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.~ 1~ 0 5 11 , w liC 1(74 1 - 1 4 • 1.,) \ -7 k 1•1111 ,aogra (It irittob TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1810. NUMBER 2221. PRICE -- _ I.VPERIAL PARLIAMENT. not:SE OF LOADS, * ..101:1111r, MAftell a. ragesient given of late years to lito‘bandry. the fo uler had exerted all his. 16111116 gs end industry, to which might be owieg the vast quantity of barley rows, and which appeared. in conse quence of the prohibition, likely to remain un their bands—that as, in taking farms, they eteco• hued on cuutinuing to enjoy the beevii:s which the laws of their country upproretl to secure to them. during the whole of their tenure, the y felt, that, if those prohibition bills ntre for ever tiatiging over their heads, in terroreas, ittey most, or u.ceisity, uffer pricer for fresh lands, at the ex!nratiun of did? . . lice to to say, that at tio time was big miod affected with any personal enmity, or any personal aniino sity.—( Rem I hear!) The creation immedi ately before the Ijouse was the conduct of Lord Chatham ; whether the accusation against him the Scots Appeal Caine, IVoLharrett (Provost of la s, ; Aud others, r. LYON aad others, Miaars Adam and ver were braid fur the Appellants, and Sir S. Itomilly thr llespontlents.--Forther proceed ins to-morrow. j u i,,,son, from the Loudon hurl' Company, misruled . cr ,..0.t of the receipts and disbulaentents of the Com p), „...0 January I, 111011, to y t, In in Cestrlt rem laird n Petition from the Prisoners f• ur drug in the gaol of Hertford —Ordere&to lie en • was sufficient to ground the sentence of censure which was called lur by pasting these resolutions. He was accused of delivering to His Majesty. on the 13th of January, a Nariatiye of his proceed ings, as Continautler•in 7 Chief in the Expedition. without burin pre6uusly coiniuuricated the %rine bis colleagues. How far this might be blrinril. by nation of its itboropriety. wrs :mother consider tion ; but the Nellie Eel must be entirely, in his t r t sag, Bois die Custom-below, presenteslan account twquailtity uf Grain rnated,by license or ollo•rrisc of the average price ofGratti, from January 3, lousy, • r rend la 191 u DOTI I.LATION IRON I BITION 131 d Rini of t I.llEnlAat.t moved the Order of !),. r 2. Noose guiug item r Committee on l • ant also presented a petttiou agaiost toriegrowers laud land.ostac.re of the el of Ipaaich, is Suffolk. Tht D o t of I.Autmian its swd. in further corr. Winn Of the ruiii , ,tc. tendrimy of this Bill, he o w mo t in their Lurdidtips the &lepton of the rue Jury of the Cau•ity of rite [The Noble a lien read the Rettort alluded to, the principal a-inest in which SAS, CIA the I'a-inets had on sal s rd• quantity of barley, Rte.'? part of which, ,tasequeliee of the wetness UI the harvest, was tit fur any othvr use thin that of distillation— .l by the Prohinition Bill, they ware deprived did itwil.ain of consumption. thay were likely air a severe lots.] The E irl then con urtl—lf, as he 114 d been gieeti to nodesatantl, it 'the iirentiou of the NOide Leta (Bathurst) to ss the thild rem liag of the Bill tu-snorios. hr a id feel it his duty, in it cruse of s.ich extreme eertsnee, to 'suer that further proceedings on it si:IJ he postponed 141 'llititsday—hy which Uwe e l'elittouers agaistst the 'measure would have •ir evidence ia Earl 'LTIIIIIII9 was very ',Orme to allow, that a et qprusity of bailey, as stated by the Noble It!, remained on liaosts.—( I /car later !)--But 41 wit 961.1 +laud that much of don bariey was damaged state, it was periectly 'sir to suppose. It, pv,•o if the pl l)110/MA NitUSSUrle wee, dropped, indeed of pitr , htv.itt;.; the dam tiled 3,1,1,1b0u1.1 do that which was clearly his I,itcrest, Loy up the good Om, ced yam :turd of by the farmer, the basis.% on iwuJ u vast tieitity of cl linseed b Orley. would ftlllll6lll tweedy tVith respect to the Noble Earl's West nil of tuoviug the postponement of the farther neleratitio of the lllCa , ure till Thursday. he aim* • 1111.1 his intention of I,,ingi,,g forward th e to.tnorrow (Tuesday) evening. bad - beet' disa t rad. he thought, as distinctly tut. _ . prownt leases., decre,i.rd io ilropotiloa as their for iner benefits were abridged ; aud, finally. that they never recollectea a year in villa+ the proposed roes sure **swore likely to do mischief, than the present. . - ju guti in, exculpated from every clandestine mo tive. Look at Ins convltini ita every vol.:I of view, yet he must be exculpated from cratiii.ali:y. Re was not intending to justify the vreditude of Lord Chaidasn'a conduct, in withholding such infurma fiats from his colleigues ; but he conceived the amount of his offence was only a venial error. It was very natural that w h en the Noble Lord arrived from the Expeditiou. iu which he had the chief command, libelist which so much Lail been said, Memel". Beaks and Niellol, from Cain4ridg deposed, prinvipidly, that the Ils%t crop or oats was very productive; but, still, in co•istequeitee of the farmers of Norfolk h.tiom by reS , UII of the Prohibition Bill, coufouritcol leerfisig their hoist's with they were likely to have a very pour morket fur their tie.. idenee having withdrataineeals. Williams ad dressed their Lordships at great length. Li code elusion. be observed, that. us the enaunfactiares of Yorkshire and Loneashire—as well as mar colonial coffee, lied faund their *ay, by the regular spring of trade. to the pore of the Continent, he saw no rea son why sugar should be escludvd.—The system now pursued was likely to operrte against one of the most glorious measures ever cloaca by that House—a measure, whi' le gained them, not the applause of any particular set of nun—but of ail arankiad--and which. even the sugar-planters evicuu selves, si sue *orbit bona, should rejoice at ! Loungel hating withdrawn. Earl BaittuasT roes—He said, that, in conse quence of the remarks which had been made on the ohservatio.in he bad addressed to their Lord ships early its the evening. as well as ferim what had been stated in evidence at their bar, he thought It ut cessary to bring forward a Gentleman, then in waiting. (whose name had Siren mentioned 11 the Counsel for the Petitamers,) an support of his al lelvoinns.—He con :Jude , ' by moving. " That the evidessca of Mr. Richard Smiths be heard at their Lo .• khan's Bar." The Earl of LAUDERDALF was astonished at the I ne• of coudnet pursued by the Noble Earl (iaanisrat.) Was it, he would ask, consonant with decorum. was it, °Dissonant 'kith decency, thus to precipitate a measure of vital importance pressed as he was with the magnitude of the mea sure, and the nereosity...ot timber tame, he could move, as an amendment. 6' That ell the %cords after the word' that' be amastleil, and hc fi;llowing sub sti:uterl in their nrom the further proceedingson this Bill be postpensd till Thurralay: t'• Earl B ttituasr observed, that we reason C.llllld, 11 • 42/14 /" 18e. The 440 gad ill...64llloolL:Lebe motion of the Noble Earl. lithe nseasure was, t; ;flf7tf, of the very first importance, tlith it behoved them to examine the evidence within tln it reach, and not, by procrastination. to leave unnave.tigated, at so early a period of the evening, a measure so Ire queutly depicted us of the utmost consequence. The Earl of HAtutowar cools! not see the impropriety which die' Noble Earl (Lauderdale) seemad to think attached to the conduct of hie Noble Friessal (Eail Harrowby). fhe matter was simply this-v-Evidence was called to the bar, to prove a particular case—now, in all eases, there must he two parties.—lf one party has tionsetbing to sell, there roust be another party supposed wil ling to buy.--In the p-went instance. the sellers had brew heard at the her, find he could not see the impropriety of permitting his Noble Fritud to call in ooe of the alleged buyers. to rebut the evidence of the oisposite I a ty. The House miglit after wards use its discretion as to the further proeeed ing. The Earl of LAUDZILDALE said. he would di.- tiuctly state his reasons fir the line of conduct he had pursued. It appeared to him that if the evi dence sought to be produced by the Noble Earl was gone into, it would be only a preliminary mea sure to the deenving tot Petitiouers from bring heard, at length, at the Bar ; be would, therefore, persist iu his amendment. The question was then put on the Earl of HMl nowee'v notion, which was negatived without a dimwit). The Earl of LSODLODALS'Saaseadrueot, for l oottliming the farther proceedings on the 8111 till Tanirsday, was carried. of course.—Adjourned. that he •ho eoussestioicatelu Hos Mcjesty• SOW ristive of all *WA had bren transacted. The No- b!e Lord diJ, on the 15th of January, as the roost proper period in his own judgment, dehver to His Majesty the Narrative in "ration ; and the hlaroe most pressed on thia °mamas was, hi. keeping that commun . '. ation then, and sane time afterwards. a profound.secret. Ilut it wool(' he r , collected, that, mail the ►4th of frinnary, this Nairotsve did not become a public document, mid the,efore he might think himself entitled to keep it cecret till that period. No mass could doubt the honest mo tive., of the Noble Earl. and those motives ought to form a considerable extenuation for say erro neous proceeding. It had been very improperly in iutiated, that the Noble Lori, in nicking those Pig Earl of Ascabstiat perfectly .pgreed with 0 0 NoLie Friend' (f.auderdaila'r) ite to the proirriettr Amite, time hei"og 'granted. tlae this purpooe of re drag ptitiaroi Mild hearing evideuee We the The feeling ag.inKt it ...Ms very general re tbruugli.out Scotland ; aod e iu the course of • day to 0, h r had 110 doubt but he would be called ea to p.eseat aevergl ° pet' im..• froth toot part of the a I o•ltrv. iv E trl of Roo LY !A wade a fe.v o b servations. .pro‘id,l the idea that the distillers would confine leard•es to the purclia'se of the pii,w•• barley, if I markr Ale spirit could be procure() from the thaa 4 eJ, which could he purchased so .roach &ism . . .. . .. Tie Lirl of At. Bea Late said, that, with respect MO* *piing which a Nettle Earl (Bathurst) had astutvi to be 10 generally prevalent, tat, to the third trahvevf the 11:II cowing on to-loortrrw„ he most ob.rrt,, that Ws No')le Frwttil (Lauderdale) was ' • ' Wit 411 privy to 11. A ronv•rontion' hadcrrtainly taken place I;etvieen him (the Earl of Alhemorli) the Noble 2arl (lintliiiri4); but he must die ticetly Fide, that his Noble Friend was not at all sem; , I f it. Tice Earl of LAODCROALE the ight it right to 'tete, that, so far from being privy to any ench frelhig, he could appeal in Several of his Noble Form!'" then present, to whom he had iiiiifurinly eunes.ed his desire. that a bubj•et of such intetc-t, 6841 he einviissed with tho utmost deliberation. &mold clot, therefore, be supposed friendly to O t t lame evidently appear precipitate. The Petition mt the Corn - growers of Lyon, in was theta read, and Mr. tVilliatu•.Cnuc sl the Petittoners, was called to t!..eir Lordships' hat. lbe stated, that, froM the short perintl which hi ht -en allis.Ved hits to prepare himself, he could pre y•e r Lordships but an outline of the ease of clirnts--however, after evidence Is 1 8 1 1 6 ,11 lteml, he would troithle their Lordships with his el.e.vatiors and •r 4 !!!!! Pala. more in detail. lie "1" new merely slaty, that the growth of bailey vo indispeteatilly nectoteury to light soil% and Po" litalarly a. to that of Norfolk—that the system of . 4 r,‘ altar, pursued ill that county could not be for any othcr, *idiom a manifest &to''' . t'llnayZe tuu-t he introduced by the .4 q• t, the real V;eljOil was done sway 0 e'itt 4 e nonla hate a %amend influence on grn.tth o fcons--an.l, tim.llr. have an effect in tandnhi,g the rise of thtir e.ittle. th•nt6. Beech •r, elste.ing. and Bloom. exten- Int tanners, of Noi folk, were next called in and tX4lll,Ur.l—ilia v fully bors not the stateaient of the Igo Cnu , t; -I. In masterr to a number of quer. Wm* fro,f t the Eitrl of Lan,lerrlale, they stated, ge troll., that sh.....io.ortlis of the crop of the boat f were b--fhst Wry hwl , iu fotiller told barley. ertn it s • worse :tats, to these engaged in that Au , 411 I. to the 111,1 of their knowledge. it bad 11. .1 ; ,,, tehn.4- 1 11 fr. / the purpose of raw grain—that, ; 41 ' " rve•trietio u s tust.iutte I, they most new oats I .r h.rl..y. which , hetK , a Ma" ..X.haill‘ting "H. 9 4. % • kily of wheat IA hi.:llcoald be grown ,01.1 ma. Is Ls* thou that grown after - to c .1 trace of the great encos. ! I t- . HOUSE OP COMMONS. A new writ for Windsor leas ordered to he issn..l in the room t Mr. ltamshoitom, who, More his election, had AC. rented the Chiltern Hie Arra', The South Lodi I%•terwork+' 11111 aa• read a second time and commuted. Me. Sheriff iVoon prmented a petitils ae•thtrt the exr tension of the capital of the London Dock I:ouspatiy. On the motion of Attainit Fl . for the seemed read ing of the Sill tar providiug artaimmodatioa for the Jades in Eases. a .1. hair cussed Admiral Harvey, alr. Ram, and Colonel Dcckrt fur the Bill Mr. Western and Mr. W tVynne, :v.:lmo it. I'p.ll, the , . :inegl took place •-- ilw rending ag Arainal Mujulity . An Itteuutit rat uta.•r.d to he brIIII Olt up of the Sugar. impelled haven July taus, to July icr), and the Spirits dm lilted therefrom. _ . . The Home west itito a Committee on the Embezzlement Bill, the report to be brought sip this do) se'unught. THE EARL OF CHATHAM Upon the motion of Mr. Wl!liTlllean the Muse resumed the adjourned debate, on certain re.miii tioav4, proposed on a form-r cl.y, for the reprehen sion of the Earl of Chathow's conduct, in pre3etit fo(• certain Narrative to His !kinkily. General Cut/runt) said, that, in the total ab sence of every personal considenslinn, he ‘‘as in duced to deliver thole sentiments to the I Liu—. which occasioned him to form his opinion on the sub ject before them. Every prison who knew hint, every person in the co•utry, would du him the jus comments which be had done in his Narratiiie. was actuated with a wish to threw odium 'on the naval past of the Expedition ; but he trusted the house would agree with him, that DO . such insidious dis position ought to be imputed. He did not see this question in the same light as gentlemen on ti-e op simile aide of the House; •he did not perceive sorb great cr i 000 nudity in the Noble Earl's conduct, that after arriving in this country, idler all which bed taco place, and knowing what was genervilly stated, he was appreheolive that some inquiry would be eatertansed, sod that a day roVit arrive when he should have to defend his own conduct, and therefore he thought proper to Coo3lllllUROttt ' this Narrative to His Majesty. which would pro- bably tend. in the sequel, to he the best cep's riatiossof the whole transaction, and might eventual ly form that ground on which he could rest his own justification. To bring the Admiral or , the navy too disrepute, was the most foreign any Buts teitu,csouslit be a. fro t ir ad t the clu !us e ! ii , tai ollfeocrd unicorn" %Inouye, he wouht uever bare resorted to such a proceediog. which cowl nave dOrWrilded him below the degree of a driveller. The wh .le of this trioriac tion. about which so much bail barn said, did not subject the *other of that Narrative to the chaive of having acted in a clandestine or 'an insidious manner; sod it was impossible, fawn the intensel evidence, however applied, to support such en ac cusation against the Noble Earl. He was, there fore. pursnaded the House would not procecd, is its candour and liberality, to pronounce such se vere censure, where no one could venture to assert there was any climivahty. Mr. W. Weser observed, that certainly he rte ver bad any personal acquaintsns•e with the Noble Earl, whose conduct was now seder the consithra lion of that House ; he never had any cominuilica tion with him, which could affect the miiiiion he was about to deliver on this subject ;hut lie 'use for the purpose of stating those grown!s upon which lie thought the House was called upon to pronounce its coucurreits•e with the resolutions proposed. In respect to their own dignity, as a House of Com mons, ever watchful ef the principles of the Con stitution. these resolutions ought to pass. Gentle men on the other side had certainly indulged in ar. guinviits of a different tendency ; they had assert ed, tinit this was ■ subject. though regarding the fundamental principles on who 11 the Constitution rested, unfit for their discussion. If the House could agree to this doctrine, what would he the re stiq ? When a Counuinder and a Privy Coun sellor shall keep tweret what ought to be communi cited, and deliver to His Majesty the iuformation he possews vs Commanderon-Chief, and with holds the same from those v ith whom he ought to consult for the nation's welfare, and the House. having such conduct submitted to their imestiga tian. were to vote for the previous question, it would oauctioa such a proceeding: it would not even prmunince that such a truusu•tion was erro neous, but it would dieter it to Ire allowable. A comet miler, on any future occasion, pl•iced io sis wider i ire .tames, wuul.l lee teuipteil to emulate the csomple ; for, in the prortedisi A s of this House to-isiglit, lie would tin•l a precedent that it was al lowable. No doctrine, he enalcoiired. could lie wore dinigercu- lii its effect■. Perhaps this poor,. asii4lit lie called a report, which Lord Chatham made in a private manner to His Majesty. and that it bright not to be heated as a communice. tion of a puhl:t• nature. But he could not Una ghat how it could be ronsilered as it private pa per, delivered by the Noble Earl, study as a Peer, for it was c• noisily a padie report of public tiimsactim iii, limb therefore, it was iiin.ossitile not to proiloulite it a public document. Ii hod hero alle,,oed, that the Narrative had out 5 ....,,,,, e d a public couples's'', 11l the 14th of I - 4.min, but he did hot believe the House• wseila ac goiewe in the validity et Ws atgowice. 11•• w slid this •itliet.l first prey lit it-elf to dui• • oreider otion ? %VI.) it/ such a way as enjoined th, i i i to pionounee their opsotoo, for the rail iii il'haili on, in the course of his eviden , v, smelts this to hat: bean the fade; and admits, without any thing tq emit* the baked truth, of what was now stated again him. Then was it allowable there should be such a violation of the Constitution? no ; nor would he believe that a majority of that House would se far relic qutsh their character. as not to signify theit reprehension. Mr. ST1111Z14—" Sir, the question I conceive to be of the greatest importance, as it affects the chne meter of the Noble Eat) whose conduct is brought under our conederatium It is for us to determine whether we will, in the capacity of a House of Common., pronounce the Earl of Chatham guilty of a violation of the Constitution of the country. 1 courts*, Sir. I cannot go so far; I cannot bring myself to liclieve that so much censure is due. No censure can be nuire severe, for it will not ouly proscribe the Noble Earl, as unfit to take any part iu His Majesty's counsels, but it will terminate all the prospects of hia political life. I do lint feel consistently with the uccusatiosi. Because. Sir, if there was so much meson for representation, in this transaction, it ought to have insisted ou the charge myself warranted to the iollicto of vo much pu nishment, where Aft accusation itself duce not de clare the commiasioo of crime. In the charge itself I do not tied that the Noble Earl is accused of any dark or insidious conduct, I do toot find that he was emploted in any attempt to poison the ear of His Sovereign. I Mid, on the contrary, that the sub stance of the charge again e him amount: to no more than his presenting a certain parr to His Majesty. untwist having communicated the same to those renewers he 1,411 requiredluadvise with and consult. But shall this imeropriett warrant the greatest se verity ? Really, Sir, I cannot agree, that we ate authorized to pronounce Lord Chatham guilty of an intention to 'white the principles of the Constitu tion. To mentiou that there was nay ill iastdi otu intended on his part, is not to meat thequestion, and then I should have had it tu my power to op pose the present motion by so unateeverable ergu meet ; Tor all the evidence has Dot ken gone into which Is necessity, before tits can support such su ullegatiou. In that case there would not have larva the shadow of pretext for persisting in the diem.- elfin at present, because that would bete hest, the only proper peeled, when a eharge iosidieustess could have deasentled our deterieinatiots. With respect to the charge VI it now 'tames, south! Lull ?pee my Learned Friends on the other side et the House to &nue die mature of it according to the bin of the Lied. I think it a subject which requires • the definition of law to wake it more clearly uuder e stood. I only require, that if this charge is found ed upon constitutional and legal authority, that the low should be statad. Where is the charter, where is there any statute, where lb there any rule laid down by Is gal and grave authority, where is there limy poinciple to be found, elect) alines this Ong act of Lord Chatham, to be bovele to the cons stitution ? Whoever should offend agdrait - ieS -- leas and princ iples would no aught he guilty of o great dereiteticay of duty ; but Icanuct perceive each offence iti the Noble Earl. Ism rot to sa y . he was correct m what he did; I are rot prepared to exceteiate Ins couduct fr o m inetropriety, nor would 1 venture to say there was nothing °Nettie:- eke or erroneous in the conduct. I thiak on the contrary be acted errtmeously, and lu a seminars which, I mast say, was very objectionable. But still I ilo not feel justified to pronounce, that he has been guilty of a liese Mick against the fnorle mental principles of the eoustitotine. Such con- • duet may be terms.) injerious to the coo.titution, but it (hies aot therefore follow, that we ought to consider the Noble Lord guilty of a wick-d mten tioo to bring about its subversinu. There are many things in themeeli,a wr rig and injurious in ;heir evidency, and yet no a rivets charge can he made against those eho even count,- mince and support them. For instance. 'emery is in its consequences injurious to the Constitue tion ; but if any Hottourable Member opposite were in the habit of gene; sumptenus and splruchd entertainments, was he nn that nccount to be charged eith a breech and violation of the laws of the constitatitin ? (Hear ! hear! and a loud laugh.) Party spirit and those cabuls and com binations inuouget gentlemen opposite (hied crier of hear ! hear! hear !) I think Sir 1 have tonchel string which ates. (Repeated cries of hear.' hear! hear !) There can be so doubt. Sir, that such party spirit, such cabals and combinations, are uncoitstitu tlotsel; and I know oinothing more injurious in its conawreacesi. 13ot yet those honourable gentlemen opposite. would be very unwilling to admit, That such couduct requires their beitig censored for vio lating the best principles of the Constitution. If this cissestion. Sir, be this night priest d upon the tircisiou of the Holm . . I am bound to decleri, justice to Lord Olathe's, as a Gnash !Attlee, independent of eve 7 other coesiderat Cu', that I shall give. My negative to the residuum's. There is another ground el objection to the present mo tion, which regards the time when the arcusat:oe is made ; aed I do not consider it a fit period to form our ju iginent upon the Noble Earl's con duct. If we recur to the pest, every one most allow that he has been extmosely injured in tee opinion of the country. We cauuot hat remember the stones eshali wire circulated, and the clamour which was raise) go injurions to his eltarecier ae Conarnender of the Expeditiou. Such is the ten dency of any clamour, wheo the execctatom of 011 public runs high, and that expectation terminates iD clisappeiistesent, it makes little matter where the blame may or might to br terra of cen. detonation sereads anti is did:tried through ih. I cmightsquir. thing of ile• thee . a: tie trine, I most say. when I la% my hetet wee,. my 11, ar. that fiord Chatt;eans Ine, to. n to. it , s, , jibry, Mid that he Mae walled L., r muneretior. Agein, wheti I tr -7 part of the c educe of tier Nol.Ye Earl, I trite-t hedger, Id o oat e , "th e Owe ts room to ellkirl evco a plausible ground fur