The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-16 00:00:00

t ... ~~: :~ ~. as zeimeMMllmiSisatiol= execution against any of the persecuted who could 'now ettly g a d a secure nom in reentry—he somentAlrose unfortunate individuals who weer: persecuted by the King of Frotibe, his being st second time placed on the Tinto* Fancy by the Allied troops. Bet it was the object of the Noble Lord to prevent those unfortunate in dividuals from availing themselves of that protection in this country, which was due to all individuals who conducted themselves peaceably in it, thee rendering the Government of this country the accomplice of measures which history would describe as most ty. rannicsl and gnirst. Whew the valour of tree troops a second time placed the fugitive en • the Throne of France, it was the wish of all that that Ruler should mot, by the esercise of arbitrary power, endanger the tranquillity of Europe. Nevertheless, a fortnight after the Restoration, an Edict came out against a ember of individoile, who were thus made the victims of a most cruel proscription. By that Edict,' the Xing not only violated the premise which he tad 'solemnly given in the face of Europe, but he trampled by it the provisions of the Charter under foot. The French Government unable, after all their attempts, to substantiate any thing against those individuals, which by the laws of their country would subject them to punishment, pretended that the publicity of a trial would endanger the public tranquillity ; and they demanded from the Parliament of Fray'so a measure of proscription against them, without allowing them to be baud in their defence. Even those men who were about to revive the Feudal Institutions, which happily for Prance weredestroy. ed with the Revolution, sad who looked on any at tempt to oppose the will of their Sovereign u little better than sedition ; even these Ultra-Royalists viewed this proscription with horror; and the Go. vernment obtained the power wished for, on a pro. mise of bassishing those only who were most &aggr ess. The Government obtained that power, bet hew did it use it ? All the individuals bad been banish. ed, end in three years not one had been allowed to return. That all of them deserved this severity be denied—many of them were in no other respect, guilty than in having fought ler their country in the !held of battle; and taken a part in the affairs of France during the last 15 years: and ender the exist• ing system of the Continent, which the Noble Lord wished to. extend to this country, they found all hospitality cut off from them. Against these unfor. tonate men all Europe were leagued ;—if one of them happened to be living io any corner of Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Banks of the Rhine, or in any of the small States of Germany, he was seised and handed over with every barbarity to the place allotted him ;—if one word of complains escaped him, he was answered by the Treaty of Paris and the Holy Alliance, and he wu banded over to the town allotted to him in Austria au Prussia, to be watched by spies. Such being the system of Continental Police, was it hosearable and advantageous to England to contribute to support it He implored the House to pause before they armed Government with ,this power, which could eel, be exercised against those who had incurred the um. geence of foreign Powers. He knew not whether the condition of the Freucli Governmeet woaldjestify one or the artier supposition • bet this IN might with. out hazard .assert, that if We majority of the People of France, or any considerable put of them, were friends of the Government now established there, it was ridiculous to suppose that a small number of milks, could endanger it. But if the People of that Country univergilly thought that their Governmeet was impeded on them by foreign areas,—if they bo. held it as a monument erected by the pride of their victorious sonnies on thole degradation—if, in short, that Gueransent wee despised sad detested, wu it it to protect it by such a law as this ? Was it not time to cease this ezpensive straggle, in which we bad already sacrificed 500 millions, and for which they were then celled on to sacrifice their rights, their Constitution, and their honour ? Under a despotic Government the Monarch alone answered for the demerits and dishonour of its acts, but in this Coun try the People deservedly here their share of the disgrace, and, ns their Representatives, they were bound to reject any measure which was derogatory to the character of the nation. As such a measure, he called on them to reject this, and he should move as an Amendment, That the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. PROTHEROE supported the Bill, on the ground that it was necessary to prevent the invidious machinations of foreigners, and because there bad not been any well-founded complaints against the exer cise of it. After a pum a a division being called for, Mr. LYTT.E.'LTON said, he was rather surprised at the indifference with which such a question was viewed by the House of Commons, nor should be deem so highly of his own powers as to 'oppose he could force it upon them ; but be could state an in. stance of the effects of this measere upon its onlosppy victims, respecting which, if he had not other in , formation to communicate than what had been de• rived from the individual himself, it was the fault of the Noble Lord, who refused any information on the 'object. The case was that of a Frenchman named Befort, who had invested a large sum of me ney in this country, and who was a person, as Ith I*.• lieved, of unimpeachable character. He was, in 1813, ordered out of the country, on three or four days' notice, without time to arrange his pecuniary affairs, which involved property, ire tie represented, to the amount of 30 or 40,0001. When, in 1814, he retained, on the faith of the peace, to make some arrangements respecting his property, be was dis patched out of the country in twenty-four boors, notwithstanding his earnest retnOnstrantes to the proper authority, that it was very Important to him to be permitted to stay a short time ter settle his affairs. It wet well known that there Irsa • shop in St. James's-street for the vele el the asall- 1 chic for the gout, called lEau Medidrtets. For the sale of this medicine M. Befort was aka frig, which gave a probability to his account of the extent of Iris dealings. Now unless it could be averted that there 'was a serious danger to the " high and palmy state" of England from the 'ender of gont.water, it wasdlf.i kelt to find an excuse for this barshdess. M. Befort stated, that on the 6th of Ang. 1819, be received vs order to leave the country on the 10th. He wrist to Portsmouth to embark, accompluied PYA.4o‘m* nhom he should 'not nanie ; all Isis luggage was there ei ;() s ia 4~ ~ T _.~..... TWF , to lean habitat is the custody of the Collect , — tustoms, Captain Woodruff., and the person Shoat he bad before alleded to. A deputatieit of five persons were sent from London, after kli departure, to search this musical instrueseot; in presence of the Collector of Customs and the penes, alluded to, and they towed nothing in it to preselot its being esporled, end Copt. Woodruffe wrote to Mr Retort that be should speedily receive it. The article In question was, however, brought teillis don, sod then examinek and theo a correspondesee was foood which perhaps weeld astonish thr Hesse —a correspondeace between the Irish Gaieties, the Pope, and a Monk of the Order of Ea Trappe.— Whes it was considered that the Noble Lord to whom this correspondence was to be submitted, was one who peculiarly dreaded any danger from that quarter, there was too mach 'Pound() believe that it was a forgery. Bat if there really was a treasonable correspondence, of which the proofs were in writing, the person, whether native or fo reigner, residing here, might be made to answer it in a Court of Justice, giving him an opportunity DI being heard in his owe defence. M. &fort's.. sorted, that the person whom he had named (hut whose Dyne be (Mr. L.) did nut feel Monet( estitted to repeat) had an interest in a forgery of that kind, to osable him to upplepriate some hundreds of pounds which was in this musical instrame..t. A linKular 'fact connected with this case was, that M &fort stated that holed been the second time 40-nt our of the country in 1814. The Return to the Noose stated, that there was no person soot out in 1814. It was improbable that M. Bef..rt would make an assertion, if untrue, which could 10 readily be dis proved—yet this assertion would destroy the value et all the Returns of Aliens transported which had bees laid before the House. He would put it to the otegoanimity of the House, whether they would go on with such a system, and, instead of opening an asy lust for foreigners, submit them to the merest, simplest despotism ? Mr. H. CLIVE supported the Bill. He could cot account for the omission in the Return nee. dotted by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Lyttelton). A disision was again called for, and the Gallery was about to be cleared, when Lord FOLKESTONE said, that he could not but express his astonishment that no arguments could be advanced by Ministers, or by the Law Officers el the Crown, for a measure in contrary to the custom of oar ancestors, and so hostile to the boast of Fag. liehmen.—( Hear, hear!)—Ue should be, indeed, sowerthy of his descent, and of his fortune, if, do• wended as he was of parents who had taken refuge iw this coeetry, its order to exercise their faith with im punity, and nursed ander the proteltlin of English laws, be did aot protest against the door of bospi• talky being now-clued open persons in the situation of his ancestors. The Bill was equally hostile to the spirit of the Constitution, and to the policy of our ancestors. The great bulwark of liberty, the, trial by Law, was seperseded, and midi Mkoitt ielots by measans andA door was opened to all therielithlnutqwr of secret spies and laforusers.—(Hear !!)—After allot they had beard at the end of the last Session and at the Winnebago( this Solid., of those respectable, and, u it now appeared, much-esteemed characters, they could not hews a doubt as to the mode in which the Act would be carried into effect. The case of M. Bohn strikingly showed how this measure opened a door to all secret information and private malice,. while it pat the foreigners who were the objects of their machisations beyond the possibility of defend. log themselves. An Hon. Member bad said, in this face of Ilk that there had been no abase. Mose did be know that there was no abuse? Each of the three oust in the Return might be a case of great abuse. In many other cases, measures might bare been applied as the means of coercion with so much success as to prevent the necessity of making a re turn. The Noble Lord had used a round-about argu ment to show that the measure was not intended for other countries, but for internal tranquillity. Fo reigners would, in this country, excite war against France, France would embroil Europe, and we must take part in the general war. Bat, if this was true, why should not the Act be perpetual? or why should not a law be passed, declaring it high treason to at tempt to excite war against France? Another argu ment bad been used, the more dangerous as it was very plausible, that it was better to have recourse to prevention than to punishment. This was true ia mo rals and in politics, so far as prevention meant the taking a way of temptation, as in the case of forgery last night seder discassion.—[Some impatience mar here ataehresen Imam Ministerial side of tke House.] He .was awry that Gentlemen felt so unwilling to attend to this abject. It was certainly of great importance. The pigments he used were perhaps not good, or perhaps, if good, not well put. As Gentlemen on. the ether side showed great dispiessere,whea they'. were sot attended to, they ought to exercienetome.' thing like reciprocity.—(Hear, hear!) -,..,b,1 , 1 Mr. C. GRANT could not regard the measesens an infringesest on the Constitution, nor as for at this moment. He did not think oar system of policy was marked by ally particular sal dilection for fereigners, except as merchants... Statutes alluded to afforded them protection as. chants. With respect to the prerogative of the, venlig°, it aerial* was not the policy of the coll..), siltation to preclude him from prohibiting the iglu-4 course of foreigners, should the safety of the *ate require the esercise of such prohibition. He 44 not .wish this ceentry to be the ruideece of Trejlon,and Jacobins. It had been said that this Bill would is terfore with - hespitality••••oo sucktbiag. It would • t operatoisibet way ; tier-+e (enigma who Easily Bow (rem religiose gurisecotiou .lOoottl Still fled in asylum in Ellialliad. But if we woos to look to iti‘Zary doe a period when the persecased found refer) in this .coontry, the Oast 25 years furnished most, ample proof of the beaspitalities of, this' coeetry ; and at the ' present moment not less than 2%000 foreigners welly etioying the prowaffion which &gland efforde4l ,• The Measurable Mr. DOUGLAS obserwetk. ffies the question before the House, was cot, as the speakOr had argued, with respect to the chosecice , ii foreiguers who might choose to residels ibis costa was any danger iti admitting !her the proposed prohibition consistent with the Constitution • Britain. The principle upon its recommended by the Noble Affairs, and the arguments by aieh it was supported, could not, as he felt, be con. tlisliplisted without alarm, by any ono solieitoos for &adenosine@ of our constitutional rights or national repeitalien.• These principles and arguments were nee, he perceivod, recognized in the preamble to the 'Bill. Tbe mahafactorer of preambles for the Cabinet ?had not, it was remarkable, recited any of the reason. whith the Noble Lord thought proper to ergo for 'ithat introduction of this extraordinary measure.— [Thes it appeared the Noble Lord and his Colleagues were more anxious for their own vitidication at pre. sent than for that of the House with posterity ; for they had not, in the preamble, recorded a single rea. see for the cootinuanee of this law. Was the noose aware of the inordinate power with which the Bill proposed to invest the Secretary of State? It pur ported to authorise that Minister to send any Alien tiomiciliated in this country to soy other country, not excepting even that of an enemy, without any inti- 'ation to such Alien as to the nature of the accusa tion against him—without confronting him with his accuser, or affording him any opportunity for espia natinn. The Bill did, to be sore, as the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) stated, afford such Meagan op. port unity for appeal. But, what was the natant of this appeal ? Why, it was seek as to add maim" , and injustice : for, if an aggrieved Alien complained, he had, forsooth, the opportunity of appealing against the conduct of Lord Sidmouth to the judgment of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), and his Colleagues in office. if it were meant to guard against Jacobites, we had the Government of France, as well as all the Govern. merits In Escape, in corobiriation with our own, in opposition to any danger from thir quarter ; there, fore, what necessity for this law ? But if it Were proposed to guard against Bonapartist, for the' sito of the French Government, that must be an idle pretence, as that Government itself was mainly ad. ministered by Bonapartist.. It was • notoriJos, indeed, that Bnonspaltists were at the heed of the Freach•King's Councils. But the Noble Lord (Cue. tlereagh) affected to feel considerable alarm from some French emigrants who were at.present in the Nether lands. ' This, however, must be quite a chimera. For wh..t must be • the stability of the systeei which thP Nnbie Lord and his diplomatic Colleagues bad arro.need upon the Continent, if it could be Aitken or alarmed by such poor wretches as were now io the Netherlands ? Here the Hon. Gentleman entered into an examination of the policy of the British Go. vernment in pressing the appointment of a Monarchy in the Netherlands, and sebjectiog the Deck to a system of Government so alien to their habits and principles. The Noble Loyd (Castlereagh) had, bow. ever, appeared tweet foe a considerable time rather !Hider the inflqenee of foreign Governments sod than of the constitutional Government and et! tabli , thed principles of Great Britain. The Noble fjord had become so mach of an Ambassador, In which alone he had obtained any character, that be seemed absolutely unfit for the office of a British Statesman. Beth the association of foreign Kings and Amtiss tide.% It might- be foams difficult to inaintein•ihe sturdy ledependence end manly freedom of the Bri tish character. fie did not know that the Noble L.,rd was ever very tenacious of that character; but from the present measure, and other circumstances, he feared that very dangerous concessions had been made to' the . Society to which he had Minded; and that, when these concessions were 'malted, the Con. tineoltal S.lvreeigns were not told, as they should have been, that these laws were not our laws, and that the People of England were resolutely tenacious of liberty. He would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whe. ther it was not for the interest of Enelind to encou rage foreigners? and whether that Right Hon. Gen. vermin had not found them materially useful for some of the most important operations of Government ? Would any *tional man, then, discourage foreigners from coming here, or send enterprising speculators to settle •in other, perhaps in hostile, countries.— [Hear, hear:] —He would not confide in Lord Sid. mouth, nor any Minister, whatever the Constitutiee forbad him to do so.—The Hon. Member set does amidst loud and continued cheers. A division being called for, the numbers were— Far the mmina 97 Agalost it __ - - 35 Alajoi ity - —62 On our re-admission to the gallery, we found Mr. BENNETT putting a question to Lord CASTLEREAGH, for the purpose of knowing in what stage Ministers meant in discuss the Bill? Mr. BA'til MIST rose to order, and contended, that a Member hid no right, by petting a patios, to revive a conversation •on a subject after the rep., Jes ; proceediog on the particular stage had closed. Mr. BENNETT.—" The question is, ' that this, , Bill be committed on y uesday nest;' there is, there lure, a subject before tbe Mese on which I have a 'right to speak, and of this the Right Hon. Gentle man ought to have beers aware, if his ear was as quick to bear the question as his tongue wes to call we to order. I have a right to proceed, if I please, in the shape of interrogatory; and I now ask; if at all, and ',heft, It is the intention of Ministers to debate this gondol' ? Not one syllable has been yet said on this Importing .object by any one of hit Majesty's Ministers, or any of thtitt alopeutlants and expectants, or the Law Officisra,,. o )o hi . ave not heard one word in justification of Alm greill!e;!ind I ttk the Noble Lord when Miniaters mean toliroik silence on the subject ? Au bb entered into int engagement with the Kings of Vl* Continent, or Me Rely Alliance, to say nothing on a (osition which is the spirit of the Constitatiou of the land„,and ,tha personal liberty of the subjects of the Conticenhi whose Sovereigns had associatpd, leaped, armed, nod combined to carry into effect measures here which they edupted in their own conelito? I will nbt, entatiltritot. eta merits of question, odd She wo *her •of speeches which have bees already .trOlussWerml. ,411 I.s4ptli ask is, when their Mightieita.m. the ,ginister, arposite 7 tLaugluer}rt will deign to say - Lott!• .seat they have to 'oppose tat cogent ereatdeots't A l a been iiiiiihrrdagnlnit eh, .Bist Po—(H eer , h e i r t5',. , r; ,r ea re t•• ail.. • LardsOASTLEltireared the riosoareblqi Member that the silence proceeciet:-. 1 tool the disia-1 clinatien on the other side to hear. no objection to their opinions, and ci promise that they would receive an wltild come forth. Mr. LYTTELTON asked some spewing M. &fort, who was sent oul •as before alluded to. • • Mr. BATHURST was net prepared swer, but wield make enquiries. The ordered to be committed for Tuesday, The Report of late farther Consideration, and the , witted. , The &pert was brought up, reeding '6 ted for *mill next. CHANC:O4Oft of die . brought ie Ike Irhh Assessed Taxes reed • first rim, sad ordered-ter- b time on Monday nest. Mr. PEEL deetbsedptopetert* sion with the Irish Prisons Fees Bil tkeeibms, that - Sir JOHN NEWPOPlebqoistscelt ty of deferring f urtber proceedil from experience, tha t titsvpriestati.. this description, in Itelsodi r elthnegh present, would stretch any provision for interests which Parliament, in the want • ' lion, might adopt. . The motion was then carried. The other Orders of the Day were of, and the kloase adijoorsied to Monday THE INSURRECTION 11XTRAct OF A imuz noir 'nut imacu 19. " A shocking circumstance ncrerred, east coast of . this coloey a few days dealers of which, as far as they. ' are these Several of Mr. Van havingabsconded from his 'slit , ind the Bush, Mr. Torre, brothel Vah and Wu engineer workiL veto/fleeted 'their • services to go hack with, thirteen of the frostiest of .the. to enfleavuor to secure some of the r' travelled a abort way together into they met a party, with whom they took nine Prisoners. They dispatched own negroes to carry these *IAA home and with the remainder of tbeit pertly. consisted now of six, they determined imprudently) to penetrate deeper i and, a short time afterwards, they mote, among whom were some of own people. With these the whites and advised them to return home, he pardoned. In this they appeared quiesce, and were beginnin g to shape their ' homeward, when one of the runaway:- stopped, and said to Mr. Torre, Massa, a way, go and me sail show yes plenty here.' They agreed to go. This - erne ' and in a short time ceedected these t of a camp, composed, it is said, of negroes. Their unlucky fate was no Mr. Torre seeing a blot* Man dressed and epoislets,' immediately aimed -am! ', tit lifts but +bit wee& sitddenty stoop* atattlimaket him, bit killed another who stood was wounded immediately by a shot camp negroes, when, to complete hie man in red ran up, and, with one sir' nearly severed his head from his body tieing the fate of his compinlon, endeavor fact an escape, but did not seemed, for back instantly sod mord/reit piece- , osuirtered and otherwise shamefully port 'says, that a large fire was then butchery clo . sed with a song, and dal murdered - remains of these two en! mien. An expedition of the East Coast ruing to proceed into shatossit, oad are entertained of success k ,whalt aosnothinik will, no desist, be done." „ , EiTtletcT OF ANOMIE'? ifirtltlt, tol " Since the murder of the two wi of March, another murder has takk whites in one .of the cony boats, sailors. The heads of the two former were stock upon poles, and placed of the estate they belonged to, as a Mal " On the &let of March no meir adopted, or espedition soot oat, ae oeedinp of the bash negroes or rune , so few troops here, that the Militia constantly on guard. We hale no seem fur oar property ; it would require to give protection to these colonies. charm which held the negroes in subjection pletely broken asunder. The Depots doubt their own superiority." LAW - 171 - VE - rgLLIGENI COURT OF K 1 NG'6 RENCIIip Nair lIIITCHEK V. SiCi6ABooo' Tb• Viva is a journeyman brick! Defendant the owner of a recently Spa-fields, adjoining two other hoes a person of the name of Powell. 'rho brought to recover damages for an injory of received from a springegan, while the roof of the house of the Defendant. acts of the esse were these :—The . Plaintiff Ired by his 'employer to point some dipinß open one of tbe homes belonging to Pontiff having o olong l e & der he we, ender the necessity of going through , trap-door on the roof, and in order to obtain some mortar, be passed along the gutter of the parapet of goo pefendant'shour:.: ist this gutter a spring-gun itas set,. upon the wire of which the . Pleintiff trod, r ind thi contenti lodged in his sight Mod, and in both his legs. After headset the etidenett, Mir. Jetties Asset' re fshassended that the matter 'should be amicably mt. And; and Mr. SCAOLETT, On the part of the Defendant, pro. timed that a JurOr'shou4l be withdrawn, and that the Plaintiff should receive M. as a Compensation, each party paying his town coat. Mr; Jastico Annoy thought the provisal fair, and 1 4 "pi accepted. The case of COSTER V. MANSERoccupied the Cow _ . , . . ' -STATESMAN'. • • . . • • Nail, seerellei, and I . , was hioseif toe.ehlt ,tb- try ; bet whether there t this timid dukaap .` AA( stripped mid' aferehed: There that residence—or whet) deals was a pf awt *Wog his goods, which' hattbstets of seek residence was coil alter searciiedVdMfir*llei tiring% bet for which he god 00 and character a G reit E yes of: a permit ofimportatioe, sad was therefore, ebligibk !giblet* Ibis sioasare wa! bjece to lean behind is the custody of the Collector of ' , Atieretary for Foreign A e hid Customs, Captain Woodruff., nod the person Which it was supported. o ... • , . . . , .. •.. , . 4 4 • . ••,; % .0 . 4 , - - . ' • 1 • ..,; • ,r. Now he het • .. . cwild vkitoie to ;.• n answer, if they . , -- • • IYJ explanation ree rut of the couutry , t• led to give an in. ~ ~ • 'he Bill - was then . ; ',' y. La Bill vas taken Bill was recant. c ip, and • the third Il ExcnriabEtt I Kilt, whk.. was . I . t be :nod e second c helot this See. till. He moved, • (, gap than. mostke, ail is the prowl.. thus, as be knew • torching feet of . • ugh sell paid at •. ring for tb. ir own ' want of informs. 7 --lae et b 4. 4 ex • .ere then iiispassil . Pudgy nest. . . . , • DiCit4lO4RA . ) , . . , t cot.pitr, hsruil t redikileha. se the lays egreolhe par. I bets .tran.pMed t it Bairns' noooes ire, the lieehrie fr . -in:lan lit Mr. i ciiig oh theseiittai lick, well' armed; e. estates' negrugs, runaways, 'Peg' the wooiTi, 'whets had 'WO, and 'hed stiefti of tbeli 1 . amiss to Wilhite; I. Patty. ;thick may i ird (thnoilki VI into the ((last • . . fell' in with eft* t air. Van Ilitilint a tee reammetrasedi ti i a ' p al ir d earO tbil . F lo s"da hei , thaw their coinq 'newsy. suddenly 1 Massi4 come et plenty stick negro hign led the ways tp i the re., metre ; .f spwsrds 01'. 80 now sooq.deatind: eared In 'a 'red coat - I, wit- Seed Etilib. , t il l . isti4hsettet - , 1 . I kr.tim. "Sow* 1 (ruin one 41; 4 J" 1 , is destructio4, ! ' Croke nllO6lll/ 4 I • tly. The entlfnelit nderroored *weft , h)r he was broogbt e.mesi.. tag. wig ' mutilated, Rem 1 n (node, and the t 1 danCe round thti nfortniitit . ping i, t! ast Militia is prig il latmeholt WPM '. • 4 0 , 0 44 11 11#1 4.1 4“ I. V 3• ac 4 , ..! rt. 1 046 1 •• , rfiTFD APRIL Z. 1 'bites on the 16th sken place of two its, by. the negro . - ter lien murdered • at 'the back dams . ,1" riellanCe. w I t eisureit bad been A I arrest the .pro,. , 1 tways. We, bars is is obliged to be lecurity whatever ' about 1,000 Men, ~ I much fear tha 'objection is coal. , 000 will 00 longer VCE. 1 Ia Mar IL won.. . cklaver., and lb} y built house in ' uses belonging to rs The yeti°, wits i injery the Plain- i hit* pie isg over r dant. The facts k i intiff wet desired t7•l' 3 I° l of un od, 1 1 re- et. e. ad irt I i 1 PP ,