The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-02-09 00:00:00

• "--.7AF): _ : ~, 1 r', " .. .. ~ ~~,,, t ,,..,~.,.,,... K MINORITY ♦6.0 N :7T ?Ilk SCSMISION Or Tat HABEAS CORPUS ACT-.- 60 to 195. Hon. J. Abercrombie, S. B. M. Barrett, T. W. Beau mont, Ben. Benvon, K. Bernal, J. Rink, H. Bright, H. Brougham, Sir F. Burdett, Lord Burr, N. Calvert. 4'. Calvert, J. Carter, Lord Clifton, Thos. C S. Crampton, Col. Davies, Thos. Denman, W. J. Deni son, Vi'.c. Ehringtoth E. Ellis, R. Ferranti. Sir IL. Per. utism, Lord W. Fitzgerald, Hon. IL Fitzgibbon. Lord 11'. Fitzroy, Lord Folkestone, Lord Fo.A—.S, J. (ration, H. Gurney. Cord A. Hamilton, Sir Rohl. Heron, Lord A. Hill, W. P. Honvwood, J. C. Ilohhonse, J. Home, Win. James, Col. :Johnson. 1. 11. Lamhton, T. B. Leonard, Dr. Imshinpoh, J. Moberly, Col. Mai:writ% Sir J. Mackintosh, S. Majoribanks, *P. Moore, 'mid Nisgent, Sir J. 'New port, Wm. Ord, Lord Ossulston, cot Palmer, Kohl. Prier, 1). Ricardo, A. W. Itobarts, CA. Huharts, W. ltickford, T. S. Rice, J. Scarlett, F.arl Sefton. W. Smith, Hon. B. Smith, imril J. Stuart, Bight Hon. O. Tierney, C. Tennreon, Sir Kubt. Wilson, Mr. Md. Wood, Sir T. E: Wilmington. tk:ll.llll6.—Hon. O. Bennet, and Hon. H. Hutchinson. - - DIARY FOR THE ENSUING IFRER. *Vita TES 1111M5 Oi MGR WATS& AT 'L Pleb. lA, 4.--sex %nevi's* SVN•AT. High ater—neern. 3; tn. after 4 ; even. 30 at. after 4. I I, M —Mature sets 23 vein. after 10 even. I High weier—aeoro. 7 on. afterb; even. 43.. aft. 8. 12. T.—lliftery Term rads. Met ureter—morn. 40a. after 6; even. ao lc aft. 13, W.—Jupiter sets 40 m. after 10 even. Itigh wilt-I.—worn. 40 a. after 6 ; even. 43 AL err. G. rt, 'lll.—raket. 0. tend. D.-51nON LAST QuAlt. 3 MORN. Ifirh Ater—intern. ft a. after 7; even. 27 ra. after 7. 13, F.—Mars rises I in, after 6 even. • Hieli witler--inern.6 m. after 8; &reit. 27 'Lifter 8. 16, b.—Co-hos sets 7 in. after 8 eves. II ieh water—worm. It imallreell; even. 470. after 0. —— - PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rao% 5tack............ fig I lisdlispittßk. X per t:eqs. a.i. 77si l Ditto Bonds .....7Sl.79e.psa Xiber Ct.Coa. XI per Vest M South Sea Old Ana 4 per Coats • 9A 71 1 Es. Bill tel. wont. 05.1%.75. pm 6 per Cts. Way well ! ; -6001. be. Oe.7s. pm 3 nerl4nt 1 Small 7s. 10s. pm Long Ana IQ i 0 roe. for Aert nliii Imp. 3 per Cod ; India far ditto Irich .5 crf CITA ' T.ott. Tickets l9l. Its ebt t tattinnan• ." VAS lAITISG 11 SSSSS AN" I/ vccompb SSSSS WITS " 1111 ITATILIMIAX." LONDON: « , , 11ATIIIIDAT EVENING, lEBRUMIT 9. 1822. - - 7'..470CK EXCHANGE, TEN O'CLOCK. . Th. this morning at nit, with lit tle busineas doing; but the market was steady at the a;ore prices. ELEVEN O'CLOCK. As this moment *ere is a great deal of holiness trativactieg in the Five per Cents. which are 1061 Consols remain steady at the first quotation. Tie Irish papers received to-day, communicate scarcely any but favourable accounts from the dis terbed districts. Attempts, indeed, were made b some weak or mischievous persons in Cork, to trite an unfounded alarm about en insurrection, among tln lit:habitants of that city.--Had the same pains beep taken, since the commencement of the disorders in Ire • land, to remedy their causes as to exaggerate their effects. there would have bees so oreasioo at this time for the Insurrection Act to supersede the Act of Mr Las Copra. New Brunswick papers have arrived this morninr to the 20th of December, and Charleston to the sth of Jactrry. The former contain no intelligence of im portance, and the latter only mention the arrival of a Biitiah man of %di' at Turks' Island, with 50 pirati cal privateer's men on board, in irons, who bad been taker, a short time before in the vicinity of Santa Martha. Five Hamburg Mails arrived t.-day. but, being of ac oW datr, the intelligence they contain has been actiripatcd. The Paris papers of Wednesday bring the conclusion of the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, on the new rrrrr it.tive law of the Press. When the President, on Tuesday. was about to pat the qnestion on the first paragraph of the law, a very extraordinary scene of confusion missed. At one moment all the extrema left rose with a menacing air. Several of the Members of that side declared their intention not to vote. Some exclaimed against the measure as infamous, sad the majority as having covered itself with disgrace. IL de Fsye:te, says the French reporter, pronounced very distinctly these words:—" We protest and we appeal from this proceeding to the energy of the French peo ple." We all, addel M. de Gravamens, make the same protestation.—While the disorder was at its height, the President put the question to the vote. All the right, Ike right centre, and the centre, properly se called, roar simultaneously amidst cries of not le Roi. The extreme lefr„ more and more agitated, took no part in the proceeding. New cries of flee le Roi arose as the President announced the adoption of the first pars. graph. On an Amendment of bl. Bonnet's being pet to the ►ote, it us met with the exclamations--" the Charter is no snore ;"—" we are no longer a Chaos her." In the course of the discussion, id. Cassimir Perrier closed with the following expressions :—" We hare defended with all our poWer the last ramparts of public liberty, and now that all our efforts have failed Wore the vote of the majority, we are reduced to silence, and to ensue merely passi►e. We have not Bios& proper to vote; we considered that it was our duty not to give the assistance of our co-operation to a law whose only tendency is to put power into the hands of the snow:my." The Reales on Wednesday opened at 89f. 30e. ; they soon rose to b9f. 4k.; but afterwards declined .1 , to 98f. 90c. at which price they weed at three e'clock in the afternoon, the hour of sending the printed list to press. _~~ The Ultra eaya.—" ItverY person of real Imassoity must rejoice in the dtcisive measures which Parlia ment is tilting to put down the horrible outrages in Ireland." We should rather conclude, th:tt every hu mane mind would revolt at the contemplation of such unconstitutional. cruel, and ineffectual measures. The words we have here used faithfully characterile the Bills. They arc unconetitutional in awardinz punish ment without bill found against the accused by a Drawl Jary, or verdict by &Petty Jury ; and its the sus pension'tif the IlaGcaN Corpse Act. They are cruel, because of the power they give the tools of Govern ment to birrass, and eveh destroy, the hiendibf free dom. in virtue of the suspension of the fla&co: Cotpra Act, ar.d stassequen; indemnity fur every atroeity l committed under colour of the suspension. And they will be found ineffectual, inasmuch as .they do not apply to the removal of the grievalices of Which the 'lash complain, and of Which they *ill never cease to complain until removed. There wait no need for an Insurrection Bill, because the pre sent laws are cotopktely surii.ient to put down all the insurrection which exists; and, if there wire a rile sity for such a Bill, there was ,w-gilf. fialr the Sus pensiou Bill with indemnity for all crimes committed under its ranction. The only use of a Suspension and Indemnity Uill is, to erred the progress of men who are end savouring to remedy abuses in the !itate by Constitittional means. As to the practices of the traitor, it is useless ; because the ordinary law will hang him, and, if the ordinary law fail, the lusurree tion Bill is at hand to dispose of him. All measures of new and increased severity, have hithe'rto been in effeethal in curing the disordeis in Ireland, because they have only filled graves with the bodies of the disaffected, and have offered no halm to the wounds of the living. It is, as if Government were enamoured of being the executioner of its subjece. and not their father and protector. Dow, then, cab any person of real hutisanity" rejoice in the present measure of Parliatut sit against the ever unfortu nate Irish? They will rather reprobate each Inca stare, with an unutterable lortlsiog and will ab hor such men as the Ultra, who can find it in the hardness of his heart to defend them For the Par iiansent, thatis, the great part of the majority of the Common', who have voted fur the Bill, we sincerely oily them. They have, at length. discovered the er ror of the policy of Ministers as regards the question if the Agricultural Distresses. Itilt as to the policy if Ministers in their Governmeut of Leland, it was on deeply rooted in ioigeity, tett too olosely inter woven with ancient prekttiosettm±pi a ' foe_ tith :oustry gentlemen to see thWlsTit. or to anspect ib •normity. We do not, therefore, despair of the cons ,ry gentlemen. Through their own sufferings, they .rill be taught to suspect the universal evil which a profligate and relentless administration bas inflicted upon the whole empire ; and circumstances may call_upon them to revise their present Acts re -peeling Ireland. It will not be ton much to hope that, then, the Statute boots will, speedily afterwards, be purged of the disgrace of all such acts. The Ultra, in speaking with great alacrity and joy of the triumph of his foreign friends, the Ultra- Administration of France, in getting their sew gag• ging Bill through the Chamber of Deputies, says— " We shall be well satisfied, if Lord Livairoot. goes through the present Session with so powerful a ma jority in the House of Commune as M. de VILELLE has obtained in the Chamber of Deputies." It is pitiable to see how the hirelings of Ministers continually blue der in the means they use to flatter their employers, whom they wound oftener than they gratify. The words we have just quoted, betray a lurking fear of ill days, for Ministers, to come yet, in the House of Com mons. The Ultra knows that fear to be well founded ; and feels, that we shall not see Lord LIVERPOOL go through the present Session with that triumph lie would fain make ns believe he an ticipated. His Lordship has still to meet the country gentlemen on that ground,.which is now pm , timely known to them, and on which, the late county meetings have accustomed them to fight with success. We shall be much surpris:d.if his Lordship then Fazio tains the Majorities of which the Ultra sp. aks so fondly and endearingly. It is well worthy of remark, that all who advocated the present Bills for traenuil- Ireland, (excepting Ministers sod their drilled troops,) or who half acquiesced in them, admitted the nnconstilutional, arbitrary character of those measures. All arguments in their b .half seemed to be abandon ed, but those which might arise from the known abi lity and prudence of the present Loan LIRCTIGNANT. But the grounds of confidence in the Noble Marquess who governs Ireland, are lost. IVlcen he undertook the government of that country, we thought, and all good men were willing to think, that be might have done so, meaning to shake off such man as Lord LONDONDERRY, sod to act fur the real benefit of Ireland, with the powers of the enlarged mind he possesses. We were the more justified in this, because the Marquess IVELLzsbae hail been publicly known to characterise Lord LONDONDERRY as an incapable statesman ; and we concluded his Lordship's proud mind would nut stoup to be the tool of such a would-be statesman. But poverty, and a love of splendour and self-indulgence, are capable of overlayiv the greatest virtues, and rendering the most splendid talents worse than useless. • • f HE ' StATMMAN:' Our repeated observations on the affairs of I: eland are preyed to have hoe° correct. by the debve of Thursday and last night. The nsual remedies for pa cifying and enriching the people of tb.st °pressed country are again to be resorted to. The I osurreetioo Act, and Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, ere again prescribed as cures. The arming and calling out of the Yeoman clearly evinced the inclination of the ruling powers to keep alive the old game which, for so many years, has destroyed the happiness of the un- , fortunate Irish. It was not sufficient to conviace a' certain corrupt majority, that these m aaaaaa • were tried, re-tried, and always found to fail ; it was sot sufficient to convince them, that a specific Act did exist to riniali Wlsitehoyisin ; it was not sufficient that the Judges told them, at the last commission in Limerick, that the existing laws were adequate to pe ttish any act of insuhordiatstion or breach of the peace; nothing short ef,lbe favourite "p i m a "' of trinsporting could be listened to by our clever peace makers. Even these transporting, would he a change for the better were they not accompanied by cruelty and tortures ;. but the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act will cry, Slarghter and lei slip the dare nj rear. The Noble Marquess at the head of theirisla Govern ment did not think this step necessary, or surely he would have intimated as mach in his famous ile• spectres. But his Majesty's Irish subjects are to b.- hunted down by the more abject slave-drivers that ever disgraced the West India Islands. We know well how the understrappers vend their private malice upon individuals, and, as an Honourable Member stated, it will soon be strewn how justice in Ireland will be bought and sold. The Members on both sides onerally agreed on the necessity of enquiry into Ike grievances the people labour odder. Coercion, with out enquiry and remedy. will prove as ineffectual as I ever. Nothing but severity has been adopted since the ;lotion, and no proper means have been tried to conciliate the jarring interests of the people. Onr readers still now tee how correctly we have anticipated these debates in the House of Commons. The removal of TITIIIII, the regnlation of livers, and the annihi. lation of ORA:4OMM, we ha►e often said, are the only 'petrifies for pacifying Ireland, and we now say the same thing upon Parliamen►ary authority. The attention of the Goose of Commons was last night called to the ease of Mr. Hlll7, in consequence of a petition from his son, complaining of being re: fosed permission to visit his father ia his confinement in Helmet'? Gaol. We have reputedly stated the untimeots we frit at the senteow passed on Mr. Hunt, and readily communicated the information we received last week of the unexpected aggravation be bed experienced in tkeprivatioa of the visits of his feieemis sod fatality. This rigour, Mr. H. was of °pi ston, u we stated, had been occasioned by his having brought to light the great atrocities which were formerly committed in the manage meet of the Gaol. This, however, Mr. DICK INSON, one of the Members for the County of Somer- set, last night, contradicted. When Mr. H. was first suit to the gaol. Mr. D. said, there bad been no rules for it, signed by the Judges, and though tie roles triads bad been proposed by the Magistrates had been pretested to several of the Judges on the Circuit, for two years, if we remember, the signature of none of them could be obtained till the last General Session. The rules were then signed by Mr. Baron Olt NAM and Mr. Justice Bray, and became the prison law, which the Magistrates in the Quarter Session had no power to alter. Such is the statement Mr. Dicatxsow made of the occasion of Mr. HL 'Yes present rigorous treatment. The Courier, however, could not possibly conceive that it could happen so incidentally, and there fore thought proper to ascribe it to a cause which never bad existence except in the inaligsant mind of the calum niator. On Monday evening, aappeared, a paragraph in one of its columns, asserting that " Mr. HARDY. (the new Gaoler of Ilchester) had sent to town, complaining of the conduct of HUNT, anti requesting an order for his closer confinement." On seeing this falsehood, which, Mr. HARDT justly observed, effected the double pur pose of injuring his character and traducing that of a prisour, be very promptly addressed a letter to the Editor complaitsing of the malignant report, and unequi vocally stating, that since lie has bad the care of this gaol committed to his charge, he has never had the I slightest reason to complain of the conduct of Mr. Hear Or any of his visitors—quite the reverse." At a Court holden at Fist .. nem' Hall, on Thnrs day, the 7th of Feb. 1622, it u as resolved onaninsou-ly, That this Court do prvseot the Freedom of this Company to Joseph Hume. Esq. Member of Parliament for the Boroughs of Montrose, Breehin, Le. for his unwearied exertions in endeavouring to promote public economy and retrenchment, n herein he has proved himself a faithful guardian of the pubiir purse, and the firm and upright Representative of the People. The East India Company's ship ti I Harris, sailed from Madras, on her voyage to China, the iti:h Augnst. The Farquharson aerie. dat Penang, on her voyage from Bombay to China, the 2.1 August. The Marquess of Wellington and Thomas Grenville, 'reit e at Madras on the sth of Septembi.r, and sailed for Calcutta, the former on the 2141. the latter as the 22nd of the same month. The Marquess of Camden pot into Penang on the lath of Angutt, anal proceeded on her voyage to China on the 2:rth of the Lune month. A letter from Santa Cm, Teneritfe. states, that a small squadron of French ships of war, consisting of the Aosuen, b 8 guns, toe &penance. 28 eons, the l'u• rieuX, 18 pas, and the Lem, 6 guns, arrived there from Brest on the 21st of November last, and sailed on the 4th of December for Itio Jaueiro. a- ' .- ADDRESSES TO rim Ilf UENS WELLZ7-17 A Ihleetiog of the essaaty of Ken.), to addre s his Excellency Ilse Lord Lieateoaa•, was tooven.sl by t h e High Sheriff, at Trailer. on liotbla).—The lion for that popose was anuseronsly and most resp ect , ably signed. A Meeting of the city of Cork was held on Tuesday fur the same impose. The Leinsier ournal says—" We learn that li,e Corporation of the city of Kilkenny have deora a i ne q , after cognise deliberation, not to address the Marque., Wellealey on his arrival. flow deeply mat his E r , celleney feel this severs neglect ! The silence of t 1 rinwout is satire." THE KING'S COURT. Yesterday Ils Majcay held a Court fur the wp me of receiving the Amines of the House of Cotutuoc•, which was presented by a deputation, with the Spealvt at their bead. his Majesty afterwards held a Lere,, which, however, was the thinnest we ever recollect t o have seen, owing (says the Court newsman) to the shortness of the notice, and its having commeaced at rather an earlier boar than asual.—Numbers are said to have arr:vcd too late after the doors were eased, and the King bad left the Levee-room: among th em wart--the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kisi's Bench, Earl Darnley, Lord Clifton. and Viscotat Morpeth. The Sheri& of Landes *al 111kWle sea were on their road, but being informed the Levy was closed, returned, as did numerous others. After the Levee, Sir IL Perry, K.C.8., was jaba aimed to his Majesty by Sir George Naylor, on his motion as leer Admiral, to ►e invested witb the star of a Knight Commander of the Illatk.—His Ms jesty held a Privy Council, in w►ick . ebm alteratims we re: made in the pricked list for %milk. The King gave audiences to Mr. Peel, the Earl of Liverpool, the Marques of Loaslosderry, Mr. C. Wynn, fat. LENT ASSIZES. some ciactxr• Before Sir R. Gatti tat, Knt. anif Sir G. Worm. K. HerP•irdaliire—Thsrsdav, Mara 7; at Hertford. Esiiex—Monday, March 11, at Cheim.foril. Kent—Monday, March 18, at Maidistuni.. Siimex—Monday, March 25, at Horsham. Surrey—Thursday, slarch 2S, at Kingston-upon- Thallle4. nxrcato clocirfa Before Sir War. GARROW and Mr. Ju‘tire Ricu.tassoN. Berkshire—Monday, March 1, at Reading. Oxfordshire—Wednesday, March 6, ate tx ford. Worcestershire—Saturday, March 9, at IVorcester. City of Wurcestester—Same day, at Worcester. Staffordshire—Thursday, March 1 I, at Stafford. Shropshire—Weilneolay, March 20, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire—Monday, March 25, at Hereford. Monmouthshire—Satnritay, March 30, at 3lonmostit. Gloceatershire—Wedneaday, April 3, at Gleceater. City of Glocester—Sause day, lathe City of Olocesta. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Before Sir lloscaT DALLAS/ and Sir W. D. BHT. Northampton sh ire —Saturday, March 2, atNertltainp ton Rutland—Friday, March 9, at Oakluma. Lincoloshiti—Umada&Bacia44 oe 1 Culla d Lir eels. Ch y of Liacoln—Saw day, at the city of [ascots. Nottinghamshire—Friday, March 15. at Nottingham. Town of Nottingham—Same day, at 'the Meru of Not tingham. Derbyshire—Wednesday, March 20, at Derby. Leicestershire—Monday, March 25, at the Castle Obi. ceder. Borough o[ Leicester—Same day, at the borough of Lei (CAPT. Coritutry—Saturday, March 811, at Co/rotary. Warwickshire—Sage day, at Warwick. The most powerfully contested election took °tare on Thursday at Merchant Tailor's Hall, for the situa tion of Clerk to that Company, that hes beta known for inlay years, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Teesdale. There were originally thirty-fear CV • didatea, comprising iii the 4 number the most trident solicitors in London, and as the day of Eiretios drew near, the interest excited was universal throughout the city. After the list of candidates had been coe siderahly reduced, first in consequence of several Hee dewiest having withdrawn their oarless, and subse quently by ballot, the mutest lay between Mr. &mill. of Bridge -street, and M-. Dawes, of Angel-coert, when the former was elected by a large e.sjority. Duei..—An affair of honour took place on Monday, in a field near kinchley, bet.reen Me. 0. S. &needed Mr. L. and Capt. W. attended by Mr. W. They fired at eight paces; Mr. S. received the Captain's shot : through his forage cap, without reteivils any injury, and fired himself in the air; the sera s interfered without effect, Mr. S. refusing to opal ; and they again received the pistols. Mr. S. s g fired in the air, awl received another shot that Mt the collar et his coat, without injury, when the seconds aria interfered, and refused to allow the affair V° go on as) farther. SMOCKING Acctnemr.--On Friday moreing, ss a o ir woman, who gaiss her snb.i•teuce by soil* M. was on her way to Billingsgate-Market, osi turning tis corner of St. Dunstan's Hill, her foot slipped, and Ms received a ref) shutter to St. Thomas's Hospital, when it was disco vered that she bad brakes her leg in two &acts. DIED. At Caen, in Normandy, on the 19th of Deeerrher, of t pulmonary ennsomption, Michel O'Brien, Surgeon is tie Royal Navy, late Dispenser of the Naval Hospital, Nova Scotia. On the let inst. at Blidvrorth. in Nottingtmnriblre. J Rail. at the advanced meta IV, retaining all his tarui ties until the day of his death. On the 3U% ult. at Dawliab. in 23J year of his are. of a decline. Henry Votary Jackson, EN. ofJesu‘Cui.olQ ll . only 5011 of U. Jai:Lida. Ivq. Lower Sketty. Swan.es. On Ot• ith inst. in Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-Nun re. aged II y.ars. Sophia Catherine Petcher, eWest.laughter of the late Isnwnted Sir D. Fletcher, Raft. of .1 shiny l'ark Sur rey: she survived her father only five mouths, andr,l'i" uo the anniver.ary of his hirth-day. On the 111111811. R. lescsta, only daughter of Hr. Jos. Fo;g, of Ito r it.—And Oil the Ist inst. Elihatietd, wife of lir. Joseph Fogg. Re gent-street. On Wednesday, at her house fa Pa11.71111:1. 1.3 , 1) 111 ' hury, relict 01 inc late Sir I'. C. Bunbor), Sart in .he /cot year of her age. --- London Eeited, ?rioted. and Pebtlebest et the Ott. o of " Tits te.'••X " ald "TR, CON•IITICUON •( , ';1 86, d , Paper). Na. 1 9 $. Stes.id, opposite St. newel:Cs by R W to srnon sit Ullir3•..i.gb [ Orders, tie. are reqoosted to be atYr•vitd. I ■ . 4 • .~:~. ••••=...:.. Lea. i~+