that there is no less inconsistency injustice in this treatment. He who dares advise y Royal. Highness to overlook the evidence If my nocence, and disregard the sentence of complete quitted which it producedse-or it wiclied sad ' enough still to whisper suspicions In your ear, tars his duty to you, Sir, to your .Daughter, and your People, if he cOuosels you to permit a da pass without a furthet investigation ,of my conduct. Elfriow that no such calumniator will venture to commend a measure whiCh must speedily end in Lifter confusion. Then let me implore you to reflect state, that on the 10th of November, 1812 ' he par- : - -.- ,_ chased of . the ContractosiOn a lot of 200 Tickets, !on the situation in which lam p ie ce d i w i t hout the number 1070, which he, the next dy, divided ! shadow of a charge against me—without even en . Into One Quarter, T*o ,Eights,- and Eight Sixteenth - i ctiser—after an,Euquiry that led to my ample . vindi. yet treated as if 1 were still mire,kuipable Pares, as CIA ha ,fraved at the Stainp . Olfiee.—The : o r roh .:„, whole of those Shasei were in a few days sold, 'and tbanthe perjuries i i , r Ticket, 107 Q was of my suborned tradacera repre -oft the ibtk _of 'lastsinnuth, drawn a Motor- WPM.. 'Mk l.l6o4 l iOtes ' prep sentad.to, and held up to the world as a Moth's 'her - • Child. seetidllt, paymentiiPigtpcAbritrter, 'rworighths, wittsimay s not enjoy the society pf i only sAd TlVleSiiteelitht; .we're-paid las usual, .•n " fr-tti feetings : Sir,. which are .natural t• any Tut 0106111 AL exaniPled situation, might justify me in the gracious , : t e d all o t Q u t ffi e " or ite pow n n od Pt 3 . Lifigolten I Of your Royal Highness, had ; no ot! money on ex t r k,o f ont motisettor.adtkeising you but sash as . to my. necessary.,tiLattnch . 64' air. guy will not disguise frame 'yeti, Royal security of lice lilighne s what.l .coonot for a moment corms, front. "Eni ro !! that.. the , serious, and it soon,may 11 . 1414 '..,a,..L ` mnewgr irreparsbleriwfttryWhiolf my Daughter' sustains from T. 111111. I the plan at present panned, his dope tiort.lo astir- si th cis ct 1! es fo In La for which h vomits in thought it t brou4lst Mr. Wil standing tin own W 8 it o lug the odic Grath-mass individual; must be COu of the Elio that office.- the general as so consi , st.;►als! 1 weih tacal t that was, ' ' .• • - • • ~, , • • ... .: .•, . •- . - IyrATESMAN. ' • . . . . . , It Him. Gesitiemen bad Conkmend Veit 'naval, caned doubt.inst be will set according to the Irevalled in Ireland; old tbit - -tels 4t .lewi it must Obadmitted that his responsibility does . !muffles was so different, and t . dliet. 'not depend epos the Constitution, but e his owe issimilak, that they required two p . Mg probttys .. In the meet despotic form of ' n ' "" r PRINI igh.3-7Tkecliagetior of tut , accti g ues. ! the bilge' May he wirttegs,lo.notooppresilat sub. nl an issue i ot Inlet from the Bank, ,eild bk . iret4tbst Kolas duCtorm arrkirentillelgebithingua l . ' oNI re better k roiindect Pow than when .be lait the tithe*, cannot call-themselves free:. . . , ,a - J the subject,. but ,till. he ' should veto for t i " 7 9ne moment of error'bini often cost mikes &. • ;xtension of tie Bill until he saw theism!, . Whole ages of mileptiti o s :it Is not easy to depths a - anti -41 iould advert toll& point In the Comilittere • CommeaderOf unlimited power, whin it' is .nce to !obtrude ,m; d:to know whether the plan of the C h an ; conferred egsgplos t Did co t bock Cater and Na." :to solicit you the Exchdquer for Ireland was digeiileti; or! poleon, when they - steamed such a Power, aeclare, :.gries. a ppea r 1 t was merely floating; as the measures pur.- that tinty-ealf, tooltit for a time; yet, afterward!, I ture if i , be so different. he thought if would be de- :. mil employed it to enslave perpetually their fellow. ! _ 7. . - war, is boib impolitic and ukonstl derailed, and leer ► be seen, writt is Genera shonici,cormuir any err•ro.. u ar r . of 3 , c,ornifin:,,t r. ..The Stamp 144. resppesible unit*, he will . as y.*),oo(yogiri s nami r hawked al nit himself to the judgment of the l oo k y pewit. ildh• money Thaps tat accorflivig. twthe i t or Wit It ? WOOL' tleciiesst le law, Lord *ldlio6to 4o reePfloa Tieket at i begat'', Oillte for the however, must ba nwes• P+i6fic.; AU . :oStsflytitilit„,ghLros: L "has power to enferea _ att ear, If it shouldlie odd; that who. pfespn •t o • d with the virtues of this Go. 4 e, Contain, or 9, Cwrl-Crow. se ought to ad who your sti and-too io, of your kit tined, I lee the Bd. by ms, that Cr an your $o making tht eat the ant At the lied to but ght owe doi solicited Of idol. Pr; Iressible tha to coin. bet g corn. 4 ther to ioo i which tat my be. ma f your eat b. ern Royal obt ucceed. tim ad the to ter and I wounds iF sy feel• he persons -tat illy of tal , J he • very yet ie only abo or my I k now f soli 1 . ea Mann) ' V terview ea a Mo. 44 Wed is he rn 1 i g fl mbre .re! E y feel. 'Vt nonce, he an ob. .ee i of a of one • hi other's er pardon eci :y than od *your my inp , ‘ei ate as it false and to 64 day to Indict. ntt to MR , in his ‘„ reject s r wt the 111 lac an IVA . • ti ,o, . re! repro. PP lid. pct hr ' ut other si ▪ my. • as Royal a . t from • • the he from • beet.