The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1819-12-22 00:00:00

11 )6‘ in the rest of d as a hitants le debt extract of the Onion, th 4 re-au- to hit tick nit ktion of ; those 46th of rir ser- Ct to a The ing for in in a of the rlrr t he 'he pro. rit corn- rived of at right time for of their vice fur it* ex. I ? cola le Uwe ►der the rd for a len that iit if he led to a The queAt;on was then pet, ■nd nevatived. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. illations int con. mly the t.f the r them, (Cu. he Pre-. Bill the on the of the 1:e, and Crown. that the service, be kept Ito give 1 , 11 , 1eS in Irrvire, for life, d. The him to inviolate mks:ion )e most which a h might ences.-- on the fe hoped 3011011"... io under , Il as by Laf WU tation to Jed were Elie Bill -subject, I of - the ul•Jtion*. an inde. e one on ted, that huge at rrguld.. power to Js which Brfore 11, what• ueed the T. The away the to make Indent of officer. period of pension, on what tothority Bill did ble right Irown up rick, did le Noble litary re. he pen• period., St it wu• I, he for. the clear w;h , , he en in the t be lii - ; maid as round of e of the e of bar. nsiontie. ut many le to bit I by the liable to ens eve re ty k es► was slut t preeeut id. ier, hoe• ot liable rriod for oil ohs dier the M pee 4 It being i':rd on to serve anew, unless he had served the 11111 three periods of service. He said, that mi. ,h m litedly where a soldier received a wound which ilk:Oiled him he was not lit to act. nor was he called I I! ; hut it was a different case with a pensioner who recovered from the effects of his wound, and Was fit fur service. There irJg nothing its the Act the regol.stion to prevent t•iirli person* from be i:os called mt. The Hon. Gentleman ne xt a ll u d e d the lee examinations of pen.iiitier., in which, he said, they shrwed the grra'est slaciity for the service, and in many caves attempted to conceal :heir wounds. Mr..l. P. GRANT said, he admitted that pen ‘infierr, on the score of services. went bound to !..1111' the ihrre full periodt. Imi vri4kres...4 to ‘"nonded pensioners, the co.. was different. The Act s.ii.l with respect to them, they alight be ve. Anired to be called isai to wry* sobl tin? cons. pleted the period of service. that is, the ported for which they had originally enlisted. Suppose that period was seven years, by what argument could it he miintained that that meant 21 years ? lle con. fe•wd he raw no question whatever on the ineaning of the Act. Mr. CALCRATT comidered that the Art gave a pension to ►oldtrrs who under that Act enlisted for ►even years, and during that time were wounded in the service; he could not see by what means inch pensioner could be compelled to serve again. Ile regretted the obscurity in which the law• hui been left, whoever were the author* of them. The proper doditiciion appeared to him to lie between those who were wouuded in their periods of !service, who, of course, were entitled to the benefits of the Act, without swing the whole time proposed, and those who were not wounded, who of c•sut‘e must be liable to serve their three full periods of seven 3 ear;. A tnesssigo from the Lords was tent, stating that their Lordships hod *greed to the Amendments in the Bill to reveal the delay of justice it, cases of migleitternor; and that their Lordships had pssioql the Cotton Manufactories Regulation Bill, said had also passed the Seditious Meetings Bill. with amendmeitts, to which they required the con currence of the House. Lord CAITLERBAGH moved that the Amend. metals of the Seditious Meetings Bill. brought hoe:: the Lord*. ►hould be taken into consideration tu• morrow.— Ordered. STA SIP DUTIES BILL._ Ills I.nrdthip then moved l h •t the Report on the Stamp Untie. Bill be brought up. After a ftw observations from Mr. BERNAL, Mr. DENMAN, and Lord CASTLIIREAGIN, the Re port wars brought up accordingly. It was then moved that the Amendments be read • second time. _ Mr. DENMAN complained of the House not beim; put into possesaiou of the Bill, with its Amerolineuts printed, mud yet that the House should be called on to proceed. Lord Csses.entseo reminded the Home, that it was petit-01y understood that Ike omen& Menus should be read Owen ; the Bill misbt be ',rimed as soon as ever the House should order it., Mr. Painaoss complained of the want of safe ticient opportunity to discuss the measure. The Honourable Member commented on the import ance and .lancer of the measures t in progress. lie come-soled that the liberty of the press hail been she best safeguard of the constitution and of pri vate property. This he considered as en answer to the Member for Corfe Castle, and those who, like him, referred the House to the dark and ar bitrary precedents of our past histcry ; he would have then considered that thine period* from which they were so food of quoting, and in which, as they boasted, there was nothiug like liberty for the press, werepreeisely those in which the country i lied beau least mpatient and secure in its charac ter cud poeseseions. A contrast had beets drawn between the present Merritt FM mad those of Charles end a sort of set-off attempted so behalf of the inmost Mini.try, by referring to that of William I 11. Such Honourable Member* would de well to remember, not what was done by that Ministry, but what was done by the House of Commons of flu same petit.% The Act of Charism II was re-ew. mete.' for one year; a Committee, appointed to it•quire into the expiring statutes, afterward,' re. vommesided its continuance; the Ministers also lienught down a Bill of the same kind yearly, for emus time afterward'; but thist House of Corn mous rejected every attempt to revive any such proeisiocs. Anions; numerous objectioos which the Houourable Member teak against the pre sent Bill was the absolute power it gave to the Attorney-General, as nu one could be sued fur the offerices crested by it but through an applica faun to that officer. This was to put the whole license of the press at the disposal of the Treuvury, to allow and prohibit jest as it suited them. To pass the Bill would, in his 'Mud, be rpm' to die charging the House of Commons from the three brauches of the State, and taking the first step towards actual revolution, by shuttle( out the cow. mursication of popular *Menus with the measures of Government. The Hournsrable Menthee con cluded a 'wig and argumentative sorrels, I.y press ing on the Mau the Necessity of allowing more time for deliberation, especially as hot more than two-thitils of the Members were in town. Mr. MARTIN pledged himself not to speak as long as the Hon. Gentleman who had jest sat down. He hid hoped that after the dramatic procession outside the House lust night, that the measures would have pissed in silent uceptiesomuee. He was •sorry to astute those who had expressed hopes of the ' qt.:Jill/sillily of !:eland, that their expectations would roe" to rrati-t-d. He had a teller its his Land—(4 44. ugh ; he had nuthimg in his ligisd.l 7 .lie begged 4tattlon for :A -mall mistake ; he had taken his hand +for Lis rock. t.—(Lusighter.)—Tile letter contained 'advice th a t .tratigers, imitating the accent of the country, kid been actively engaged its **raring in ti .e ioipulatitor. This, he thought, would be tir•-11.ell quite sufficient to warrant the speediest eilaciment of the new Bills.—(Laughter.)—As to the necessity of the one before the House, he would observe. that there was nothing so absurd, a nick, if frequently eersisted in by periodical e wets, the people would not believe. They would believe, if it were enforced by sufficient repetition, that the Hot,. Member who had spoken hot, had spokeo for au hour and a half without edifyitig the • Laughter.)—They would actually be lieve. if asserted and reiterated. that he way no orator. He severely censored the conduct of the Gentlemen opposite for leaving the House oft the last night jot is his Noble Friend was about to agree to the Petition of : the London Booksellers. He complimented himself on the 'imposition lie hail made for compelling publishers to purchase stock by way of security fo► fines they might incur. He contrasted this, his generous behaviour. with that of the Honourable Gentlemen opposite. who seemed anxious tlist the measures should go forth with as disgusting an effect as possible. The question was then put and carried affirma tively. . . . . The Amendments proposed by the ArrORNEY- GiNERAI. were brought up and agreed tu. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought up a new elause, for subjecting .malt pamphlets to the provi sions of the Stith of the King, which was read a first and second time. The Home reoolved into a Committee on the ciao*. ; it was agreed to. The !louse returned, the itrp , ,tt was brought up, and the Bill with its amendment* and slew clauses ordered to be printed. BLASPHEMOUS LIBELS BILL. LAM CASTLEREAGH moved the Order or the Day for the second leading of the Blasphemous Libels Bill. Lord EIIIIINGTON Wray and energetically en tered his ',uncut ugaitivt the whole ayviein of mea sures. and cuncluded by moving au amendment', that the word now, in the mntinn, should be left out, and the 15th of February inverted, The question was put, and a division about to take. place, when— Colonel Ditivtgs rose to express his astonishment that no arguments should be offered iu defeuce of the Bill by either the Ministers or the Attorney or Solicitor-General, in answer to the cutiviiiciug rea sons of his Hon. Friends against it. Mr. MONEY :god he should most cordintly give Isis vote for the second reading of the Bill, con sidering it calculated to protect the liberty against the licentioininess of the press. He could not help expressing his hope that this was nut the last of the measures so imperiously required for stemming. the tide of irreligion and blas phemy. It had b.en remarked by a dispassion ate observer of passing occurrences, that one of the must frightful features of the present times was, that elementary schools had been formed, where children might with the rudiments of learning be taught lessons of sedition and blasphemy.—('fries of " Nome, name," from the Opposition benches.) —He animadverted in very severe language on the existence, the conduct, and consequences of Sun day newspapers. A Petition had been presented to the House by himself, signed by seventy most re spectable news-venders, against the sale of Sunday papers, describing them in various instances as dis loyal, seditious, and profane. Air. W. SMITH said, that those who knew him best would suspect him as little as the Hon. Gentleman of a desire to promote blasphemy and disloyalty— (Hear, hear),—and if one word of evidence had appeared on u sufficient ground in relation to those schools of sedition and irreligion, of which the Hon. Member had so warmly complained, lie should be found us forward as any man to agree to almost any measures fur their repression. But unfortu nately their existence rested on the most vain allegations ; sot one of the primers of Was plietny had ever been produced.—(Hear, henr.)— He had long been of opinion that when men grew to be adult, the religion which was kept in them by law oily was very weak.—(Hear.)—lf lie could think that there was missy man wicked enough to instil blasphemy into youthful minds, lie i ould hardly imagine any punishment too severe for him, but he was a total infidel on this subject, and therefore lie could never consent to give up valuable parts of our constitution to suppress that, the existence of which rested on mere rumours, or hearsay-evitteict. In the course of the trials of Carlile, frequent allusion had been made to his humble uame; he should merely say, that so far as his defence was grounded on the Bill which lie hail the happiness to introduce into the House, it was most weak. He coutd appeal to a Noble Lord opposite, as to the fact of having had various private interviews at the period of propos;ng the measure with the respectable and venerable per sonage at the head of the Church of England, and certainly their common opinion had always been, that after the passing of that Act the punishment of blasphemy, by the common law, would stand on precisely the same grounds as before. But he ap prehended religion would be in no danger if every statute which protected it was taken away; on the contrary, lie believed that if they had always existed as they did now, that Christianity, which now flourished in this country, would never have been known. The part of the Bill before the House to which he most objected was that which introduced the new punishment of banishment. Mr. MONEY and Mr. W. Surrit mutually ex plained. The gallery was then nearly cleared fur a divi sion. when Mr. J. P. GRANT Tore. He said his object in addiessing the [louse was not 11l mccli to deliver his sentiments on the Bill, us to express hi. suns prise at 'the very extraordinary conduct of his Ma jesty's Minister', who, in endeavouring to pass into a law a measure which innovates as violently as sky ever proposed on the ancient constitutiou of the country, hail not deigned to mention a single reason to convince the House of its necessity, or I I of the expediency of altering that clause which had , come down from the other House. Mr. TiEutt EY put it to the Noble Lord (Castle reagh) whether he ►hould not allow the House a pau►ing time nod after the recess—whether be did out consider such an interval :Absolutely necestsury to enable the Hon-a to look into a measure of this very navel and important nature with due investiga• lion ? He could assure the Noble Lord that lie said so in the sincerity of his heart, and without any wish to embarrass the measures of his Majesty's _ Miuisters—(flear, hear.)—A Bill of a very itnpor. taut description was brought down there from the other House--no reasons were stated on its intro duction why the House should agree to it. Again. the Bill was altered—it was not the issue Bill that was sent down Irons the Lords. But to justify or skew the expediency of that. all they had heard from the Noble Lord oar, dor‘ he thought the punishment of tratispoitaliZu should be lobar Or e l I r; "• ••• v• • • 2 4 . -- • out *tit, 'and that .ment should stand ist_Aita Hear...par.) —And note, at this lAA seusou of thi yaw. without }thy other exploitation or argument, they were colled on to past a lliii, - including a pro. vision - which Was an absolute innovation on Ole law of the I, n d. For never before 114.1 a *hole c11%41f offences been subjected to the . penalty of b merit, thong!' individual crirttes might, In hia conscience, he thought that he should not die charge his duty to the !louse or the country, did he not ask tbe Noble Lord to give them an oppor tunity of pausing before they enacted such a measure. Lord CASTLEREAGH saiii,.that if the ineisure had been of the same complicated nature OP the for the !screen/ion of Seditious Nleetini,tt. he should adiiuit that there W l lB 90111 e farce in the Right Hun. Gent lemaies appeal ; but the principle of this measure was simple anti its details few. Ile did certainly conceive that in the of all the measures, he had submitted to the House the principles of this mes-tire as fully as was necessity. The Bight floonutable Geo tlemau said, it was not the shine BM which had passed the other house, but lie insisted that he ha , l stated with sufficient fullness the reasons why he thought the clause should have been altered. It rested with Getitlemen opposite to state their orgn merits to the measure; if they did an, he trii-tell they should receive an answer loon his role of tlit? House; but it could nut reasonably be expected Shot they should get up and make @vetches for nothirig, or in answer to spreears which seemed to him to bear on any subject hut that berme them. Ile thought the House would ahandon a great moral duty, if it should separate for the 11:did:ISIS whthuut 1/11%%1114 11114 11111, to protect the country from the greatest of the dangers and doigroces with which it hail heels affLcied.—(lleor, hear.) Sir JAMES AIACEINTOSII said he had entered the House in the expectation that those who had pros posed a new penal law, and a penal law ug dust the liberty of the press, would stare the reason. why they did so.—(llenr.)—But the Noble Lord iv that his oppoilents should first offer their objec tions. Ile said that whoever did so would render himself • party to the outrage committed on the Constitution by the Noble Lord —(Near) —be cause he would establish this odious priociple, that whatever Bill came (lowa front the (loose of Lords ought to he adopted by tics, without the slightest cau'e having been given to them. The Noble Lord had expressed himself ill such a manlier, as if lie looked oil the B:11 to he of so fri volous a nature, as hot to require any exploit o u. —(h ear, hear.)—He asserted that no 1141(711 distinc tion lay between this and the Seditious Nleetiogs Bill, as that contencltd for by the Noble Lord. The Noble Lord had not priori that the present law was insufficient, because the proposition was absolutely untenable. The ijoestom at present was the fitness of the remedy la meet the e xi.on i4 evil, and that the remedy would hot produce a greater evil. None of these tiiiiigs hail beers at tempted to be made out, and iii the few paragraphs of the Noble Lord's opening speech, it was impos sible. He should therefore vo:e fur the Amend ment of his Noble Frirod. The ArroaNev.GENEaAL sail!, that the charge against Members on his side of treating the Bill us frivolous, was wholly unjust. It appeared to him that the speeches which hail hero made by Gentle men opposite applied to any thing rather thito the Bill. The Learned Gentleman then took a minute view of the various efforts which had been matt for the prosecution of libels within the last five or silt years. and their consequences, for tire portrait' of establishing the inadequacy of the existing laws to their suppression. Ha did not memo to arraign the motives of any unto, but he fesrlepAy said, that the necessary effect of the conduct of those who set on fitot a subscription for Mr. Fluire,', was !moot prejudicial to the country. It held him up as a person persecuted and deserving of reward. The effect of it was to cause a prosecution fnt a libel to be considered as a prize to the indivir:ual, and hit Hon. and Learned Friend (we preturne the Solicitor-General) had received four or five letters from ',enrolls actually courting prosecution. Ins entrance into office lie had thought it his duty to prosecute laid* by c.r-r:gi eio informations, and by indictinetib, but no ;lumber of prosecutions could put a slop to the offence. I•,ws bring indequate to meet the evil, the object of the Bill was to crush its growth and existence. Sir JAmvis MACKINTOSH explained, that the dis tinction which he drew was between a mode of pre vention by previous restraint, and one by terror and penalty. lie still denied that endurilig soy punith tnent by banishment wa; applicable to offeoces committed by the press. That was indeed a new penalty. Lord Atrunny complained of the mode in which government proseculiolis had been conducted, and of the appeal- mode to ►tree socces-ive Junes by the Attorney-Gesirral in 31r. Flume's case. This perseverance accorded but little with the relaxation which followed it, couceruing cases•of a lets equi vocal nature. The ATTORVEY-GENERAL explained. He de fended the conduct of his predecessor in not ing prosecutions it' ter those ill rinitlids. The Nlarquis s f TxvisTucx ruse with great warmth. and said, that I hi, e.:os n ot the first allu sion which had beeii made by the Law Officers of the Crown to the case of Hone. They were nut coutented with castihg reflections on successive Juries, but they inmt include in their reprehension those who entered tutu the aiibberiptioli for Mr. Hone. Being tine of the subscribers to that fund, he felt it right to justify his conduct. Before lie did so, he must say, that, between the con duct of Hoerr ttttt cot on one hand. stud Mr. Hone on the other, proceeding■ haul been car ried to such an extreme. that the disgust which the parodies were naturally calculated to ex cite, was lost in the condemnation of the mode of proceeding to punish them. He repelled with contempt the imputation that those who subscribed to the fund for the relief of Mr. Hone were en couragers of blasphemy. That subscription was less intended to defend those parodies than to ex press the opinion which the subscribers had of the mode adopted iu the prosecution. They had seen Mr. Hone selected for prosecution for sit offence. riot only not prosecuted in other. cases, but where the parties who had previously committed it were couutenanced and favoured by Government, and endowed with hoooors. The coy ilaereatre w that i c tep ia 1 .• were , to fay. , ro f V ,val to:least, awi 111 the oilier iligainst them. The public kit indigos:A at steiii,c 'three prosecutions successively persevered in, for what was in fact but one offence. ;11r. I lone too had, ors the first trial, declared his determination nit to. re.puldivli airy of thane parodies, a deter enioatimi which lie hail since faithful;. kept. This avowal dud nut the less shield hint from the pros , rutionv. The sulhctileitia which way the only optairtnnity open at the tune, to mark the Prose of the public upon the Course pursued tawards the individual. flossy' r objectionable the mode of political II 'emission by parody on the sacred writing; u. qi se-6011.011y was„%lr. !Foie could plead abundant precedents for it. The Nulde Marquis then. appevilid to the recofectiou of the Right Hon. Gentleman typo- Site (llr. Causing), whether lie had trot in liti former, perhaps he might call them lila less prudent flay., indulged he such * mode of expressing his ferlihgv, and whether lit the time he ditl so. he was not, 'revert beless, capable of entertaining a just abhorrence of blasphemy and seditiaii.—( /fear.) The Sotact tO It-GENERA I. denied that he had ever imputed rot the subsctibers to Mr. Hone a direct lutenist - in of encouraging blasphemy and setlitiou ; but hr ha I snot, what lie now repeated, that the effect of tlie course they pursued was cai rn! tte.l to give a airier circulatio i to winks cf the lutist offensive kind. Ile spoke his own free and unbiassed opimmi upoicilie facts owl circumstances of the case. Before lie entered that Howie he W. 14 UtlCollitedett with any pIIIIItICaI party, nor had r ever lieen s member of uoy society. He felt hinsvelf entitled to cell the parodies of Haw pownear libels, hecainie they hail been so de saiernoest by that eminent moo, the late Chief Jus tice of the Yislirs Bench, and by the present Chief Justice s in their charges to the several Juries. Ile hail also the authinity of two coovictions of the game parodie4, to justify the opinion lie gave of tlieto. The lion. and Learned Gentleman then alluded to the public 'fleeing where .Jr. Hotie / s soloicrintiiiii originated. where Mr. Wonler pea- i litlaneril a most scandalous and iuf.unmatory attack on the Judge who tried hitn. Fresh u; that attack came the subscription, which lie was fire to udniit, contained the names of men of the highest rank, iirtegrity, rind patriotism. It was this lamentable display of support that rendered it hazardous to •irpeal in other cases to successive juries, fur nut doing whiirit hi. Majesty's Glove 11111 l rot wit so cen sured he Gentlemen opposite. The lion. and Leitrottl Geartlruuu then defended the consistency of the eipiitiosis which he thee' avowed, being those which load actuated him through Mr. SCARLET r admitted that lie never heard that his Ifiniouralda and Learned Friend had been a int-tuber of any political party before he tittered that House ; his present zeal, however, sliewed that lie liked the fitends ali i surrounded hum better flow th a n when he was :V4 acquainted with them.—(d lure.;/e.)—Tile Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to reilldrk on the act. terry which had been manifested to prosecute bleeds in the year 1811, cud subsequently.— Ile had hi math* seen twenty or five-and-I wenty persons brought up for sentence, who, though le sally respowithir, wrre, in a moral souse, free from ✓ay guilt. Fur libels in n ewspapetv, he had seen women, the trustees of tr. oillell, Utit:Ullatitit, and others, whose names were entered as propriews, brought op from MI parts of the country, rod pu nished fur the coinimvston of an uttroce, of which, in reality, they knew nothing. During the time when Sir W. eia.fil:V tilled the office of Attorney- General, only one case of libel (slr. Wooler's) was prosecuted, which Wei 110 t of a very aggravated nature. The Defendant exhibited a degree of talent which had a powerful influeoce on leis audience, Hurl via far in intetest vxcerded that GI the Amino c-Geutral, that lie verily believed an acquittal would have folianed, were it not fur the Defendant's own imprudence. Ile designated the Bill of Rights, the 1111 of 11Trutigit, and avowed himself the follower of l'Atoe ' s political doctrines; an avowal to which lie (Nit'. S.) imputed Isis cutivic tien. 'noun canoe on the second prosecution fur a publication, evidently sent forth with an air of Plegeilitry. The Defendatit treated it as such. Ile said, that after the tragedy clime the farce. The Juries participated in that feeling, and ac quitted him, a decision in which he fully concurred. Next came Mr. Moue's prosecutions for parodies on the Ailinnusiun Creed.. die Lita"!lt cud the Common Prurr. One'was charged as beiog pub halted with 'talent to revile the Litany, and bring it iota contempt. The motnent he knew that the offence was so laid in the niformation, he remarked to a men also was now au olutionent of the Deitch, that the Attorney. General would not get tatter men to agree in conviction. Parodies like the Deleudant's were of old standing. They had been published with impunity by Bishops, Ports, and Nliiiisters of State. One of them, celebrated, is The Freeholdeett Culechista," im puted trrualeously to Wilkes by Mr. Iloilo, was in fact the work of Dr. Arbuthuot, end had been rxtriisively circulated in the reign of Queen Anne. Parodies of that kind were often written by mess eminent for their le as wog and virtue, and were never before ottempted to Ise construed into offences against the religion and morals of the connnunity. As well might it have been said, that when AI r. Poison wrote his parodies on Pope's Eluisa and Abelard, lie iiitenited to bring that poem iota Cootrlllpt. 'Else Hon. and Learned Gentleman ilefemleil the people of this country from the imputatiou of ifietigion, and justified the suc. cessive acquittals of Mi. Hone, upon the helot* which the Juries entertained, that his object was not to bring the Scriptures into contempt. It was a libel on Juries to say, that because they acquitted in such cases they would tint convict in others otiere the intention was free Iron) ambiguity. Why, then, did the Government sleep throughout 1818, wheel they might have obtained mitten:lions of libels unquestionably blasphemous and sedi tious ? %Vas it necessary that such puolications should be tolerated, to laird a pretext for tie in. troduction of coercive measure* and restrictioue flu the tiberty of the subject ?---(Hear, hear.) Colonel WOOD said, that the reason lie should support this Bill fur punishing a libeller, and after wards expellitig him from the country, was from his conviction that the evil could iti no other man ner be abated. He would tell Gentlemen opposite I. .4 k":;: • gr •fr el fir ulet roe i• 1 ll• ur'. e t.: ;4 0 as:. Ale w a s t.1.:rt..1 with it I .age fanwy. ....•i• I.• Ninety he laid his hands on it. Tis I.r..te et ti• children f ltarieg their morels sat ped. he woul vrAit for the lii!. With respect to the seerroy f the plorii.hmeot, all he had to say as. it the libeller lifter awe riiiivirtnio, could oot (rain &ern a repoitine of his offence, deserved to sent out of th? country. The :louse their divided—the nortilwre wort For the Ameseintent Against it Majority spins' the Atneudgn.ol ll9 The BM was then read a evened trine, and or. tiered to be c ttttt fumed to-inorroo. The Benoit 4.f one Ctimmiltee of Supply ass then brought no, noel the Itestilutiours for thr Army Estuniers agreed to. The other Ordere of the Dry were ilispo•ed of, and the Monte adjourned at ONE O'CLOCK. is.. For Miseellwegoas see bud Page. E i i 111 Sit Pltli;;S. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1819. The Seditious Meetings Bill was read the third time lust night in the Home of Lord., and pissed with a few vie bal and clerical ainendineots. not affecting the principle of the measure. Ass ones 'nation was made during the debate, by EOl GitosirEKoit, that he would propose a clause ex. entliting Westminster from the operation of the Bill; hut the Noble Earl's inter tions were f trateil by the forms of the !louse. The E.,1 ..1 BLESINTON gave notice of a motion after the recess, tor the state of Ireland. Lest slight the Blaisphernous Libels Bull was read a teened time in the Muse of Commons. Lor.l EBRINGTON proposed as an anieridenerit, that the Ball should be read a second time the 15,11 of February. The amendment was negatived by a majority of 119, and the Bill ordered to be com- mitted this day. Yesterday Viscount Stbmotertt had an audience tf the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-house. The Duke of YORK visited the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. at Carling...house. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENcE arrived in town on Nlosiday eseunsg. (ruin Bushy Park. Yesterday I'rince LEOPOLD paid his dutiful respect* to the PRINCE REGENT. Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD honoured the Duke of Mostertose with his comparay at dinner, at his house in Grosvetior-square. 011 Aloullay eveuieg Prince LEOPOLD honoured Covent-garden theatre with his presence. A letter from Windsor. slated Dec. 20, sees— " Saturday the Duke of MONTROSE, went out of waiting on the KING. and left here for 1.. ~,,, luii. His Grace was relieved by the Marquis of CA MOEN. The Doke and Duchess of CLARENCE urrive.l on Thursday, on a visit to the Pat NCEsSIS. The Royal Duke and Duchess left here thus morning for Bushy Park. The Duke and Duche.s of KENT. the Princess ALEXANDRIA, the Pits Cfliol FEuDOR, and their suites, armed here dila morn- ing, to call on the Pnitieesees, on (kir way L. , ) voirthire." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East Indus Ilouse, when the ship Daniro, o f 1,312 tons, Captain U. HAMILTON, was taken up. and stationed for Bombay and China. • The Company's ship Apollo, arrived in Aejir r Roads on the id of August, and found there the Nellie Castle. The Cornwall arrived sit Anjorr tine same day. The Apollo parted company with the Matilda and Cornwall in the night of the VW) 4.f April, in lat. 46 deg. 20 min. North, long. 9 deg. 32 ruin. Wes:. The E ISt India COlllllll/0 ship Mime' s waived •.4 at Andras the Bth July ; she parted company en!, the Rose in squally weather out the 22d May, in lat. 29. S. love. 26. W.—The 7 bonsai Grehrilie arrived at Madras the sth August; she parted company with the Carantic in the night of the 14:11 July, in a heavy gale of wind. The Carmatic ar- rived at Madras a few hours before the Thonics Grenrilk. The kli:ubeth, FIARRISON, from Bombay is London, and Feniseowles, HUMBLE, from Bengal to Liverpool, were totally wrecked at the Cape of ,• Good Hope in October. Cress and most of the it cargoes saved. A letter horn a Correspondent at Newcastle. upon-Tyne, dated the 19th instant, states, that a serious disturbance took place in that town on the preceding eight, occasioned by the misconduct of some Cites-Loyalist', who, in a moment of intoxi. cation, attacked the peaceable inhab tants, sod committed several etas of violence. " The affair," says our Correll lent, " soon became sus se . the Mayor and the principal military officers in the place cause forward, and an express was sent to o.e barracks for the dragoons, who soon appeared. The people were now struck exasperntell. and joined " Scott wise hoe Wolluee bled." Ever) endeavour to persuade them to di-- petite was answered by loud liuzzas. A few •trig- glirig members of Sir Titus. BURDON'S yeomanly showed themselves, but were greeted by such' hisses, arid bursts of laughter as Gioia- erred their horse and they Rion retired. Eke dragoons were occupied its dispersing the people above two hours, as when they fad cleared one place shouts were immediately heard in 'mother. However both soldiers aud people escaped unhurt. Titus were the inhabitants aroused from their beds, and kept in a state of anxiety and alarm dur.. ing several hours, by the prauciug aucrgaliopping of • horses, and the clashing of swords. It is much to be regretted that the constables were not called out instead of the military. as a spirited magistrate, with half a loam of constables, could $OOll hate restored t; peace. bat a certain class of alarmists in this coun- try seta' resolved to imitate the custom its Iteleutis aud at every little fray to nod for the army'. " :elm rdl same