The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

.~-~ ..., IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COAINIONS, Jay. 24. The. Sheriffs of London appeared at the Bar, and presented a Petition for lessee to bring in a Bill to enable the Lord MAyor, fie. to erect a new_prison, &c. on the vacant Tasty. o_gf round on Moortields. The P etition State.t that there were in NPWgeite at this timonent, a number both of felons and debtors, for whom it was desirible to provide separate accommodations. Sir J. Sid A W supported the Petition, when Mr. PEICCEVA I. signified the consent and recommendation of the Crown to the inemmre which partook of a grant both of laid and of money. The erown had grakted to the City of London a piece of land, on condition of not building opus' it ; hut it was agreed that permis:ion should now be given to build upon this ground, agreeahly to a plan by which the public coureniroce and health would not be compromised or endan , greed. The Petition win referred to a Committee to enquire and to re eort. The Sheri® hiso presented a Petition from the I nrd Mayor, Aldermen, &c. of LOJWiall praying for leave to bring ilia Bill to do away . the right of asnaton, and for forming a new road in St. George s-field,. Referred to a Committee to enquire. and to report. Mr. IV H A RTON presented a Petition from a person of the name of Canfield, whose father was the inventor of a new mode of forming rolls and wires of iroo by means of machinery, u ith out working it, on the behalf of liinnielf and nine other child ren, praying for relief and remuneration. Grdered to lie on the , ta..lc. —..-. . . EXCHEQUER BILLS' BILLS. Mr. VIM A frl'ON brought in a Bill for the raising of one 'oil bon Gse hundred thousand pounds, by way of Exchequer Bills. fur die bt*rt ice of the year ISlV.—Reed a lust time, and ordered to he d ead a second thne tCHDINTOW. Also a Bill for,otisiog 100 tiiiiiiiilll by way of Exchequer Bills, for tie service of the 'war Nl2. Read a firstLiose, and ordered to lie second time to-tourvow, Mr. TOR Elf) begged to be inf . o i r eir med priai Me ae -1116 4... why ere could be at dos time of the leit tillit: 1111 KM Itrda V ? Mr PERCEV AL said, it was desirable that - Money Bills should pass as speedily as possible and that no . loss of time •ssould take place in forwarding themi through their singes. Ir. WHIT BREA 0 said, though it niigin be desirable that those Motry Bills, should be expedited,* this 'did not apply to other Bills; of which hr observed notice had Ir in given fur Sa- I 1' 1 " 13 .Y. Ile hoped. therefore, that all other businrs.., except the ' Money Bins, would he allowed to lie over. and that one thing ' lit ould nut he suffered to creep in after another. Mr. PERLA:VAL said, he had net the le ust idea of any such thing. A MERICA. _ _ Mr. WHITBREAD Obseried, that by what he saw in the Papers to-day, the crisis between this country and America was approaching. He was one of those who thought that the calamity of a rupture with that country might still be averted. lie, there fore, now asked the Right Hon. Gentleman oppo site, if he was willing to lay before the House the Correspondence between Mr.. Munroe aud Mr. Fos ter, as far us it had gone ? Mr. PERCEVAL said, till the negotiation was • brought to a conclusimi, he should feel it to be his duty, as far as in him lay, to oppose the production of any part of the correspondence. Mr. WHITBREAD then gave notice, that he should take an early opportunity of moving for the production of the correspondence on this subject. HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD. On the question that the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Household Bill be read, Mr. G LES said, that after what passed yesterday on the subject of this Bill, it was not his intention now to oppose the second reading of it. He only begged to usk of the Right Honourable Gentleman (1 1 Kceval), whether it was his irttoitiolt to suggest any additional allonatices to any other I,:auches of the Royal Family, and if so, out of what lied it s% as to he proposed that such allowances siiould be paid ? Ile hoped, also, the House would be in formed nhat was the amount of the limits of the Admiralty unapplied ? Mr. Pt: ICEVAL said it was not improbable that some farther allowance for other branches of the Royal Family might he proposed ; but he had, at prest"tt, no instructions on the subject. Mr. W HTBR D thought it would be des; ;able that the Right Honourable Gentleman should say what would he his advice on this subject. The Right Honourable Gentleman had said, that the thing was not improbable, but that he had no in strnctions. On the subject of the 10(1.0001. a year, as the estimated expence of the attendance 'on his Alajesty's person, the Right Honourable Gentleman seemed to have had a sort of intuitive notion. Was it net fair, therefore, to ask, if he had any intuitive idea of a grant of the kind alluded to ? Mr. PERCEVAL said; this was a subject not con• berletl with the Bill now before the House. Mr. WHITBREAD contended, that this was no answer to the question. Would the Right Honour able Gentl,.atan allow him to remind him, that the Civil List was to be handed over to the Prince Regent midi a deficiency of 50,0001. compared with its amount when possessed by his Majesty, on the ground that he had not so large a family, so that the Prince Regent was surely concerned in that expen diture? Mr. TIERNEY alluded to a sum of 20,0001. a year granted to -her Majesty in 1804 , on account of the Princesses. Mr. PI RCEVAL saki, if the Princesses were to continue permanently with the Queen, the arrange ment must, of course, be differents from what. it would be if they were not to do so. Whether it was right that they should continue permanently with her Mnje•ty, or not, mould be the subject of after con sideration. hlr. WHITBREAD contended, that this rendered it more important that the House should know the fact before they provided for the event. They were new Jo make a provision, with a view to the conti titmice of the Princesses with the Queen; and were torn, probably, to be told that they were not to continue with ker. It was proper &at they should now be told whether the Priucesseiviere or were not to continue with the Queen. If they were to conti nue, then the grant ought to he ;_if they were not to continue, then the grant ought not to be made. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. ORDF.Rs IN COUNCIL.. Mr: BROUGHAM gave notice, that he should, after the relnolral of the Restrictions from the Prince Revea l move, that an humble Address be presented to his Loyal ,Ilighness, to rescind the Orders in Council, and the system of licensing. • 60101ITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House, resolved itself into a Committee, when 1,2.501 were voted to Captain Maltby, for his in vention to preserve the lives of seamen ; 4,3991. were voted towards defraying the expences incurred about Henry the Vll.'s Chapel. On the question, that 10,0001. be voted for the erection of a bridge across the Eden, in Cumberland, Sir JOHN' NEWPORT rose to object to the grant. The people of Cumberland had no higher claim to the public money than any other county. I___ 11•=CIE r. I • 1 • I S . • I • ' • • • • • • • • • 4 1 I ' - . .. ~-. < +.; THE rrArrrs4mAN. Mr. WHARTON and Sir JAMES GRAHAM _ observed, that strong representations had been Inuits 1 on this subject to the Committee by the Scotch, , and We have frequently, had ne opportunity of pub ; particularly by the Irish Members; and the purpose fishing extracts from Mr. MILES 'S admirable letter, of the intended bridge, said Sir James Graham, was ' addressed to his Royal Highness thePuttece REGENT to facilitate the eotrance of the Irish Members lets 1 l its the year 1808, and we have had the satisfaction of the British Parltitenent.—[4 laugh.]. , learning from various quarters, that these extracts A conversation have met with a of considerable length then took , favourable reception, and were place between ' Mr. Giles, Mr. Wharton, Sir John ew port, and Mr. H. Sumner; in the coarse of i h i ghly gratifying to our numerous Readers. The 1 N I which, the Right Hoe. Baronet expressed his con- , subjoined extract, we are the more induced to give victim% that the names of the Irish Member% were I publicity to, that, though it came from the able pen merely used to cloak this Cumberland job ; while of Mr. Mein upwards of two years ago, it seems as I Mr. Wharton asserted positively, that Members if it were written at the present moment, by way of I from all parts of Ireland had strongly recommended , good counsel to his Royal Highness, on the eve of : the bridge in question. Mr. wurnittExcl, in reply to what had fallen his assuming the reins of Government unshackled by / from Sir James Graham, observed, that it was cu- , restrictions. It forms a Postscript to his very elo rious that the bridge, which had been allowed to bet quent and impressive letter, and will, we trust, have wide enough for the passage of the Scotch Members, I the effect which its intelligent author intended it . and Scotch cattle, should be too narrow to admit the • should have upon Britain's future Sovereign. After passage of the Irish Members. These latter gentlemen were indeed of great weight, but he had not been referring to certain documents which form an Appen . aware that their breadth was such as to require a dix to the letter, the Postscript states — bridge of ampler dimensions than the Scotch.—[A " They contain a volume of evidence, establishing 1 laugh.]—At any rate, he could not conceive wll y at once the guilt and incapacity of those who advised the county of Cumberland should be particktlarly fa- o ur R ur novel rather to war, for objects foreign to the i voured ; and , the pretest principle, if extended, interests of his to persevere in the war would pet In she hands of Government the eilidon of all the bililOw_ Ijirithe kingdom. deer the accompi theare objects had become Sir H. MO.'bt)l4 'MY spoke a few words.. evidently impracticable.'—Xwekened from delusion ) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQI.I2 de- the people seem to be fully aware of the artifices em fended the Clause, on the ground that the county, I eloved to abuse their credulity, and of the laboured though compellable by law to make their brldge: • • efforts of venal writers hired to mislead and deceive passable, could not be compelled to erect a bridge of the extent required. I the public mind. The country is • no longer insensi- A conversation then took place between Sir J.. bleble to the danger with which it is menaced ; but it is Newport, Mr. Wallace, Mr. H. Sumner, the ChM. indebted to its fears for the conviction it ought to cellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Giles ; iu come. have derived from its prudence, when it ceased to re quence of which the House divided, when their spect the dictates of justice. Error, founded in guilty were , intention, is prolific—the mistakes of his Majesty's PRINCE REGENT. For the Grant Against it Majority When the gallery was re-opened, we found Sir JOHN NEWPORT on his legs, putting question to the Speaker, with respect to the distri-i bution of the books containing the records of Par. liament. The SPEAKER said, that about two years ago a commission was appointed, of which he was a mem ber, to take care that those books should be placed in different parts of the country, for the public ad vantage. Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied, that if a Mem ber wanted now to consult one of those hooks, he should be obliged to purchase them at a bookseller's. He therefore gave notice ; that on Monday he would move that those books should be distributed to the Members, as had been the usual custom until within the last year. SINECURE OFFICES. Mr. lIANKR4 moved for the revival of the Com mittee of Public Expenditure and of Sinecure Offi ces. Mr. WALLACE moved for an account of the number of Stall appointments at Fort St. George, and for some papers connected with East India af fairs.—Qrdered : and the House then adjourned. otaj ys confidential advisers, in 1791, engendered not errors but crimes, and an obstinate perseverance in guilt and folly has been continued, until Vice herself seems ex hausted of her means—yet,it ith all these fair prospects of a brighter day, with' common sense dawning on the country, after a terrific might. of almost eighteen lyears' duration, sheaving most distinctly the line of conduct it behoves her to pursue; no effectual good I can be expected, unless your Royal highness, par taking of the general feeling, comes forward and con tributes, by your presence and your efforts, to the pre servation of your inheritance, and of the rights of the people. From this favourable disposition on the part of the nation, no longer blinded by the nonsense and bombast of Indemnity for the part, and se curtly far the future,' you have every thing to hope— neglect the occasion, and you have every thing to fear. The people know nothing of you but through the medium of the worst species of assassins-•-the vilest class of mankind—of men who, with a pen in one hand and a pistol in the other, levy contributions Indiscriminately on the innocent and the guilty— earning a dishonourable livelihood by means the most infamous and atrocious. No, Sir! It is not from men of this description that the nation should be informed of the character of its Heir Apparent—it is from yourself,—it is from your own conduct, that the people should acquire a knowledge of your vir tues, and even of your vices, if you have any, and not from a vagrant herd of unprincipled scribblers, who, abusing you one day, present themselves to you the next, and implore, on their knees, your forgive ness and your charity ! In all parts of the town our walls are polluted with advertisements of letters ad dressed to your Royal highness, the writers of which mean nothing more than to extort from your fears, I what they dare not solicit from your compassion.-- The veneration in which your Royal Highness is said to hold the liberties of the people, and your evident aversion to restrain even the licentiousuest of the Press, have emboldened the audacity of these ruffians, who, counting no less on your benevolence than on your forbearance, have carried on an atrocious traffic in calumny, taxing, for daily subsistence, the malice of mankind, and lying to (Tarlton-house, when pressed by hunger, with pretended atonements for the injustice they have done you !—Placed, Sir, on I the Throne, as you must be in course of time, would 1 your Royal Highness listen for a moment to the threats or to the solicitations of such men ? Would you not feel yourself dish ononred even by the sup; position that you could deseesid so low ? lam 'Xi you would let me then conjure you, to feel Oat . what would be incompatible with your dignity as So- vereign, is no less so with what you owe to yourself as Prince of Wales—To the menaces and supplications of such mendicants no answer should be given— Newgate and the cart's tail should correct the atro city of the one, and a house of industry reprove the baseness of the other—conscious of your importauce in the state, or rather of your value to its existence, come forward to the people —spew that you can deg serve their confidence and affection—let Carlton House be no longer a sepulchre in which your per son, your good qualities, your fame, fortune, and happiness are entombetl 7 —come forward, in your real character—refute by your presence the slanders of those who faucy they have an interest in depressing you in the public opinion, and of those swho have dared to convert that depression into ways and means for a precarious and dishonest livelihood. . Shew to 1 the nation — chew to Europe , and l u the wend, that , however you have been misled, f have not l de served the misrepresentations of which it was meant to have made you the victim—once more I conjure you to come forward, and display your real charac ter to the nation—let them see—let them know their Prince—give them an opportunity to judge for them selves—their discernment is equal to the estimate, RULE BRITANNLI. By examining the different maps, where the extent of countries are pretty accurately laid down, it ap pears that the domiaions of Great Britain, in Eu rope, Asia, Africa, and America, considerably ex ceed, in size, the whole extent of Europe, and that we have a population absolutely under our sway little short of on hundred million of souls, add to this a Navy superior to all the world united! !! With such a lever in the hands of a towering. genius, what could not be done? in the hands of a BONAPARTE what would be done ? The real subjects of Great Britain, are nearly three times the number of the real acknowledged subjects of BONAPARTE. Many millions of our Indian subjects are excellent soldiers; why are they not sent to Sicily, Malta, the West Indies, Africa, Botany Bay, and other places suited to their constitutions? We send British troops to all those places, why not send 'lndian troops also ? They are as completely iincler our dominion and in our pay as the other ; they are better habituated to hot climates, and far easier supported; what a saving of British blood this would prove, and what a su- , perabundance of troops for European warfare—nor ! would there be the slightest chance of mutiny. We ; shouldeogagathein on those duties for a certain time, as we do with the Lascars who navigate our India ship ping, under the obligation to be sent home at a stated period, and any mutiny would prevent the hopoof their return, as they would never have the command of I shipping. We see BONAPARTE bring eren his aux.! iliaries from the farthest point of the north to the farthest point of the west. if we follow his example, we shall be more than a match for him in numerical strength. What a glorious sight it would be, to see a battalion of our brave Seapoys cut his Polish Lincers to pieces ! The whine of Britain's sun being I set is childish ! GREAT BRITAIN, Al' THIS MOMENT, IS BUT A HERCULES IN THE CR IDLE-.-.4the possesses ten • times the resources of any power in Europe, ir pro perly developed. If some great genius was to start up and take the helm, then would the tremendous power of Great Britain be known and acknow- ' !edged. It is not simply the population she'com mands that could make her great ; •in some part or other of her dominions she possesses all the sinews I . of war, and all the arts of peace ; and•with regard to the precious metals, not an ounce of gold or silver should enter Europe but by her consent. Contem plate this, ye Lilliput Statesmen, and do not conti nue to disgust evert man of sense with your pitiful petty squabble's ! 'the game is completely iu your own hand, but you don't know how to play it ! One great mind could erect the standard of Great Britain over the whole habitable world ! ! pern 9.2aan-soan uare, THE, GhOST OF C.ESAR. J. . . . . r. ,~~ ,-, ~. and the i r fiat will silence for ever the falsehoral, ; which_ have assailed your Royal from Highness • pa. laces and from garrets. Your mind should elevaie itself to the enterprize —your fortunes depend (T og the effort--eand it only requires the resolve of a mo , tent, and a firm adherence to that resolve, to esti n . guish the faction for ever that would eclipse )0:r, and discredit the hungry and profligate adveaturecc, who endeavour to disgrace you in the public op 11 1;,„, ' Look around you, Sir, in every direction, and hell in the patient submission of the people to the innumerable sacrifices they have made to the Krec, and to the splendour of his Family, from th e vo r y commencement of his eveutful reign, iitstari cN o r loyalty, sufficient to have shamed the Advise,; of your Father into feelings of commiseration, for the general distress that preivails, if their affections fo r his MAJTATT had borne any affinity ;with their pro. fessions,—Harassed by impositions that even bea r hard upon affluence, in order to maintain an un. availing contest with an enemy who supports his immaiv °Li tae expence of tho,ol her% :rushoti Lint ;—hayass'eti still r:,,re th e velegive; mode of collecting thus , impo • ;_ itas well as pillaged, by th e (1. n description of peottle. ; uakt , L:s rti 4 tetts'arbitrary times, who, nuking the infamy of the informer with the business of the surveyor, and securo.of protection from those who ought to discountenance such practices, speculate in inft , r. .mations, and live by the plunder of their nei4h. boars.—lt is not sufficient it seems to grind us, but we must be trampled under foot by the horses that work the mill.—Without an immediate practica. ble remedy for fiscal depredations committed by a inotley army of freebooters ;—the Constitution daily undermined, or openly assailed by pretended rcgu. lations, smuggled in a manner through Parliament— destroying our liberties, while they favour the mer. ciless extortions that beggar us—to whom are we to look up for an alleviation of our calamities, but to those to whom the laws have assigned the guardian. ship of our rights? But if they should be supine, or indifferent to our grievances, where then is our appeal ? The question deserves consideration, avid it is for your Royal Highness to reflect on the nature of the resort to which injustice may drive a generous and patient people. The wanton waste of public revenue in France produced a revolution that Las disturbed the moral order of the universe;—let the servants of the Crown be careful, Sir, that the tortions and oppressions—the rapacity of the fiscal to keep pace with the profusion of expenditure, du not produce a similar catastrophe in this count/5 and prolong the miseries of mankind.—We have iet a co.: ntry worth living in, and a constitution worth repairing—a farther prolongation of hostilities may endanger t . le one, and annihilate the otlor. The 1 1 system that has conducted us.to this lamentable crisis, and which dates from 171,0, must be abandoned, or we shell soon, perhaps, have occasion to recipro cally deplore our infatuation, and to exclaim, in the language of the poet—' Fuimus Troes—ilid Ilirun !' 'V° add to the general ill-humour and well-founded discontents which pervade the kingdom, the confi. dential servants of your father have had the temerity to identify themselves with their Sovereign, aneto exact from our loyalty an implicit confidence in their measures. An unbounded confidence in their wis dom is in fact expected, although it has not been de manded in form, as a proof of our attachment to the throne. Reprove, Sir, the licetittousnem as well as the impertinence, of such an expectation, by set ting an exampie of patriotism which they will do well to imitate. Identify your cause with that of the people ;—convince them you feel for their elide- Cons, and shew yourself sensible of the value of cha• racter, by asserting the respect due to your own. — The occasion is auspicious to the recovery of your Came;—to the preseryation of the constitution.— YOur friends expect from your integrity that you will justify Vie assurances :they have given of your *top, and your honour is bound to redeem the .oedge. The people; no 'longer abused by the mis ,eikevout representations of your enemies, will be hapW to see You assume the dignified character of 41eii Apparent, and to luili v ispe,4s their fteure we vigil:. Accede to their loyal, to their affectionate invitation—cease to live any, longer estranged from your best, friends—from yourself, and from the world. Prove yourself viiorilly of the diadem you • are destined to wear, by displaying the good quali ties you are said to possess ; you will then become the idol of your country, and—Save the Empire!" LIST OF TIIE MINORITY or R. D'IOURRAX, ESQ. FOR AN 1109151 RY INTIP TRY APFLICA MON OF TH E DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. --.lllllPm Abercromby ,lie. I. I 1 1414, D. Adams, C. Giles, I). Bab ingtun ' , fie..ll, P. Baring, A. Herbert, Hun. W. Bt sawn, Hon. Iti Eller, F. Bennett, ninon A. !to., aril. Hon. W. Blackford, B. P. Kemp, T. R. Brand, Finn. T. rutiot, R. Brougham, H. Unit), Hue. W. i Burdett, Sir F. • Latouche, D. ' Colborne. N. W. R. Letletoo, Hon. W. Combs. H. C. ,Imedonald, J. Eden, lion. (.1. Martin. H. Folkestone, Vise. Ord, W. o , sidoon. I or , i'ol,..onbv, Nu in. , . Ilt , tchiti;...ll, C. if. Freer antl.. SirS• Slutepe. It. Smith, W. Tracy, C. 11. Tierney. Verson, G. VV. Whiti.r.sd, Wreetesley, IT. - • In consequence of the investi,olion carried on by the directions of the /AAP isiIeCTENIAPIT of Ireland, Into the conduct of the Pacing Board, Aldine .11 TRE VOR and GEORGE Ewmo, Esq. Comnds . ilne rs, and Mr. itossuluoutt, Secretary . , have been dssmissed from ti.at ixstabluhweot. - '~ ,~ Pt! I, l ‘ 1-