The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-04-04 00:00:00

raysseseestarje cSaffilltddfrollriglMW changed the mod" of *wades of As liteisdettlat of foreign corn; but he threw from bistatlttod yyery, part of the Committee be was mire would WM/ Sim; that it wes.ariy part of his object to eidao.tbe- ride Of cars.-e(Heer). - Mr. &STERN perfectly eolitelded wtdi his notate - able Friend opposite (Hr. F. Lewis), that the. rable Colo an itter did not dowry' the center' of hje Hooon Friend below.him (Hr. Ellice.) It was to eft of their to business to touch upo n the q uestion of Utilities. nor gd deeply into the causes of the present state of thiogs. He could not however secede to his Honourable Friend' opposite, that the Committee was right to their recom mendations to the House. He concurred with them in. principle, butnot is the meals. At Ilse those time be must say, that it was net fair. to represent dm object of m te Committee to be to raise the price of corn. • The Ch1,•131;f41 recom mended by the Committee was, io his ooinien, incompetent to its end, and would only teed to placer the farmer in a worse condition than lee was be fore. He knew the spirit of it was to relieve list. sad, place him in a better tondition. bet the thimmittee .was egregiously mistaken in the means they proposed va: to a dopt. It would only i the dienuy which in riably reigned amongst the agilculthralists, and io hie opinion had better have been left alone a nd so be was sure the House and the country would think. Although . it might in the course of years wove beneficial to the British grower, by insatiate an adequate supply to make up the defideney, it was inoet impolitic at presest.— • Such was the state of the Continent, anti of the cur- Inley at home, that it • was quite impossible to say how the duty would operate; end it was problematical. He * • was not sorry that the discussion hail arisen, however misplaced it 'night be thought. When be saw the in creasing difficialties of the country, from one end to the other pressing every day more heavily. be did thigh . . that if he had the power, he should feel himself booed to exerciee it, in reviving again and again the discus sion. It had been the paramount duty of the Roue* 'to look into the extraordinary situation of the re. • 'sources of the eountry.—(llear,hear.) He had made an 'assertion there on a former night, which hail since been confirmed by his coustithents, with whom he bail conversed on the subject. He had said, that if the farm-, ors of the county to which h e belon g ed were new called upon to make up their accounts, nearly two-thirds of them would be found in a state of insolvency, It was• admitted that this statement was not tpo strong, their capital had' been so exhausted by the circutnstances in width they lwel lately been placed. He considered it to • he morally impossible to look at this q uestion without freiog fiat the alteration of the currency was materially c lanceted with it, and to the Act of 1819 an hauling* portion of the difficulty must be ascribed. They now began to hear of this on all hands. He had read the speech of the Right Hon. id cubs: for Chichester. Look! angst the eUstresaes of Wel and 1817, that Right lien: Gentleman *tetra them to have arisen " from over trad ing. combined with the elf •ct of the alteration of the cur rency." What portion of it arose from the eking, of Ice currency he hail not stated, but he had admitted that that was in part the cause of the evil. At this moment , he considered moth 'of the distr.)* se hick pervaded the' land to be ova:jotted by the alteration of the currency. But be was told that a, superahundaat -produce had camed similar sails to be experienced in France. On this subject be bad conversed with persons from France 'oh whoro be could rely, and he there found, that *hough corn was sailing at a lose price, those distresses had not . . 'teen felt which were cousphdoed of in this country. ..Tkor-rdat of land, the price of labour, and dos nine produce generally had not fallen - there as it bad done Ittilogland, one had iron.eoppect:lnedsaJiit. iodised as they had with as. But in this country netwolyltod 'agricultural produce fallen, but the value of articles r ' luridly, and of all stock is trade bad declined in pro portion. This he imputed to the combined eperaike the at: of 1797 and 1819, which in the first instance immensely extended the circulating medium, • and paved the way for as increase of taxes. and then con tracted the currency leaving the nachos to pay in Sterl ing money that amount of taxes which had been his •posed. and to fulfil those contracts which had been made with reference to a depreciated currency. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite bad said, no man would talk of giving up the Actor 1819 He would say, that lie thought the distresses of the country would force them to give it up. Every thing be saw led him to the conclusion thit Par liament must retrace their steps. He proceeded to show what had been the operation of the Act of 1797. Before that Act passed, the price of wheat bad been about the sane for 150 years. At the beginning of the 18th cen tury it had been low fur a number of years; but in 1792, before the war broke out, the price was about that which had been the aeersge price for 150' years. Re tWeen 1192 atid•ltilll, the price of wheat was doubled. This could only be caused by the numerous taxes itnt posed between those years from the great alteration in she value of money which had been effected by the Ac 0E1797. After this, by the Act of 1819 the public , had for those transactions which had taken place in,a depre ciated currency,. been, required to-paf -lees currency re stored to the origi na l standard. He wished the House to look at what had been the effect of this—to look at the Otuation in which the owner anti the cultivators of the land had been placed. They Would not have mach • trouble in ascertaining the conseqttel.ees of adopting the soeasures which he had mentioned, for they would see that such distress had followed, and that such havoc of roperty bad taken place as had perhaps newer befor e been witnessed Lut in the rase of a revolution.. Ile, de sired that they should look at the consequences of act ing on this system to the landlords -go the aristocracy and gentry. Their estates, like the price of wheat, had been doubled within the period he bad unendorsed. Rut bat then? All their expeases had been dOutriest—their taxes quadrupled, and their isegagetneuts geomalle made on such a scale that they were not a tittle the richer for the inereased value of their land.— What happened in the end? Why the income of the land -owner had been reduced to half its late amount, his there, debts, and engagements remaining loch as he bad described thein to be. He would ask if •thil must not be the case, that when the price of corn settled to what it was before the war, the.rental of the gentry and landed proprietors must be reduced to half its pre vent amount, or at least to half of what was its amount fore or six years •• en, his taxes auA incumbrance remain ing the same? The rental of the lairdlord calmillied on the one side, and putting on the other all charges, sef tiements, agency. repairs, 81.e..itwould. be forma that the net receipt did nut exce ed. half, the grow amount. What then mast be the situation of the landlord witeu that Mme to be reduced from one to one half of whet it had been under the circumstances which be' had mapposea. If they looked at odic. property-,et West Indian pro peety. they fume' it affected in the saute w e g t . The ope ration of the alteration of the earrency Weil to all Ttioagls for a time certain °lames might ruin by he depress of Of agriculteee. yet 111. the arid, Mies sPoild suffer from.ity •sa the pricei of labour Would .1;e broiight down toil. 4liatkost OA low prioaahe per- Pries t &ek 004 be pa'd..lA,kesles:4l trctimitaric.e , tii . riugdi the lthuietioolat tee takcifilo its serious coa t *tea:ooft (Orris PfndndlOY tht Acts ci 1819, ion tiise . of tocosorl s cruel in .101.4 o peration, been iniiik4afou IWtystotry eps Use Act pt 1/97, which broke b'atth .be tobtie era toe; sou tas4 619, oh ch liroke .faith with else kb Impel trade allied* would 0100011, ItAttetto :b mix 44 ,- linstannesideration. aod if no ere t e * m o th ) , if chi &Oise to ikon, he ebettld Jtialt hie ditY tc dO Mo• 0 . , • Ca, ,11001 _ THE tc.„etailhoogh se musioodi be to.. — 10:0 01} isiolf Rea idnitpo Onsiolei Is the sides Oohs nostre by the shindies ladle entletimly, be wield int ACM nititike lbw thaw fee Been (bit so tile the' Idled* distress might bit imistibed. thq=olBl4' tans of de coostry to have ansouated to tank of that ism 10.090,0101. to have been neon* paitrie the precious entals, the elmsg could, of eon" as then flist oidy fallen rinsaiaing L It w theist to 'lonian what portioned these could fel the ex. Irawffs ol eakillotiOn that the temantry paid 15 p oool er a cent. of this; that they paid ondootth. or 10.000,- thy 40,000,0001., **which the Osage is the currency must be felt. Assuming this. the whole anionot. of tits in creaied taxatiou, which the restoration of the currency could throw on them, wet& * 2,500,0001.; and now he WOUlti ask, email' It hosappned that all the distress at present complained of was • occasioned by such an augniestationof their burden. fle would say, it was impossible that such an effect could *produced hysoth a tans. It was now ionic that they should look to the situation of the landlord. The alteration of the oar reney could only affect the landed interest, so far as it, increased the weight of taxation, end' in this way it', ouldiloot press more upon them than It did on the funtilsolders and the ether classes of the community. Sppposing under this change the landlord kept. op his rents to what they had been during the war, he moist be ▪ gainer by it. Dative would not suppose him to de this. Hr believed an allowance to be made for the al tered value of the currency. But doing so, what dis tress could there arise? If he reduced his renta?..s per ot. and the 7.11. which he now received were equal to the n IMM. formerly paid to him, how could he suffer .by the change? 11:.t the fact was, they coati not geti ibis 751. paid. Now, could it be maintained that the iffocl of the disrupt wu so Joanna es to swallow up the whole profit of the farmer? This was incredible. He would say, the i ed chaise thrown on the leaded iuterest by the operation of trie - Bill of 1819, was butt 'bon 10 per cent. Bat did be meal to say that the] landed interest of this counter bad so other grievances] to complain of? Par from it. He knew they saffortedl from the superabundant redoes sonessive semloon,, and from the extensive importation from Ireland. sod these be thought quite sulficiihi to account for the die tress now pressed upon the lice. But when he of fered these remarks, he ought to add that be was most fully assured that it was impossible for this distress to, cooties,. It mu impossible that those circumstances] which now swallowed op the profit of the farmers, lest- I ing nothing for rent. could continue to act against the lan.leti in fintany length of time. He sow come to offer a fee vrids on the Report. The fortneilteporty •I f divided lop, wo, he sliould sq. taltiog tie` rd part it, contained some admirable propositions. That parties of the report he considered most excellent, and' worthy' to be put by the side of the Bullion Report, and Oben pf the most celebrated of their committees. He described the opinions set forth in that Report as to the effect of opening the ports when the price of what rose to SO shillings, and ex p s ing the contitry to the danger of being deluged by any quantity of corn which the fo reigner might choose to throw into it, sad pointed out, the necessity of correcting this defect in the law. But be•contended that there was a departure from ssspd principles ip what was advanced on the subject of eosin tereailing duties, as on the system there recoinmeaded he did not see th at ' any limit could be put to them. Be -fore we arrived at a very dense state of population it .might be possible for us, by eultiratiag . our best lands, to compete with foreign growers, lad instead of being our hopotting country, to become an exporting nation. • in the progress of society it *cold Ileums impossi- I £ reise,le a cottage): like tnikthe quatell,LOUvol wanted without incurring increased eliargedied, eceoent of the poorness of diesel!. As the p6'ilon became still more dense; these charges roust be still further aug mented ; and, therefore, if anottervailing ditties were to *imposed to the amount of the difference between iheaxpeose of growing core in this country and is those parts from which it might be brought ; jf that principle were to be acted upon there was no saying to what the countervailing duties might arise. With respect to the Report now before the House , he would say, that con vinced of the existence of great agricultural distress, he hail gone into the Committee with a firm determination to give every sort of facility to the adoption of such measures as the Agricultural hientleusen had a right to demand. All be had desired was, that the Report should bald out to the'country, thit when the present distress ' had passed by„;t was intended to return to what lie re garded aa soled principles. But this - it did not do. It only gave them reason to hope, that after a time princi ples might be acted upon somewhat better than tli.oe on which it was considered necessary to act under existing circumstances. The House would be surprised to bear, thit it favoured that system of countervailing duties of , which lie had spoken, and which if followed up, would Seed the country to grow grapes in hot houses to make wise from, instead of importing wine from abroad; and ,priiich, in a word, -robed at fat as it would 10, woold aim us to that point at which all the benefits of foreip commerce would be lost to the country. He bed °nob- servation to make on what had fallen from the Right Hon. 51-ember for Essex. That Hon. Oentleman had compared the agricultural distresses in this country, with the distress at present experienced in the West In dict. If any thing were wanting to prove the correct ness of what he (Mr. Ricardo) had advanced on the state of the currency, be thought it would be supplied by the very case which bad been referred to. How, be would ask, could the distress in the West Indies be traced to the restotation of out currency! Was it not - notorious that the Colonial distress sprung from over production and the want of a market? The corn grower here he cue : starred entitled to protection to the amount of the taxis which lie was compelled to bear. But whatever tempoiiry measure might be resorted to, he was of opi nion (bit it was the duty of that House to neglect nee" pottuuity that might offer for returning to sound prin.. *lea. • ' The Hon. 0. BENNET expressed a decided difference of opinion, is well'from his Honourable Frivol who bad just sat down, es from others who had preceded him% for it was obvious that all the calamities of the country proceeded from excess of taxation—clew bow came it, that while in 1792 we bad only eighteen millions pf tax ation with the same priCes for corn, we bad at present, , with 56 millions of taxation and the same prices, we (witnessed nothing throughout the country bat ohm sold starvation ? wasondeed, quite presumption .end psoekery to pretend that our Wilma' dist:eu was at. tribuiable to any other cense, than our immense too tion - No doubt could however be entertained that our • • taxes shoold be redueed . ; for if that were not the case, die country Would soon be reduced to the same state as they were is India, where the Zeinindars, finding theft properly unproductive, gave up their property, and kit tt phogether to the disposition of the liorensino. So would the Kehl's. the Commoner: Laudlioldeis England, be soon fettered to do, if the present enormous taxatioe wepe exacted, and the whole of our landed pro perty beirensferred to the Goverament. the elergy, and be "Poor's-rate.—(Hear.)-- * But the old proprietors of our hind wen daily compelled to give op thelunees. lies', or a great.part of them, is consequen -wof the pressure of.taxatioo. tie knew himself a casein which y ik et i n n o o t w lo c n o iC m si pe a rled en i i ;au Yin ti ll e r is a . upon 1,2011/; 6 : 4"1. is cob sequence of the enhancement of money produced by the enactment of the Bill proposed by ilielfonourable item. bee for Onord . (of the penile' of which Bill, however, individually, lie did sot mesa to complaie, nit rescued ifir etti one/ Akin from the ors oistms. el timeousalley, directed b y it s p ates. dee Clippieller I dee Rechetteter), with the iwereitsed "Pass liscressory for he edomitimi sad subsistence 'of individuals. Which obliged parents to sen.: their children sod ithes rela tives fir othleation and board to Frances ila 'did sot, however, mean to 'say, that a measure tending to restore die enorney of the country to a sound standard, should be in any degree disturbed ordepreciated. But he very anxiously wished that the taxes for the payment of the Skokie; Fund. which was a an fahrocksted by that grand ioggler, Pitt, alkould be al t irstier repealed for the relief of the truantry, more particularly as the whole systereuas a complete imposture. When such a mess sure took place, the plough should, in hie jwiginent.tse deemed the first cry litor of the couture , and its Chiltla to prof rely attended ts. Feeble part, he should WOW lured that, under refs in eircunkstancear, the Lmollords elsould to the Fundholders and se ek a compromise: but, Wore this was sought, the Landlords, who formed the erre' majority of bulb Houses of Parliament. said, `• we ot.II endeavour to pi you the interest of your claim aped us. by reirenelmieut and economy. and every means in our power." lint if those exertions failed, the Landlords were madded as much as any private vidual , . who happened to b ec ome insolvent, to say to the Fusdhuldera, " we must, (rem the state of oar affairs, press fur composition, in which we are ready top ay pa as much as we can.' ' —("fear. hear!)—He guest t.ay for himself. that lie rueld n u t imagine ally other means by which the c Omni ire of this tuunty could bcremoved, or its distress relieved. The Marquees of LONDONDERRY mad, that lie in tended to make hut a few observations upon this subject, which was so fully to he canvassed hereafter. But he could not help exereasine his surprise, that those Gen tlemen who bad this night stated, that so snowy plans were desirable for the relief of Agriculture especially, had never, in the course of the Sessions, brought any of those plans under the consideration of that Howse, which had been now simile for so many days. This obstervatioo he particularly addressed to the Hon. Mem bers for Essex.aud Coventry. the latter of whom, al though i.e so fully approved and ardently supported the Bill of his lion. Friend (Mr. Peel) for the restoration of Cash Payments, had yet endeavoured to undermine the character, and to discontent the public with the operation of that v. r y salutary measure.' But the speech of the lion. Men:b. rfor Salisbury had excited his pecu liar astonishmenc• For I.y that speech the Hon. Mett ler manifested a dispiksitiou to dispose that House and the country to violate a most sacred duty by 'oriole at nought their obligations t 3 maintain public credit. — There was not, he was sure, any party of integrity or magnitude in the country willing to second such a scheme.— (Hear, hear !)—lt might he agreeable to the spirit of the Hon. Member who eensikred Government for bad seasons,ond fur the expense of wars long since gone by, to charge Governtuent as she cause of the cala mity which at present affected the agricultural interest of the country. But he believed that very few candid men would be fouud to concur in the Hon. Member's view". The Hon. Meether called for the repeal of the taxes which maintained the Sinking Fund, to which call no attention could be paid without great injustice t' the ...Odic creditor, without any benefit to the people.' lu his Lewd L.'s) opinion, indeed, the total repeal of ] the ,`',inking Fund, witc even the repeal of all our other taxer at present. would not effect the relief of the art cnlttiral body fietti i:s existing distress. . A great deal of delusion was, therefore, scatter': f through the cosa try upon this sobjert, as his Honourable Friend; the Member fur Portarlington , could easily 'demonstrste to the Ifouourable thostlemarri but the Honourable Oentleutan who was, lie meld give him leave to say, ra thezAareopsoes 'sightseer's's4466llle. to colour his pictures. would not pr eksMly_tithe advice from any se dimity that should restriet Ms imagination. If. indeed, the Hoe. Gentleman had aronsulted any competent au thority. he would liars found that the country of which be drew such 'melancholy picture, as urged him to re commend a gross breach of plane faith, involving ab solute natiunat bankrootcy,--Tear.llvors)—Was rather in a state of prosperity. with t exception of agricul ture alone; for such nal really oar state in commerce and manufactures, which were going on in a most flou rishing conditiou.s—(44ear, bear.)—He hoped. there fore, that the Urethra's° of that bons* would go to the country with their minds free from the gloomy . pictures sod prognostics of the Hon. (tenth:man, and with a re solution to impress their constituents with the convic tion that our circumstances were improving, and that whatever our circumstances might be, any breach al faith, or approach to national bankruptcy, would Ito.* dinately as injnrions to the people. whom it was mind to relieve, as to those who meat mere immediately sneer: Mr. BENNET in explanation saidhe was far from wishing to defraud the public creditor, bat he considered the nation's faith to have been violated by the Acts of IJ9I and ISI9. • The Marquess of LONDONDERRY bad undersleeid gee Hon. Gentleman to say he would repeal taxes teribe amount of the Sinking Fund, and this not being a& odentylie would go further and pay Mkt creditor so far as he could with due regard to his interest, acting as judge in his own Oise. Mr. ELLICE explained the view he had taken of the measure which lie had been described to support. Mr. RICARDO said he had been spoken of as a great friend to taxes. He was an enemy to them whey that eoold be avoided with justice, as he trasted he bad proved ever sines be had been in that house. Mr. PEEL rose merely fur the purpose of entering Ills protest against the premature discussion of this sub ject, from which no good coal(' possibly arise. He &might, tetwever, it could easily be shown, that accord- Ism to every principle on which inquiry ought to be in µhated, it was impossible that the distress ender whittle the country lalukursol, cotilt, belaying to the particular cans" to which it was ascribed. It was impossible to olenythe existence, or even the extent of the present distress. but if that distress were not confined to this country, but existed equally ib other countries, where the same alleged causes did not exist, it was a fair infer ence that the alteration is the enrreacy was not neces sarily the cause of it. In Flanders and Switzerland, "shoe no alteration had taken place in the currency, aid where there was scarcely any amount of tazatiou t agri cultural distress existed to such an extent that the far mer was unable even to buy the common instruments of till age. How roulkl a partial distress be fairly ascribed to the operation of a cause which was general? When She Bill to which the existing distress was ascribed was first itoroduced, it was prophesied that it would Ike tits terly impossible to raise the same ;mount of taxation ip, so improved currency. This Kephecp bad beeh fel+ led; for notwithstanding the improvement in the COW rency, - the reverrne was increasing. All be asked waif that when this Bill came to he discussed, it might not*, estimated by any partial effect it might have on any pars titular interests. lie would ask the House to takeieseo its consideration she state of the commercial and rooster I flouring popuhktiort ; the amount of the poor rates4o 'the several maunfavuring districts ; the increased coin fort and tranquilh , y that prevailed in those districts; above all, he (soul,' ask them mot to cast ary amide stig agric n e a lt " u ta t l he iu ki t c i r l e;t7bec itc a e u e s u e nt he o c f a e n ti V l rt pressure t on a t n h ' y e Ipartial pre %%%%% to he a fair criterion by which to jadge of its effeets. lie was sorry that he had been led eves thus far into the discussion of this subject. for lie had risen only' that Is , might not appear to acquiesce in the objectiont whirls td been mode to the Bill on the other side of the House, mid to Oahu the suet :shoo of the juidgmea . tof the Hoist anti ibis IRANI arrived rot full dieenasioo which the subject sinekly deserted. Mr. CALCAAFT argued. that the cestapatative meo fort of the manufactriting daises arose partly free theft ex• roption from taxation, as from the depressed stalest agriculture the cora-grower was enable to thugs the consumer with taxes which attached to its production. The idea of advancing a million of money to purchase corn would not relieve the landed interest, os rue of to MO to he purchased —that which was lit to be wares hunsed was already sofSciently high. It was that which was damaged which was most in the way. If the re• commenditinins of this Report were carried Into effect, which lie did not believe they ever would he, or soy part of them, he did not think they would afford the Agricult turd clesses - velief. The Noble 'Margin-vs lirol said nut only that the remission of taxes to the amount of live million mounts svotshi afford no relief, hot he had said 4 the whule fifty-..ix million Ovoids now pail by the eosin: try were swept away, it wiralrl yield no relief to either Landlord ur tenant. This he considered a most outset': dietary proposition. The quantity of pro lure on hand was at present so great that the price could not be raised, What then Was wanted ? Lowerhe of rents—relief 800 tithee—redection of poor's rates—Alteratim of the price of labour—aatl 'wally, a proportionate re livfion of Lao a non. These shirtzs were necessary, but wonhl any man tell him that it was ne.• • •to lower rent, dad yet Ot clare that a redaction of rat a would afford tie la was decidedly of opinion that policy, as well as jars' tier, detuathle.l : • bat the public faith slineld be pee served inviolate ; that to fail in this would be WWI wise, as well as most dishonest; and the constopolori !unit Ire in the end most minim. for the coletry. Mit concurring as he did with what had fallm from the No hie Lord on this oulrject, he begged that he ought not be supposed to agree that a remission of taxation costa afford uo relief. For the liyort, of all the pape rs eve , sent forth from a Cormoitteeche thoogat it the most die appointing. It %%cut to defeat the jinn espectetions of Me landed interest —it • passed over the soloect of tetanus, which had been pressed on the attention of the Cum. mince in almost all the Petitiels; sod, maims' of w¢. log a Report like this, he thought it would lice beta better to have fairly told the sufferers that no whit' could lie granted. Lord LONDONDERRY explained. Mr. H. BURNEY thought the , existino which might more properly be coiled the peeasiery ern. barrassureuts art the counter, had been entirely predict -1 by the measure osowusonly coiled Mr. ?eel's Bill. The Petition was then brought up, read, and ordered to he printed. Mr. BANKES moved for an Account of all Poil.;0111 payable out of the Civil List retieeding 11 , 0 amowll 11)01. per annum, and for the same account of Pen.hrt. charged on the Four aad a Mall per Cent. Duties.— lered. Mr. C. W, NN obtained leave to hrieg in a Bill te regulate the mode of electing Knights 0; the Shire to the County of York. On the motion of Dr. PHILLI3IOIIP., the Morrie:re Act Amendment Bill was read a second ti,l:e, and ordered to be cortauitted en Friday the 19th of April. The Royal Burghs Accounts Bill was cornwittolpro forma, a nd the Report ordered to be takeoin farther consideration on I. rirlay the 26th of April. The Yorkshire Election Polls Bill was read a first and second thue, and ordered to be committed that day fortnight. The Report of the Summary Proceedings Bill was brought up, the Ainemlorents•were read a secoad time and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday, the 22d of April. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the How adjeterned to Wedoesday, the pith et ApriL • "' IU-NGSTfit4f. 416317• 413,-;4 eers • CIVIL. BIDE, Before Mr. Banos G aanatr. TUC KING V. AND ANOTIIKS. This was an indictment against the defendant'. Henry Palmer and Thomas Joshua Parl:., for a con spiracy to obtain by fraud, hills of exchange to the amount of 2,0001., and warrants of attorney to the same amount, from Sir Thomas Swymmer Cheaper, Bart. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Watrole and Mr. A DOLPIIOIII ; the defence of Park by Mr. OM way and the COULON SIRJEANT. and Palmer con ducted. his own defense. The trial of this case lasted the whole of Tester day, and finished this day at three o'clock. The leading circumstances proved in evidence were the same as those detailed some time since in our Re ports from. Union-hall. Oo his cross-examination, Sir Thomas S. Champ ais admitted, that for the last thirty years he bad been greatly embarrassed, and had endeavoured to raise motley by the usual means of discounting bills at most esormous sacrifices, buying timber, relicts, silks, Eze., and reselling the property at great loss. lie said, that during this time he had been the buffs of all the swindling money-lenders in men, upwards of forty of whom he bail ia a list as scoundiels uha had been pecking at him, and etoleavaurint to obtain Lis securities tending to his tither ruin. the admitted that during *his period he read been raising moory by these means to the amount of Otloaarol. His evidence was corroborated by several witoetota whose names he had mentioned as b, ing ['reseal It, or connected with the trausac:ioa which he described. The defendant, Palmer, a.l.l.esssd the Jury os bie own kart, sad Mr. Douse v. on behalf of Park. The topics addressed were, that there was nothing like a conspiracy intim case, inasmuch as the prosecotor was a man hackneyed in the wa y s of the w orld, wh: co: not complain of being deceived; Ibat " re " bad been committed upou biro, for that his hills were complete waste paper ; that he and hit servant Big gins were themselves conspirators in drawing and ac cepting bills to deceive the wu.ll; and, in shirt, that 'the defendants were the sufferers, glut bad been di. hided out of their money by the detigoiog ingenuity of the prosecutor. Mr. Baron tla MIAMI warned up the case with strht impartiality, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found both the defendants On Strulay, the 3lst ult.. of npoplesy. Mr. William/ I . e ' ton, oaternostr-rms. yongest son of the late fler.ldo• Button. who also e died by a u siluilsc visitation of God in AV gust last. ! On he 2 instant, suddenly, while rctuine on Imrschv k to Ms t house d at flomerton. Mr. J. Ha • raof Tower-strerl. deeply regretted by his numerous fsmily awl friends. On Tuesday. the 241 last.. as New Cross, John Baty Ciro lutin, Esq., la his 77th year. On the Slat ult., at his house, Newinzton-plsee, Eessing• ton, in his 74ils year. Mr. John Iladdoltk, of tlte Iste sin g ingdsouse of Whitehead, Howard and Haddock. Caletto . street. Ilut14" &Med, Printed , ant Pitniibted at the Oct ° -' I AI STATIWIAII" and " Tug ConerrrrTlo/1" (0dal PdpeT), No. M ran . Std, by a WAI:DCI.I., LL B " tt [ *boa all Conownuicatious, Wert, tee. am I. be addressed. - '~. i ~- . • , , ' I - 4 'V . 7 ' A • • .4. • 4-, , --. • ~.'; ,~